Example sentences of "[prep] we the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Below us the forest of Dividal is visible . |
| 2 | Down below us the river was gleaming . |
| 3 | Below us the broad terraces of Hatshepsut 's temple were set into the curving amphitheatre of the cliffs . |
| 4 | Below us the landscape shone in great brown-and-white patterns like the coat of a well-groomed piebald horse . |
| 5 | Below us the lights of the City did what they were good at , they just sat there and twinkled . |
| 6 | To a number of us the crucial omission was any help for industry , which was going through an appalling time . |
| 7 | ‘ Now , the more they see of us the less they like us . ’ |
| 8 | Many people find it hard to counter the argument of ‘ people before buildings ’ that the Church puts forward , even though for most of us the visible presence of a church — whether still in religious use or not — is an important and reassuring symbol of faith to all who pass by . |
| 9 | Ahead of us the tall pines that stretch out across the frozen plain of Estonia distinguished themselves from the snow-coated sky and earth . |
| 10 | Many professional travellers say that there is nowhere left to travel , but for most of us the old maxim that anywhere is new if you have not been there before , is true , and there are plenty of places left to escape to . |
| 11 | Looking back , it seems a marvel that the houses surrounding the Greencroft were never set on fire — the residents must have suffered very anxious hours , but for the rest of us the sight of so many fires all blazing away was one never forgotten . |
| 12 | For most of us the uphill battle to avoid a downhill slide is one of the uphill battle to avoid a downhill slide is one of the hardest challenges in a sport where yesterday was a long time ago . |
| 13 | Sadly nothing can be cone without ideas , and ideas need people to produce them , so I extend an appeal to all the people who may read this and pray that God might give each of us the sight to see where we are needed .. |
| 14 | You must know how he 'd give any of us the moon after he 's been — not himself . ’ |
| 15 | It contained much of what the country needs to get out of recession but not enough to give any of us the confidence to believe that the recovery is about to begin . |
| 16 | For most of us the mental picture of an experiment goes back to school laboratories . |
| 17 | We have already looked at some aspects of what makes each one of us the distinctive , uniquely individual people that we are . |
| 18 | Ahead of us the land fell away , became green , then brown , then evolved into a crazed fretwork of islands and sea-lochs , lakes and strange peaks . |
| 19 | To most of us the location of boundaries is self-evident but , surprisingly , boundaries of an object are far from obvious in the raw visual image which consists of a continuously varying distribution of light intensities across the retina . |
| 20 | We had been eight weeks in basic training and even in the most placid of us the qualities of self preservation and selfishness were coming to the surface . |
| 21 | For many of us the practice was sternly discouraged in our childhood and , without doubt , many of us still feel embarrassed or ashamed by our own " indulgence " . |
| 22 | Perhaps the book of lamentation is not the book you normally turn to , to find words of encouragement , but there are tremendous encouragements to be found in it , listen what the profits says there , in the third chapter , he says this I recall to my mind , and he 's talking about the time of his own affliction , the time when he is going through it , the time when nobody loves him , the time when everybody 's against him , when he 's suffering and he 's in pain the time when life is full of bitterness for him , he says this I recall to my mind , therefore I have hope , the lords loving kindness indeed never ceases for his compassion 's never fail and here Jesus is demonstrating that , he 's compassion 's never fail , he 's loving kindnesses they never cease , here in his dying hour Jesus is showing that in reaching out to this man but as we said the other week the , the deepest , the most important significance of what Jesus did then , of what Jesus said then , its not just of the historical account , but that he is able and willing to say and to do exactly the same today in your experience and in mine , what he did for that man on the cross he 's ready and willing to do for every one of us the incident may of happened nineteen hundred years ago , but there 's the old hymn , the verse reminds us , picks out that very story and it says the dying thief rejoiced to see that fountain in his day and there may I , though via us he wash all my sins away , and that verse from William Cowper 's hymn , it takes up that great historical event , that tremendous happening in that man 's life and he links it with a present and it applies it to you and to me and says this can be our experience as well . |
| 23 | Every step forward requires of us the abandonment of the past . |
| 24 | Suddenly we were into daylight and right ahead of us the waters of the Jequetepeque ran brown and white , the river 's level close under the rails of the girder bridge as it flowed , deep and very fast , through the gorge . |
| 25 | An African nationalist commented to some of us the other day , ‘ When we take over , we may get rid of a lot of white people — but we want Don and Penny to stay . ’ |
| 26 | We have grown used to some kind of safety net , extended beneath us in Western countries , even if for some of us the holes seem to be getting bigger by the day . |
| 27 | Although he may not agree with what I have said , and what I am about to say , he should at least extend to all of us the courtesy of sitting quietly in his seat , especially if he joins us at such a late time . |
| 28 | We wended our way home , glowing with triumph ( and blood pressure ! ) , each of us the proud possessor of a plastic , imitation silver , trophy . |
| 29 | I hope , then , that this report on those who matriculated in 1966 will give some of us the opportunity to renew some of those special friendships — formed at a peculiarly impressionable time of our lives — with those with whom we have failed to keep in touch . |
| 30 | I I do n't mind , but I 'm opposing , as like the rest of us the budget in |