Example sentences of "we from the [noun sg] " 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 | 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 |
6 | 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 ) . |
7 | The old cry , familiar to us from the Exodus stories , now goes up again . |
8 | David says : ‘ After it finished , 18 of us from the course decided to carry on meeting but then everyone went their separate ways . |
9 | I and the one other passenger viewed the landscape through the grill dividing us from the driver , the mail , bottles of milk and newspapers . |
10 | Nigel Dudding , you 're speaking to us from the bar at erm Henley Rugby Club , what was the atmosphere there , watching the game ? |
11 | Let us take the usable answers ( a ) — ( f ) for Question 2 and determine what antecedents and consequences are known to us from the text . |
12 | No front garden , just two feet of concrete between the house and the pavement , with a little wall to separate us from the road . |
13 | They had first spied us from the balcony of ‘ their ’ room . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | He can defend us , can separate us from the past , from the concentration camps and lost wars . |
16 | Collectors would give anything for the chance to hear him project his art to us from the clarity of a recording studio . |
17 | Loans frequently come straight back to us from the purchase of Western goods . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | Queen Margaret and Catesby glowered at us from the head of the table . |
21 | Jamie snarls at us from the pillow . |
22 | Well that 's thursday behind us and there 's now only one day separating us from the weekend . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | 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 . |
25 | He 's taking us from the airport to what is locally down as the Darth Vader Hotel . |
26 | A Zim motor-car took us from the airport to the Europe Hotel which is just off the Nevsky prospekt , the wide main street of Leningrad . |
27 | The cabbie , who drove us from the airport to our hotel , had spent some time in Oxford and London . |
28 | The hostel staff advised us about the best areas for walking , and also arranged for the essential guide , to keep us on the right path and to protect us from the buffalo . |
29 | I suppose that was to fool anyone watching us from the river bank . |
30 | ‘ Perhaps you 'd like to tell us from the beginning , ’ said Montgomery softly . |