Example sentences of "of we [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's so persuasively and convincingly argued — especially for those of us most happy to be convinced — that it 's a trifle dampening to be reminded that these are ‘ image patterns whose sexual significance may have been hidden from the poet on a conscious level … . |
| 2 | The covenant was not just an important past event preserved by tradition but was the theme of what Gunnell calls ‘ a communal drama played out between Yahweh — He who will be there — and His people in time ’ , for in the words of Deuteronomy 5 : 3 , ‘ The Lord made not this covenant with our fathers , but with us , even us , who are all of us here alive this day . ’ |
| 3 | Some of us here this afternoon may be grandparents in our right . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | For those of us not lucky enough to have a workshop , it 's an invaluable portable work bench which can be hung on the garage wall , and fits in the car . |
| 6 | Maybe with groups of us as small as sort of six to ten . |
| 7 | Our job is to keep every part of us as healthy as possible , for the good of the whole person . |
| 8 | Even those of us too young to have been part of it are still under the spell of the culture of activism formed around it . |
| 9 | We are none of us too grand or too sophisticated to benefit from the lessons of the cottage garden and we are fortunate that there are still some skilled practitioners such as Connie Franks to show the rest of us how it should be done . |
| 10 | However , those of us too old for the elite ‘ Pirates ’ or ‘ Club 16 ’ need not feel left out . |
| 11 | and share one pizza between the two of us how much would you get each ? |
| 12 | If we had the penny between the two of us how much would we get each ? |
| 13 | Nothing okay if we had the pizza between the two of us how much would we get each ? |
| 14 | So if our mum had cut it up into twelve pieces and then only three people wanted pizza so she cut it up into twelve twelfths and then said who wants pizza and only three people wanted pizza she 'd now have to put some of these twelfths back together again then and just three of us how many twelfths would we get ? |
| 15 | It 's just like sharing I mean if we had two pizzas and we shared them between the two of us how many would |
| 16 | If we had erm four pizzas and we shared them between the two of us how many would we get ? |
| 17 | Share it out between four of us how many would we get ? |
| 18 | Okay now there are six of us how many twelfths will we get there are twelve of them . |
| 19 | but we were , neither of us very keen on that |
| 20 | And many of us so all of us stood |
| 21 | He contrasts the moral ideas of humanity with those of the deity , who is described in terms reminiscent of Voltaire : ‘ Why have we sympathies that make the best of us so afraid of inflicting pain and sorrow , which yet we see dealt about so lavishly by the supreme governor ? ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I meant one of us so handsome and cool and the other … ’ |
| 23 | The Canadian will be ahead of us then all the way to Winnipeg . ’ |
| 24 | And if we look at it from that standpoint I think we can begin to see , perhaps , that actually we 're all programmers , some of us less clear about it than others . |