Example sentences of "most [prep] we have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Further they were partying far into the night every night after most of us had retired to our weary bed . |
| 2 | Most of us had reached the point where we wanted to carry on drinking until we collapsed . |
| 3 | most of us had eaten our lunch by then on the coach because we were so hungry , after all it had been seven hours since we had last eaten . |
| 4 | By now most of us had tucked our binoculars away inside anoraks out of the wet . |
| 5 | I thought that was unkind really since it was never very noticeable and most of us had forgotten all about it . |
| 6 | Our defeat [ at the October 1974 general election ] was nothing like as heavy as most of us had feared . |
| 7 | But they were all quite delightful fellows about the same age as most of the airmen pupils , and we seemed to fit in very well with each other ; although most of us had spent several years in the RAF the acting pilot officers had only spent , say , a couple of months . |
| 8 | The match was on 18 June , almost the summer solstice , so most of us had to try to sleep with our pillows over our heads . |
| 9 | Most of us have to ration our holidays pretty carefully — two weeks is the average break most people can manage . |
| 10 | Because most of us have ignored non-European cultures in the past does not now mean that European and European/American culture have become less valid or that we must be tempted to rewrite history twisting facts to suit our present crisis of confidence . |
| 11 | Cutting letter box slots in doors is a job most of us have to do once or twice in a decade . |
| 12 | Most of us have to combat one or more of them . |
| 13 | Most of us have heard of them even if we do n't understand exactly what they are . |
| 14 | But after that , most of us have to choose an actual aircraft with reference to our finances . |
| 15 | Still others do their best work when most of us have gone to sleep . |
| 16 | Most of us have seen a heart in one form or another , whether on television or in school or even at the butchers . |
| 17 | Most of us have seen formal syntax diagrams and Backus-Naur Form ( BNF ) definitions for languages , and many of us have been found them to be somewhat confusing . |
| 18 | Getting married is something that most Scottish women do at least once in their lives , and most Scottish men , which means that most of us have planned a wedding and that 's what we 're talking about tonight , weddings . |
| 19 | In calling for a vote on European union , TODAY is speaking up for what most of us have wanted for a long time . |
| 20 | Most of us have lived long enough to know that you ca n't say with any certainty , where you might be in the future . |
| 21 | This is probably true , but it seems to me that we have now become so engrossed in the jargon of " turbidites " ( an objectionable genetic term ) and with their " bottom structures " , that most of us have lost sight of the real significance of the original idea . |
| 22 | As one rural teacher recounted : ‘ Most of us have to teach six grades on our own in one room . |
| 23 | The biggest challenges that most of us have to deal with are invariably those that are thrown at us by fate . ’ |
| 24 | They feel he is on their side which is like a breath of fresh air in this game for most of us have known to our cost that there are many jockeys who do n't always give their 100pc — especially when our money is down . |
| 25 | As most of us have to work to earn a living , the short winter days limit our riding considerably and leave us with the choice of riding before or after work in the dark or only at weekends , unless you are lucky enough to have access to an indoor school . |
| 26 | Bereavement and the sorrow it brings is the price most of us have to pay sooner or later for the joy of loving , and it is a bill that the elderly have usually had presented to them several times in their lives in one form or another . |
| 27 | I imagine most of us have entered that deep valley , and maybe some of us are in it now . |
| 28 | Most of us have to admit that although our parents may not have had an ideal marriage , we have learned a lot of valuable lessons from them . |
| 29 | I say ‘ can ’ because most of us have bought something that proved to be marvellous . |
| 30 | Most of us have experienced similar examples of such ‘ audience effects ’ on behaviour : playing a game to perfection ( or otherwise ) when the team selector is present , for instance . |