Example sentences of "of we [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A big-boned , red-haired Irish woman tears through the crowd , stands squarely in front of us despite pushing from all sides and glares down upon us , her gaze steady , her freckles flushed . |
| 2 | Which of us on finding our car aerial snapped off by a vandal have not momentarily wanted to do the same to his neck ? |
| 3 | We had learned this at the very first lesson of the term — something most of the boys should have remembered from the previous year — when Mr Gillis had belted fourteen of us for setting off towards the door when the bell rang rather than waiting for his instruction . |
| 4 | And he gets the jar cor she said that 's disgusting dad she said and he had course he blames all of us for having some but we had n't touched them . |
| 5 | There are too few of us for giving orders and biting people . |
| 6 | We have seen exactly the same psychological process in palaeontology , where the fashionable fixation for homoeomorphy in many groups brainwashed many of us into thinking : " if they look alike they ca n't be related " ! |
| 7 | I 'd better go before you tempt the two of us into dismantling and abusing the sacred structure of the Sixth Commandment . ’ |
| 8 | These people are entitled to use ridicule as a weapon to provoke such folk as the sweetly unreasonable Mr Akhtar and the rest of us into wondering whether our beliefs , including our most deeply held convictions , are actually tenable . |
| 9 | She was of course famous for her powers of observation ; she was better than any of us at using the mirrors which she had had installed everywhere to keep an eye on everything that was happening , or was about to happen and might need averting . |
| 10 | For example a couple of weeks ago there was a thing on tit for tat and this week there 's a fascinating thing on snakes and female sexuality which erm illustrates er some of the points I 'll be , I 'll , I 'll be making and although as Sue rightly says erm , most of the articles in Nature are rather technical and difficult to understand if you 're not a specialist they do make concessions to the rest of us by publishing very often erm summaries er in the first part of the journal erm and there is one on this and er I can recommend that . |
| 11 | The Government encourages exploitation of most of us by preying on the fears of the employed and the misery of the unemployed . |
| 12 | ‘ The presence of a semi-invalid is something I neither invited nor desired , so please make it easier for both of us by giving as little trouble as possible . ’ |
| 13 | Not all of us like using woodworking machines , and do not mind spending the extra time achieving results which may be less perfect and mechanical-looking . |
| 14 | ‘ None of us like talking about that period very much , ’ he replied . |
| 15 | First , of course , you have to know what you are : that there is another life , another set of attitudes , other responses out there in the world , which prevent most of us from aspiring to better things . |
| 16 | It removes the pernicious , if subconscious obsession with calendar age , which precludes some of us from learning new things , or undertaking new tasks , or taking a new interest in the world around us . ’ |
| 17 | Thorning adds : ‘ Of course , this arrangement does n't stop either of us from getting other contacts within the CIS . |
| 18 | restrain both of us from taking action in which we are currently engaged ? |
| 19 | We were grateful that skilful programming precluded any of us from finding ourselves in the wrong session ! |
| 20 | Quite a few of us from used to go down to cricket match . |