Example sentences of "[num] [prep] we have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The eight of us have met regularly since then . |
| 2 | Nineteen of us had made it to the end . |
| 3 | At supper earlier the three of us had talked |
| 4 | All was quiet , but only five of us had dared to come . |
| 5 | . I remember one thing , talking about things falling out and one of We had to go and pick up erm er er There was a great business you know about these er what are they called these these games . |
| 6 | as though not one of us had realised |
| 7 | One of us had to sit on the floor of the phone box while the other stood up and rested on the shelf where you open out the directories . |
| 8 | The only human explanation was that one of us had said something in an unguarded moment . |
| 9 | Occasionally , he would tell my mother something about events at school , and if he realised that one of us had overheard it , he would say , ‘ You 're deaf ! ’ |
| 10 | One of us had committed suicide . |
| 11 | We 'd have seen if one of us had tipped something into the soup . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I want to make love to you , Claudia , ’ he says , ‘ I want to hold you in my arms all night tru ’ , I want to tell you what it 's been like for me without you , just missing you , missing you so bad like one of us had passed on . |
| 13 | Yo one of us had to stay in . |
| 14 | For the strategic visionary , repetition has a similar role — to develop an intimacy with the subject at hand , to deal with strategy as ‘ craft ’ , as one of us has noted elsewhere : |
| 15 | I would hasten to say that I have never yet had the misfortune to operate anywhere which possessed all these undesirable features , but every one of us has seen some of them , or combinations of them in different circumstances , and everyone knows , from their own personal experience , how demotivating these characteristics are . |
| 16 | Time and again Carolyn has tried to teach the horse something which he did n't seem to get quite right but the next day one of us has asked and he 's done it . |
| 17 | ‘ Roxie , ’ she would say , ‘ every one of us has to look after their own . |
| 18 | As one of us has shown ( Miles et al , The design of Educational Exhibits , George Allen and Unwin , 1982 ) , it is entirely within the scope of most exhibitions to provide this kind of introductory guidance . |
| 19 | No such luck : what makes sex much more complicated but also much more interesting and rewarding is that every single one of us has to learn what it 's all about for ourselves — as unique individuals . |
| 20 | But that is the decision every one of us has to make , and that is the real significance of this scene here in Jerusalem . |
| 21 | Elsewhere one of us has offered an opinion on that question , together with appropriate supporting evidence . |
| 22 | ‘ If a plane 's delayed , it 's because one of us has nicked the wheel , shit like that . |
| 23 | But one or two of us have begun to speak up . |
| 24 | Hughes was equally emphatic , saying : ‘ I think the two of us have clicked well together recently . |
| 25 | Two of us have chosen to sail in the calmer waters of librarianship . |
| 26 | ‘ The four of us had developed as a group within Arthur Young 's business services group , a department aimed specifically at the entrepreneurial owner-managed private business , ’ Andy explains . |
| 27 | we , all four of us have booked premier suite , but |