Example sentences of "[prep] we from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he did this a Maltese feller started striding slowly but purposefully towards us from the back of the club . |
| 2 | There were some hill-walkers with ice-axes coming towards us from the other side of the hill , and I was trying to look as though I meant to come hill-walking dressed like a hairdresser 's receptionist . |
| 3 | It came rolling towards us from the west . |
| 4 | The island was spread in front of me , outrigger canoes paddling towards us from the silver beaches lined with tall , bending palm trees and feathery casuarinas , while , behind , the green volcanic mountains rose until they seemed to meet the sky . |
| 5 | I date the present coldness of Turkey towards us from the expulsion of the Axis from North Africa . |
| 6 | ‘ My singing career sort of got off the ground through the show too because it was when a few of us from the show got together to sing at a benefit concert for a football club in Australia that I first publicly sang ‘ The Locomotion . ’ |
| 7 | Many of us from the so-called developed countries are engaged in advising developing countries on their rural and other development problems . |
| 8 | I hope the majority of regular readers of this column appreciate a broad spectrum of modern , popular music styles ; after last month 's metal mayhem , we now have Martin Rooms of Leicester to thank for requesting an article on the track One Of Us from the album ‘ The Visitors ’ by one of the purest pop acts to emerge in the last 20 years , ABBA . |
| 9 | So , I 'd got this house and two or three of us from the refuge went up to the old house and packed everything ready to move . |
| 10 | However , a commitment to Free Will somehow understood , or the force of some image of Free Will , is likely to keep many of us from the further conclusion that the circumstance was exactly a necessitating circumstance . |
| 11 | So that £780 million is being paid by all of us from the generality of taxation . |
| 12 | It is a bloody , those of us from the south , now is as Watford , Hertfordshire , sorry about that , you know , we 're well happy , you stand no chance of oh dear , I 've got in the eye here , you know , we declared independence years ago . |
| 13 | It was , or it has been , a believe that the N H S was for all of us from the cradle to the grave . |
| 14 | It was , or it has been , a belief that the N H S was for all of us from the cradle to the grave . |
| 15 | David says : ‘ After it finished , 18 of us from the course decided to carry on meeting but then everyone went their separate ways . |
| 16 | And then some at Jailside Parkses and in the , during the winter months we used to , we had a spot to meet about half a dozen of us from the various factories , because we were afraid to walk home through and that way er because men used to wait in Lane . |
| 17 | I can remember and I think the rest of us from the Three-Ninetieth can remember when there were very little time when we had it this quiet . |
| 18 | Those of us from the South who left behind tree-strewn roads and gardens after the devastation of the recent October storm , were delighted to be in such beautiful surroundings again and to meet with our Lilleshall friends from other parts of the country . |
| 19 | Young men leap past us from the roof above , splashing into the water to catch up with their canoes , beer bottles held aloft . |
| 20 | The four of us stand watching each other in the dark street while the laughing crowd drifts past us from the pub 's side door . |
| 21 | The odds were against us from the start at Lincoln — and he knew it . |
| 22 | She came with us from the orphanage back home , two hundred heads in two hundreds beds and two hundred broken hearts under two hundred army surplus blankets and the good nuns to look after us . |
| 23 | It is occasionally possible , just for brief moments , to find the words that will unlock the doors of all those many mansions inside the head and express something — perhaps not much , just something — of the crush of the information that presses in on us from the way a crow flies over and the way a man walks and the look of a street and from what we did one day a dozen years ago . |
| 24 | Singly and in groups , these aristocratic figures look down on us from the walls of the Crousel-Robelin-Bama gallery , proud survivors of a vanishing world . |
| 25 | International art , culture and politics , as immortalised by Pino Settanni , look down on us from the walls of the Hadrian Thomas gallery until 28 June . |
| 26 | Hours of bending and stretching and twisting down on the prom in singlets and shorts while the wind whipped over us from the wintry sea . |
| 27 | But the world of chapter 26 is not only familiar to us from the preceding chapters of Genesis . |
| 28 | The old cry , familiar to us from the Exodus stories , now goes up again . |
| 29 | It comes to us from the age which gave us the Great Charter , and founded the House of Commons . |
| 30 | By day we went to school , and in the evenings our grandmother read to us from the Bible and Dr David Livingstone 's journal . |