Example sentences of "of we [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | P.S. Would you please , please , put Jennifer Capriati in your Sweetspot in the next issue for all of us Capriati fans out her . |
| 2 | By contrast the Sergeant Major has already finished , and is jogging on the spot with an air of contempt for the rest of us mere mortals . |
| 3 | Plus , for the rest of us mere mortals : Boat race fever , a month to go … and counting . |
| 4 | When Harold Skimpole declares to him that ‘ The owners of such places as Chesney Wold … are public benefactors … good enough to maintain a number of delightful objects for the admiration and pleasure of us poor men ’ , Sir Leicester receives the compliment as no more than his due . |
| 5 | Between the two of us clever bastards , we 've opened the bloody door , that 's what ! |
| 6 | For the rest of us wanting function as well as fashion , they measure up fairly well . |
| 7 | My parents were too poor to be able to give one another a birthday present each year , though there was always a present for each of us four children , Stanley , Laura , Edith and myself . |
| 8 | All of us young people , even unbelievers , had been taking an interest in Thomism . |
| 9 | We know it 's none of us new boys , so — ’ |
| 10 | He fussed for a while over a large teapot , pouring both of us outsize cups of tea . |
| 11 | Some exorcisms , for example , describe conditions which today would be thought of us mental illness or , in some cases , epilepsy . |
| 12 | Of us suffering children , under such strain , |
| 13 | I go into them and make faces at all the animals and ask them what they think of us daft humans standing there staring at them . |
| 14 | Surely God is more aware than any of us that marriage involves two basically selfish sinners in a commitment to each other . |
| 15 | We worked very hard , and most of us that season appeared in Oxford at least twice . |
| 16 | We used to some of us other boys we 'd go down to the banks and the Winter time . |
| 17 | ‘ Well , it comes to all of us one way or another . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Must come for all of us one day . ’ |
| 19 | When the grandmother was in her eighties and widowed , ‘ we went religiously one of us each day , one sister and another , each day . |
| 20 | This is a typical list of waste produced by every one of us each year . |
| 21 | In a limited way we can understand this , because for all of us certain dates stand out with striking significance . |
| 22 | The three of us remaining thought it would be simple to replace him but , after various attempts , failed to do so . |
| 23 | Thank you again for your efforts keeping all of us far-flung graduates in touch and thanks too for considering my seconding of Anne 's proposal . |
| 24 | He well deserved the sentence he got , but to many of us five life sentences do not seem quite enough for what he did to our youngsters . |
| 25 | ‘ Their strongest disagreement , at least in public , is about the origin of us modern humans . |
| 26 | But he would be shocked and saddened by how utterly selfish most of us so-called Christians are at Christmas when there is so much hunger and grief in the world . |
| 27 | Well , as Messrs Waugh and Ingrams could confirm , that 's just the sort of treacherous , duplicitous behaviour one has come to expect from young people today ( just as this shameless betrayal of an employee is typical of us incipient oldsters ) . |
| 28 | ‘ And he 'll tell you that each of us would-be Marines is one in a million — one in a billion — except for he who sets himself above the rest of his brothers ; and that one is less . ’ |
| 29 | I simply wanted just to intervene at this point Moderator er there , before we get into a debate on section four , just to remind the assembly that we have a heavy volume of business still ahead of us this afternoon . |
| 30 | Somebody once said that if angelism , sharing the gospel was one beggar telling another beggar about bread , where it could be found and undoubtedly when he was saying that he was thinking of that story that account that we had read to us earlier from the second book of kings , chapter seven , and I 'd like us to er turn back to us for a few moments this morning and perhaps draw some lessons for ourselves Sometimes as Christians its very easier for us to say what sins are , and we can see other people 's failings , you do n't have to be a Christian to do that of course , plenty of other people can do that , they see the failings of other people , they see the wrong doing they do , they see their wickedness their , their waywardness , whatever words we want to use to describe it , and we say well that is sin , perhaps for most of us this morning we could make er a list a , a , a tabulate a table of sins and we might say well they are worse sins and there are lesser sins and I would I suppose by and large there would be a fairly reasonable consensus of opinion regarding what was sins and what were not sins . |