Example sentences of "a [noun sg] of us [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To tell what the Tories are doing to the N H S , I mean I do n't think it 's a case of us making them aware of what 's happening . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's never a case of us playing well . |
| 3 | And we used to ha , we used to come down here some some evenings a gang of us remember I used to look ever so small |
| 4 | There was a gang of us chatting with him . |
| 5 | I remember once erm when basically all erm there was a gang of us had a sort of wine that was warm . |
| 6 | A gang of us went from the |
| 7 | There 's a gang of us going , all girls . |
| 8 | It is felt as a tussle of will , a powerful urge to transgress standards of thought or behaviour which only a part of us declares as inviolable . |
| 9 | You understand that it is a condition of us accepting your booking that you take out for yourself and for those for whom you book our recommended holiday insurance ( details on page 15 ) , or that you arrange a policy yourself giving comparable or better cover under all sections . |
| 10 | It 's just a question of us getting three points , that 's all that matters . ’ |
| 11 | So it 's a question of us retaining , because to a certain extent we already have it , due to our customer past . |
| 12 | If you have practical experience of forming organisations and/or are able to offer concrete assistance in any form , I 'd be very pleased and grateful to hear from you , with a view to a group of us meeting . |
| 13 | A group of us evolve towards the door . |
| 14 | During those early seventies , despite the avalanche of heterosexism that constantly slid in our direction , including the virulent expressions of women-hating propounded by Father Church , a group of us waged our own war at the patriarchal system . |
| 15 | I saw another on the West Highland Way , near Conic Hill , and friend Ronnie Leask found a dead one when a group of us went to the Jura . |
| 16 | Two days later in what was a completely strange country I found myself doing this audition piece and I can remember very clearly sitting in the antechamber afterwards and the registrar popping her head round the door and saying balefully to a group of us sitting there , ‘ Sorry , none of you ’ . |
| 17 | At one point a group of us decided that the best way to stop being hassled about separatism was to publish instalments of the CLIT papers in the weekly newsletter , which was mailed to women all over London and beyond . |
| 18 | Or a group of us do on our own . |
| 19 | I is n't there a danger of us becoming a committee , a publicity committee you know ? |
| 20 | A quarter of us had Teletext on our TV . |
| 21 | A quarter of us had four radio sets or more . |
| 22 | Such a chore of us putting messages back . |
| 23 | A minority of us thought that some schools should be integrated as sixth-form colleges , or centres , to which entry might properly be academically competitive . |
| 24 | It will probably be a matter of us posting them to him . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ It was a matter of us owning up ourselves . ’ |
| 26 | So we a number of us went away with lists of topics that we were going to write erm two hundred and fifty or so words about . |
| 27 | A number of us went to that presentation the minister , the church secretary , myself , and the treasurer at the time and a few of the elders . |
| 28 | The most genuinely modest personality it is my pleasure to know , George had to be bullied by a number of us to sit for his sculpture by Archie Forrest who could well be considered as adept with clay as he is with paint . |
| 29 | Ignoring the weather forecast yet again , a number of us packed our rucksacks and headed up that interminable path to Coire Ardair . |
| 30 | . Er fourpence return was two mars bars , and quite a lot of us walked . |