Example sentences of "of us [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the rest of us wanting function as well as fashion , they measure up fairly well . |
| 2 | Some exorcisms , for example , describe conditions which today would be thought of us mental illness or , in some cases , epilepsy . |
| 3 | Surely God is more aware than any of us that marriage involves two basically selfish sinners in a commitment to each other . |
| 4 | We worked very hard , and most of us that season appeared in Oxford at least twice . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , it comes to all of us one way or another . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Must come for all of us one day . ’ |
| 7 | When the grandmother was in her eighties and widowed , ‘ we went religiously one of us each day , one sister and another , each day . |
| 8 | This is a typical list of waste produced by every one of us each year . |
| 9 | The three of us remaining thought it would be simple to replace him but , after various attempts , failed to do so . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ Good , because those were exactly the orders for both of us this morning . |
| 14 | I suppose if I come around and ask each one of us this morning , can you give a definition ? |
| 15 | To some of us Christian Aid Week means treats like home-made bread and ‘ date chews ’ for tea . |
| 16 | The author of what I later discovered to be a scholarly , if tendentious , account of us foreign policy since Korea , he expressed a fastidious regret for the instruments America had to work through but justified the excesses of the client governments by reference to the worse alternative of Marxist dictatorship . |
| 17 | ‘ Given to one or other of us last night . |
| 18 | and er , well what they were saying on bus cos he had a sleep just in front of us last night , somebody said we 're Park Row and they said oh he 's asleep in front there , well that was him you see , so I reckon he comes from there , see I mean , the rest must have just come in here or King 's Lynn , well if they fell out |
| 19 | But that 's how the form twos thought of us last year as well load of rabble . |
| 20 | In the end I saw that there was no way he would accept this treatment , and that it was doing both of us more harm than good . |
| 21 | So after a fortnight , thereabouts , the union had a meeting and decided that everybody in the industry like , which of course there was only about a thousand of us any way , everybody would s would stop until this man could start at work . |
| 22 | These occasions , so far as I could tell , brought neither of us any pleasure . |
| 23 | Either Germany should revalue upwards to give the rest of us some breathing room or Britain , France and Italy should combine in a joint downward realignment . |
| 24 | After all , learning suggests to most of us some degree of understanding , some conscious comprehension of the problem to be solved . |