Example sentences of "of us have [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He very much admired the poetry of Ebenezer Elliott , the Corn Law Rhymer , that is , a poet who helped to lead the opposition to the laws which kept the price of bread artificially high , and said ‘ None of us have done better than he has at his best ’ . |
| 2 | Could any of us have done anything ? |
| 3 | In the past 11 years , some of us have done precisely that , justifiably sending endless letters to the Department of the Environment . |
| 4 | I know a lot of us have done terms for a long term , but to be together closely and observe each other reacting and doing things it gives a better idea of how people think , being in this together . |
| 5 | Some of us have done it before . |
| 6 | For a considerable time , at least some of us have questioned where the IRA is trained and where it comes from . |
| 7 | Obviously this is an overstatement , but it does not really exaggerate too much the state of mind many Of us have reached in stratigraphical discussions . |
| 8 | And yet how few of us have made that pilgrimage ! |
| 9 | Still others do their best work when most of us have gone to sleep . |
| 10 | Some of us have moved the other way , out of teaching . |
| 11 | and I 'm certainly show that few of us have grown any wiser in the intervening decade . |
| 12 | In his influential Hints on Household Taste ( 1868 ) , Charles Eastlake , whose name is also linked with the Arts and Crafts Movement inspired by William Morris , describes the eagerness with which ‘ many of us have peeped inside the threshold of a Welsh Cottage or Devonshire farmhouse , and longed to sketch its ample hearth ’ . |
| 13 | But one or two of us have begun to speak up . |
| 14 | Most of us have heard of them even if we do n't understand exactly what they are . |
| 15 | Trust you , Dwight , to pick a winner , and pick him before the rest of us have heard of him ! |
| 16 | That speech was probably one of the most dramatic and remarkable , although it was quiet in delivery , that many of us have heard in the whole of our time in this House , because it was the undoing of a Prime Minister . |
| 17 | In practice many of us have become Christians and are continuing to believe for less than the best reasons and clearest motives . |
| 18 | Invention , for example , of a completely new recording medium like the compact disc may grow very fast because all of us have become addicted to recorded music . |
| 19 | Recently , more and more of us have become concerned about environmental issues . |
| 20 | It seems as if nearly all of us have crossed swords with the dreaded vine weevil , and I 'm afraid I 'm one of the many who never quite manage to get rid of them . |
| 21 | All of Us have said things like … |
| 22 | Probably many of us have treasured letters containing gems of spiritual guidance which have come to us when the writer could not , or during times of personal need or crisis . |
| 23 | Most of Lot of us have lost a lot of times , but So I thank you again . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ Three generations of us have lived in this house . |
| 27 | ‘ Three generations of us have lived in this house . |
| 28 | ‘ Three generations of us have lived in this house . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The eight of us have met regularly since then . |