Example sentences of "of we have [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The four of us had developed as a group within Arthur Young 's business services group , a department aimed specifically at the entrepreneurial owner-managed private business , ’ Andy explains . |
| 2 | We lost touch for a couple of years and then we met at the Coventry Specimen Group Stag Night and found that each of us had conceded to an extent and were now using almost identical rods . |
| 3 | ‘ The convulsion of war has opened our eyes to many strange things ’ , he wrote in 1919 , ‘ Few of us had realised till war had exposed it how thin is the veneer of civilisation over the underlying animal proclivities … the failure of religion to direct , and education to balance , the actions of men . ’ |
| 4 | And all of us had to assemble in the servants ' hall for lunch . |
| 5 | Further they were partying far into the night every night after most of us had retired to our weary bed . |
| 6 | We were greatly influenced by the work of the FMS and some of us had collaborated with that organization back in 1968 during the teachers ' massive strike . |
| 7 | None of us had reckoned on open-heart surgery . |
| 8 | It was all very exciting and again , because none of us had gone through it before , it was really wonderful to watch this happen and to be a part of it . |
| 9 | some of us had gone over the border you know . |
| 10 | One of us had to sit on the floor of the phone box while the other stood up and rested on the shelf where you open out the directories . |
| 11 | You know that that 's about all the room there was was honestly was a table and chairs and more often than not a couple of us had to sit on the stairs . |
| 12 | They paid the headman of the village five hundred rupees and all of us had to streak through the forest making as much noise as we possibly could to round up the game . |
| 13 | I mean , neither of us had eaten since the early hours , and drinking on an empty stomach is dodgy . |
| 14 | To find a simple joy in his supreme talent that the rest of us had enjoyed for years . |
| 15 | However , O was no celibate ; several of us had slept with him . |
| 16 | None of us had slept in the intervening hours . |
| 17 | It had n't helped that on both occasions the rest of us had laughed at Frank 's remarks . |
| 18 | She 's only been here two weekends , and none of us had worked for her in the past … |
| 19 | However , neither of us had expected to be arrested for behaviour likely to cause a breach of the peace ’ if we attempted to get on the water above the falls ; we 'd blown it ! |
| 20 | ‘ At least none of us had carried over any problems from the England game . |
| 21 | Perhaps , humanly speaking , some of us had doubted during a period of economic recession that we would achieve such a level of giving but God had been honoured . |
| 22 | A girl from one of the other teams — for all of us had assembled by now — asked him for the time and briefly discussed the weather with him and when , after about 15 minutes , he struck off purposefully around a nearby playing field , he had a tail of 14 people — the entire membership of all four spy teams — determined not to lose their quarry . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Still others do their best work when most of us have gone to sleep . |
| 25 | 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 ’ . |
| 26 | Most of us have heard of them even if we do n't understand exactly what they are . |
| 27 | Trust you , Dwight , to pick a winner , and pick him before the rest of us have heard of him ! |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | ‘ Three generations of us have lived in this house . |
| 30 | ‘ Three generations of us have lived in this house . |