Example sentences of "we from the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jennifer how far are we from the sun ? |
| 2 | The carnage endured in the last 20 years or so has mainly arisen not from what we from the mainland have done and/or been alleged to do , but from the conflict brought about by ineradicable sectarian fears and ambitions . |
| 3 | Because quite often erm we 've our birthday presents have n't we from the stuff we see in the sale after , the Christmas stuff for the girls . |
| 4 | So we 're going to see it are we from the flat ? |
| 5 | ‘ How far are we from the marshes ? ’ asked the officer . |
| 6 | In fact we had a letter did n't we from the neighbourhood watch co-ordinator saying that she sort of goes on patrol when she takes the dog a walk |
| 7 | Five years after the revolution Lenin complained that the Communist Party had good political control only over the top echelons of the vast bureaucracy : ‘ Down below , however , there are hundreds of thousands of old officials who came to us from the Tsar and from bourgeois society and who , sometimes consciously and sometimes unconsciously , work against us ’ ( quoted in Merkl , 1977 , pp. 166–7 ) . |
| 8 | The old cry , familiar to us from the Exodus stories , now goes up again . |
| 9 | David says : ‘ After it finished , 18 of us from the course decided to carry on meeting but then everyone went their separate ways . |
| 10 | I and the one other passenger viewed the landscape through the grill dividing us from the driver , the mail , bottles of milk and newspapers . |
| 11 | I can remember and I think the rest of us from the Three-Ninetieth can remember when there were very little time when we had it this quiet . |
| 12 | Nigel Dudding , you 're speaking to us from the bar at erm Henley Rugby Club , what was the atmosphere there , watching the game ? |
| 13 | Let us take the usable answers ( a ) — ( f ) for Question 2 and determine what antecedents and consequences are known to us from the text . |
| 14 | Today , the medical establishment , in both Britain and America , is of the opinion that dietary fibre is of value in protecting us from the diseases of modern Western civilization . |
| 15 | No front garden , just two feet of concrete between the house and the pavement , with a little wall to separate us from the road . |
| 16 | They had first spied us from the balcony of ‘ their ’ room . |
| 17 | After all , that is the first thing about us that others see and a well-groomed , well-dressed image reflected back at us from the mirror goes a long way to bolstering our private and public confidence . |
| 18 | He can defend us , can separate us from the past , from the concentration camps and lost wars . |
| 19 | Collectors would give anything for the chance to hear him project his art to us from the clarity of a recording studio . |
| 20 | ‘ A reminder of how Bartholomew saved us from the assassins , and a warning of our own deaths . ’ |
| 21 | Loans frequently come straight back to us from the purchase of Western goods . |
| 22 | The absurdity became clearer if one imagined twenty or thirty writers from another era occupying the air-conditioned coach that took us from the Hyde Park Regis to the Riverside . |
| 23 | During the day we lay up in the desert , camouflaging ourselves with pieces of hessian sacking against the R.A.F. patrols who were out looking for us from the air . |
| 24 | The four of us stand watching each other in the dark street while the laughing crowd drifts past us from the pub 's side door . |
| 25 | Queen Margaret and Catesby glowered at us from the head of the table . |
| 26 | Jamie snarls at us from the pillow . |
| 27 | Well that 's thursday behind us and there 's now only one day separating us from the weekend . |
| 28 | ‘ He liberated us from the Turks and fought for our independence , ’ said a small boy who waited at the quayside amid a jostling crowd of former monarchs , visiting Serbian bishops and television crews . |
| 29 | Two pretexts were given for the failure to release us from the airport : that one of the mares wore a head-collar with an obviously masculine name embossed , and that one of the fillies ’ passports was stamped GONE TO STUD . |
| 30 | A charming Chinese member of staff greeted us and took us from the airport to Robert Black College which was to be our home for four months . |