Example sentences of "of us [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | D'ye imagine any of us anticipated it ? ’ |
| 2 | She says has it turned gay or homosexual , has it changed sex , is it the micro-climate or did one of us fix it ? |
| 3 | One of us translated it into Russian . |
| 4 | There 's enough of us to do it . |
| 5 | Tennis is a pretty dumb game , I 'm finding : the fuzzy ball jumps out of the net , or out of the chicken wire at the back of the court , and the four of us bat it around until it is pocketed — quite arbitrarily , it seems to me — by the server . |
| 6 | This is indicated by the manner of libidinal development outlined in Chapter 3 and , strongly as most of us suppress it , sexual or quasi-sexual desire between parent and child is at times very evident . |
| 7 | Neither of us planned it , but our friendship turned into love and we are still desperately in love . |
| 8 | In ( 79 ) it is not just the action itself which is asserted : ( 79 ) He had a singular red cap on — not like a sailor 's cap , but of a finer colour ; and as the few yielding planks between him and destruction rolled and bulged , and his anticipative death-knell rung , he was seen by all of us to wave it . |
| 9 | Why does he say all , as if the crown were a toy , a plaything , a mere nothing — when both of us know it means everything to him ! |
| 10 | But not all of us know it . |
| 11 | Well if one of us pops it , one of , the other one 's gon na be very well off ! |
| 12 | Out of the eighty-two people who started the selection process from our drill hall , nine of us made it . |
| 13 | Oh no more turning up twelve of us cut it into twelfths . |
| 14 | The rest of us had it . |
| 15 | The Saturday before that none of us had it cos we were at granny and grandpa 's . |
| 16 | And the Saturday before that none of us had it cos you were gallivanting up and down the country with the |
| 17 | It never has moved from there because our two chairs and it 's normally only two of us watching it , cos if we 've got visitors we never have it on , you know , er they just face that way and it 's convenient and that 's where we put it . |
| 18 | I do n't think either of us likes it very much , but it 's part of the image , so we bought a packet of Gauloises in yellow paper on the first day of the Great Famine , and have rationed them strictly , just as if we were in prison . |
| 19 | How far in front of us seeing it is it erm recorded ? |
| 20 | None of us expected it to go to the proportions it has gone to . |
| 21 | Well nobody 's really saying in case when any of us sign it , we must sign excluding the written work |
| 22 | But it took should of taken four of us to lift it really but |
| 23 | Reg looked at least three divisions better than anyone else on the park , and many of us thought it incomprehensible of ‘ Bencey ’ to literally drag him off after only five minutes . |
| 24 | At first I think most of us thought it was some electrical appliance . |
| 25 | Neither of us thought it was really possible , though we did not admit that to anybody other than ourselves . ’ |
| 26 | Sir Ranulph Fiennes : ‘ neither of us thought it was possible ’ |
| 27 | of what sixth form courses entails , now , erm , three or four of us thought it might be worth our while , or your while if you just briefly said what I 'm going to say now , that erm , the , the |
| 28 | a couple of us took it on . |
| 29 | But many of us saw it as an approach which emphasised the need to allow the faith of Christ to be incarnated within particular culture and Sir Paul , the former Archbishop of New Zealand took the same stand point as a Maori , in his own address and called delegates present to speak and act as people of hope and to respond sensitively to economic and environment progility and isolation , not only in the Pacific but wherever they are . |
| 30 | PC required for C Stapleton , funded by ODA — possibility of us buying it back at end of contract , allowing for depreciation . |