Example sentences of "some [prep] we " in BNC.
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| 1 | we 're gon na do some between us . |
| 2 | Save some for us , Fatso ! ’ said Meg the shrew . |
| 3 | Can you get some for us ? ’ |
| 4 | Harvey insisted that he must have coffee as well as brandy , and although the big Espresso machine had been cleaned and stopped the plump waitress went off to fix some for us . |
| 5 | We have also followed his preparations for the world title bout with Karpov , some of us , it must be confessed , with a certain amount of incredulity , since , however much these world championship matches are now dependent on stamina rather than brilliance , it has struck more than a few people that a chess player is not a footballer , in particular a fifty-year-old self-exiled Russian Grandmaster is not a footballer , and that to think that by training like one he will become as fit is not only an illusion , it is a dangerous illusion . |
| 6 | Some of us have responsibilities . |
| 7 | ‘ Now , ’ said Marion , ‘ some of us must go back to that poor girl and put her decently in order . |
| 8 | In effect , the alternatives presented to the ‘ counter-culture ’ by the liminal experience were also available to some of us in our marginal police world , and we were forced to see that those concepts of order and disorder we had once taken almost as the natural way of things were in fact only one model for society ; a single framework for social action ! |
| 9 | Some of us knew what that meant by then . |
| 10 | To close , I should like to quote from a source that especially some of us find more authoritative than a business man . |
| 11 | Some of us are stuck with it . ’ |
| 12 | It holds more true of some of us than of others , that in the struggle to make it new we are writing the same book all our lives ; and with Dostoevsky this truth is very true . |
| 13 | Glenys Ingham of Deptford constituency women 's section said : ‘ Some of us feel very angry about the way the system of submitting speakers ’ cards is being used to stop us being called . ’ |
| 14 | Neil Kinnock trying to end his 3min 25sec standing ovation ‘ Some of us are worried that the conference may trough too early . ’ |
| 15 | What some of us have come to expect from Jack Charlton can not always be adequately defined : obdurate , quick-tempered , argumentative but unfailingly loyal and never less than a man . |
| 16 | ‘ They are the ones who invited Mr Adams to address them just 500 yards from the Grand Hotel which some of us have cause to remember ; to address them less than two weeks after the time when , along the coast at Deal , 10 young musicians in the Royal Marines were foully murdered . |
| 17 | Some of us remember all too well what happened in the 1920s and 1930s when we allowed our hopes for a peaceful world to outrun our judgements on the need for defence . |
| 18 | The practical implications of these matters are very real and may escape some of us microwave aces , for example . |
| 19 | Some of us wondered about the moths . |
| 20 | Some of us , including Beth , sat in the front row . |
| 21 | 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 ) . |
| 22 | We got very good but there was hardly a week when some of us was n't killed . |
| 23 | Some of us might be young unmarried girls , others aged ladies of 40 or 50 . |
| 24 | Ask them if they are working-class or middle-class , and they tell you ‘ This is our fate , sister , to work , to slave , in Pakistan too some of us had to do the hard , hard work on the fields . |
| 25 | Some of us have to work at night and sleep during the day . |
| 26 | Why are some of us ‘ larks ’ and others ‘ owls ' ? |
| 27 | As discussed in Chapter 7 , ageing increases the tendency for us to become ‘ larks ’ — and some of us are ‘ larks ’ anyway — because the body clock has then a free-running period that is below the average for the population as a whole . |
| 28 | Some of us even enjoy the political battles , provided we win a few . |
| 29 | Everyone likes an occasional splurge , some of us — like Imelda Marcos ( she of the 3,000 pairs of shoes and 500 bras ) — more than others . |
| 30 | And , while a little pressure can do us good — without it some of us might n't even bother to slither out from under the Slumberdown in the mornings — too much is definitely a bad thing . |