Example sentences of "[prep] we [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of us here this afternoon may be grandparents in our right . |
| 2 | The XJ speeds north over the road-bridge , no lights or siren on but we clip along and it 's the smoothest fucking motorway journey I 've ever had ; just a total hassle-free zone creaming along around the ton with no worries about unmarked police cars and hoo-wee the traffic in front of us just fucking evaporates ; man , just brakes ( and wobbles sometimes as the guy probably gets the cold sweats and the wo-where'd-my-stomach-go ? feeling ) , swings meekly left and brakes again ; you 've never seen a beefy BMW 5-series duck in so fast in your life ; might as well all be driving 2CVs . |
| 3 | Behind us about 30 boys from other gangs followed our example . |
| 4 | SAVE FACE THE SAVE FACE/Lemon Fund has closed with £94,445 banked , only a few pounds short of the money we were required to pay Jason Donovan in settlement of the libel action he brought against us earlier this year . |
| 5 | When you book your ( Club 19–30 ) Holiday we want you to be so satisfied that you 'll book with us again next year . |
| 6 | This fact was disastrous to us , as we had only brought with us just enough food for a one night camping trip , with the minimum of emergency rations , and we had eaten most of this . |
| 7 | Her mother spent a weekend with us about six months after Shanti came to us , to reassure herself that for us to adopt Shanti was really what she wanted . |
| 8 | We departed by the garden staircase , bringing with us only such articles of apparel and personal effects as could be worn or carried . |
| 9 | In April two students from this school stood back to let an elderly disabled woman enter the Post Office before them and in June another student , who I am glad to say had been with us only two weeks , was spotted by two seniors through the window of the tap room of the Throstle 's Nest , helping a blind woman across the road . |
| 10 | Are we to cart her with us there next month ? ’ |
| 11 | We are glad that is able to be with us twice this season , and that has agreed to continue her regular music lessons for the early birds as well as taking a number of sessions. , and make up the rest of the team and we all look forward to working with you . |
| 12 | The pressure will be on us more this time but it does n't worry me . |
| 13 | An identification of books with enjoyment and a positive readiness to devote leisure time to reading seem to us wholly desirable outcomes of primary and secondary school experience . |
| 14 | They 'll be reporting back to us later this week on how they coped without a car and with their views on how public transport filled the gap — or not , in ’ The Road Ahead ’ . |
| 15 | In fact , crickets and cicadas hear through stretched membranes rather like our own eardrums , but these are placed in what seem to us rather odd positions . |
| 16 | It seems to us natural that love should be the commonest theme of serious imaginative literature : but a glance at classical antiquity or at the Dark Ages at once shows us that what we took for " nature " is really a special state of affairs , which will probably have an end , and which certainly had a beginning … |
| 17 | She writes a letter to us just this morning — she is ill , she can not sing tonight ! ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I love Pound , ’ Leonard said to us late one afternoon . |
| 19 | It 's alright for you to lie to us as many times as you want but when we 'd asked you once you get in a mood and walk off and do n't talk to us . |
| 20 | There is open to us only one course of action : we must quit the Confederation , consolidate and centralise our own power . |
| 21 | That 's right , he 's gone to near neighbours , Buckingham erm we wish him all the best there , he 's done a fine job for us over two years . |
| 22 | Isambard broke stillness and tension together , saying with careful serenity , and to the hall in general : ‘ Lucky for us both that intent and act are sometimes so far apart . |
| 23 | Even if there are so-called ‘ gods ’ ( like stable government , a large credit balance in the building society , a new video recorder or a newly fitted kitchen ) whether in heaven or on earth , and even though there are many of these ‘ gods ’ and ‘ lords ’ yet there is for us only one God 1 Cor 8:5 , 6a |
| 24 | … though there are many of these ‘ gods ’ and ‘ lords ’ , yet there is for us only one God , … and there is only one Lord . |