Example sentences of "of us just " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Most of us just hope this will be over as quickly as possible and that the Americans go home , ’ a diplomat said . |
| 2 | ‘ There are a group of us just down the platform , come and join us . ’ |
| 3 | Two-thirds of my male friends have got married , and the rest of us just sit around in the pub all weekend . |
| 4 | It 's something most of us just dream about . |
| 5 | I put it in inverted commas , because many of us just do different kinds of non-waged work at the weekends , or work at providing leisure facilities . |
| 6 | When it comes to the detail of everyday life most of us just muddle through somehow , but Dennis was a Platonist . |
| 7 | Jason says : ‘ Gary 's got more money than the rest of us because he gets publishing royalties for the songs he 's written , but the rest of us just get a modest wage . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Some of us just a little . |
| 9 | The rest of us just dabble in it . |
| 10 | ‘ One of us just had a lucky escape , ’ she said , turning abruptly so that he would n't see the smile on her face . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The rest of us just had knowledge . |
| 13 | and those in advantageous positions , the rest of us just do n't count . |
| 14 | ‘ She invited my friend ; we … the rest of us just tagged along . ’ |
| 15 | When the war ended the OSS was busted up : they hung on to a few units — there was a whole alphabet soup of SI , SSU , X-2 , CIG , for a time — but most of us just went home to build a brave new world with law books and Shakespeare . |
| 16 | It was really interesting to hear from a personal view , as well , actually , you know , I mean rainforests are to most of us just something we see on the television or we see pictures , it 's sort of a rather romantic idea , or a mythic idea , it 's lovely to talk to someone who 's got a much more overall view of the whole problem . |