Example sentences of "which [prep] us " in BNC.

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31 Which of us can afford to forgo a chance like that in these troubled times ? ’
32 I wonder which of us has Yorkist sympathies .
33 Which of us does ? ’
34 ‘ I 'm not sure which of us is in worse condition at the moment ! ’
35 ‘ Lucy , darling , you may be a married , pregnant lady five years my senior , but I honestly wonder which of us is the most gullible and naïve ! ’
36 ‘ So which of us do you like better ? ’ he asked silkily .
37 ‘ And then we will decide which of us is right . ’
38 ‘ We will see which of us lasts the longer .
39 Which of us do not find it convenient on occasions to count on our fingers ?
40 A mother penguin can find her very own youngster in a colony of several thousand , even after many days at sea , having left the young one to mill around on the ice with thousand of others which to us appear to be identical .
41 The instructions state that water will be split by the current into Pranavayu and Udanavayu — which to us is Oxygen and Hydrogen .
42 Premack 's tests ( Premack 1976 ) to establish that chimpanzees make rudimentary connections between ‘ states of affairs ’ ( in order not to beg the more refined question of objectuality within them ) which to us appear closely connected by virtue of a cause and an effect , or by virtue of an implicit goal or problem and a means or stratagem , seem to the layman to support attributions to chimps of protean correlates of human categories of thought .
43 What such critics for their part fail to realize is just how difficult scientific research actually is , how complex the testing of any even seemingly trivial hypothesis or hunch may be , and how many paradoxes and seeming mysteries we confront every day in our research which to us are at least as challenging as , but theoretically more relevant than , fretting about probably untestable phenomena like ESP .
44 We had no means of communication with the people in the mountains , which to us were as remote as Tibet , and the doctor had not ventured there again ; in fact he was now in great danger .
45 It would have made it more difficult , but the way that Maxwell used to involve himself in bulk transfers , you know and move , move two hundred pensioners from there to there and er no money followed and this sort of thing , I think that er that he could of quite frankly done exactly the same thing and we really feel that the , that the role of the pension regulator and the and the opposing role with I M R O that , that you really if we 're not careful , we 're going to put in another layer of bureaucracy and have a pension regulator who 's got the task of of checking a , a hundred and twenty eight thousand pension funds , when really there 's probably out of those a hundred and twenty eight thousand , ninety-nine point five per cent of probably being very well well run and , and quite safe and what , what we ca n't really see in the report is a is a method of identifying the determined fraudster at a at a very early stage , you know and we 're just terribly disappointed that er that Good has just thrown the whole of , of the matter back at I M R O who we feel have proved to tha that I do n't think they 're up to the task , I think that the that the whole question of er of the power of a self regulatory body which to us works on blowing the whistle , you know the whole the whole effect of a self regulatory body is that it 's members that it , it 's really like a club is n't it , you know and we 're all members of this club and if one of us er is gon na do something wrong , then the rest of us are gon na have to pay for it .
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