Example sentences of "[prep] we [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He watches after us with evident satisfaction , as we teeter back to the stadium much the worse for the experience . |
| 2 | ‘ What we going to do ? pull him along after us on a cart ? |
| 3 | before us but their plan now is to come after us on a D C nine |
| 4 | Pretty soon they 'll send constables after us for doing such things ! |
| 5 | We left in a strange , silent huff , the women running after us into the street and trying to pull us back inside . |
| 6 | Otherwise he 'd have been down the line after us like a shot . |
| 7 | " This sure is mighty civilized of you , m'sieur , to look after us like this , " he drawled , letting a gracious smile play across his face . |
| 8 | It 's a factual mistake , of course , because er , there are n't in fact deities looking after us in the way there were parents in , in childhood . |
| 9 | She is very pleasant and helpful , and also Comrade Yu , a young teacher with plaits who looks after us in Sian and acts as interpreter . |
| 10 | Elinor said , pointing to a figure marching towards us along the riverside . |
| 11 | But what we 'll do is take it there early in the morning , we 'll get he back the bus back to Liverpool , we 'll go to the pier head and we 'll go on the ferry to New Brighton and there was me prattling all on at him and the next thing er , you di , we did n't know that , we thought we were on the main right of way street and your dad started to go across and I looked , your dad was driving , I was sitting beside him and coming towards us along this other road , which had the right of way but we did n't know was a little black mini , I was a ergh , ergh oh Harry , Harry ! |
| 12 | Rank on rank they stretched to the horizon , their reflections shimmering towards us on a blue mirror . |
| 13 | What is important is that God always acts towards us with an outbreak of invariable love , the expression of His unchanging nature . |
| 14 | Congressman Long thinks to give us alms , kicked towards us with the dirty soles of his shoes , so that the Salvadorean people , on their bended knees , lick them up from the ground with their tongues . |
| 15 | Then he was smiling , coming towards us with the charm turned on . |
| 16 | An old servant , bald as a badger , yellow-faced and wizened , bustled towards us with all the speed of a snail ; he mumbled apologies in French but Ralemberg just tapped him gently on the shoulder and told him not to worry . |
| 17 | The pilot cut the motor and the plane slid towards us with a curious hissing sound . |
| 18 | He became enormously excited and , as the rest of the party started back towards us with a huge mound of lavatory paper balanced on the ravioli , he hopped from foot to foot , clutching my arm . |
| 19 | He moved towards us across the road . |
| 20 | ‘ I think we had reached about 11,000 feet when the barrage opened up over Valetta and , against the white puffs , I saw seven biplanes heading directly towards us in a shallow vic formation . |
| 21 | Four golden heads ( six if you count the retrievers ) turn towards us in mild surprise . |
| 22 | It looks at Willie and shunts over towards us in disinterested stages . |
| 23 | She told the court : ‘ He lifted the gun up and pointed it towards us in our car . |
| 24 | As he did this a Maltese feller started striding slowly but purposefully towards us from the back of the club . |
| 25 | There were some hill-walkers with ice-axes coming towards us from the other side of the hill , and I was trying to look as though I meant to come hill-walking dressed like a hairdresser 's receptionist . |
| 26 | It came rolling towards us from the west . |
| 27 | The island was spread in front of me , outrigger canoes paddling towards us from the silver beaches lined with tall , bending palm trees and feathery casuarinas , while , behind , the green volcanic mountains rose until they seemed to meet the sky . |
| 28 | It was not therefore surprising if , on our last day of excavation , we saw from our elevated position men on horse and foot making their way towards us from all points of the compass , and we were told after our departure the top of the hill was crowded with visitors . " |
| 29 | I date the present coldness of Turkey towards us from the expulsion of the Axis from North Africa . |
| 30 | One thing worth remarking about this is cosmology and astronomy in general is very unusual science in the sense that when we observe very distant objects in the universe we are observing the universe actually as it was in the past , because the light that 's coming towards us from a distant galaxy or cluster of galaxies actually left that object maybe millions or billions of years ago . |