Example sentences of "[prep] we at " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Ania Loomba puts it , in relation to colonialist studies , ‘ the neglect of histories surrounding native insubordination either devalues or romanticises the latter , or worse , tends to read colonised subjects through linguistic or psychoanalytic theories which , for some of us at least , remain suspiciously and problematically shot through with ethnocentric assumptions whose transfer to all subalterns is unacceptable ’ ( ‘ Overworlding ’ , cited from manuscript ) . |
| 2 | I 'd heard the voice of an angel — and when a meeting was eventually arranged between David and myself , through NEMS ' who were handling both of us at the time , I expected a very pimply youth to be standing there . |
| 3 | If this was true for Stendhal at the beginning of the 19th century , it remains so for increasing numbers of us at the end of the 20th . |
| 4 | This is an absolute treasure house for any editor or writer unsure of a common foreign phrase , an abbreviation , or the spelling of a tricky name — which means all of us at one time or another . |
| 5 | She was of course famous for her powers of observation ; she was better than any of us at using the mirrors which she had had installed everywhere to keep an eye on everything that was happening , or was about to happen and might need averting . |
| 6 | Even by World War II most of us at school were learning about atoms inductively , and only in the higher classes . |
| 7 | Most of us at any age enjoy a good chat , but in how many Homes do you see small groups of residents talking to each other ? |
| 8 | As Betty summed up the situation : ‘ It is just the two of us at home alone . |
| 9 | Indeed , I believe that inklings of this understanding , ‘ Intimations of the Infinite ’ , are experienced by many of us at least once in a lifetime and are available to all if we can simply open our hearts to the inward life which is calling us , but is obscured by the continuous dazzle and activity of our own superficial minds and senses . |
| 10 | We are all of us at the mercy of our adrenaline , and there is a very fine dividing line between being justifiably keyed up and ready to do your best and being rendered helpless by panic . |
| 11 | Television in every home may be a blessing for the old and infirm , indeed for all of us at times , but that , the motor car , foreign travel and umpteen other things have all combined to affect attitudes towards sport and leisure . |
| 12 | All of us at this time began to understand what was meant by the scripture : ‘ Zeal for your house consumes me . ’ |
| 13 | Dietary fibre is the substance which makes the waste matter from the food we eat pass through us and out of us at the desirable , speedy , natural rate . |
| 14 | GROWING OLD is a terrible business for most of us at the best of times . |
| 15 | Below are a few tips from all of us at RUNNING Magazine to help you as the hours count down . |
| 16 | ‘ It was lovely that Cuan was thinking of us at that time , ’ said Mrs Over . |
| 17 | The back is a delicate instrument , and so finely tuned that nearly everyone of us at some time has experienced some sort of back problem . |
| 18 | And that negotiation affects every one of us at this table . |
| 19 | Perhaps the reason for the comic success of such characters is that they help us to recognise the prejudice which exists in all of us at so many different levels about so many different things . |
| 20 | I leave you to enjoy all these and more but not before all of us at MKM have wished you a ‘ Happy Christmas ’ . |
| 21 | ‘ I wanted to have one of us at the house . ’ |
| 22 | If our intuitions differ , one of us at least is wrong , but we may be unable to find out which . |
| 23 | Confident youth may never imagine a world like this in a million Sundays , but these pictures tell it like it is for by far the majority of us at one time or other ; and I defy anyone to say that it could not be them — be they so lucky as still to be climbing when approaching 80 . |
| 24 | All of us at John Fowler Holidays will be pleased to see you at any time and hope to have the pleasure of giving you a good holiday . |
| 25 | The main need , however , is to bring the two sides somehow together , since all of us at one time or another need help from both of them . |
| 26 | They do n't take any notice of us at all . |
| 27 | ‘ The mugs who were ahead of us at the hotel , Fatso . |
| 28 | None of us at the moment is prepared to spend — probably waste — our time trying to find out . |
| 29 | A gutsy but vulnerable underdog who swiped the prince and was still one of us at the end of it . |
| 30 | And although it takes a while to recover from such fear , for most of us at least , it does eventually subside . |