Example sentences of "the rest [prep] we [adv] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 The rest of us just had knowledge .
2 Two-thirds of my male friends have got married , and the rest of us just sit around in the pub all weekend .
3 The rest of us just dabble in it .
4 Jason says : ‘ Gary 's got more money than the rest of us because he gets publishing royalties for the songs he 's written , but the rest of us just get a modest wage . ’
5 and those in advantageous positions , the rest of us just do n't count .
6 ‘ She invited my friend ; we … the rest of us just tagged along . ’
7 Only the truly virtuous strip their tack and clean it every time it 's used — the rest of us simply do n't have time .
8 They do n't know anything about life , so they come and tell the rest of us how to live it . ’
9 Enough has been revealed about the antics of the Monarchy in the past few weeks to suggest that people in palaces should not be trying to tell the rest of us how to behave .
10 Accountants would always be kept busy showing the rest of us how to work the system .
11 But it was its political and artistic daring , enhanced by the most attractively human of values , that the rest of us so admired — ‘ those little films ’ , someone very accurately said , ‘ which are , as if by accident , important . ’
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