Example sentences of "of us [vb past] [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neither of us had been prepared for this sudden release of feeling ; Edward seemed embarrassed by the confession , I embarrassed by his embarrassment , and regretting my earlier ungenerous thoughts … |
| 2 | All of us had been hit several times already and there was a correct way of dealing with it . |
| 3 | Most of us had been born in the mining community . |
| 4 | Sergeant Allen Jenkins was disappointed that none of us had been pancaked under rubble , but quickly learned to live with it . |
| 5 | All of us had been promoted out of any efficiency that we might have had . |
| 6 | I indicated that legal action was , in my view , inappropriate in respect of what was a rather feeble attempt at satire , and the importance of the programme would be enhanced to an absurd extent if anyone depicted in it took it seriously , but none of us liked being ridiculed . |