Example sentences of "some [prep] we [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , it was all too immediate , though some of us kept diaries , ; now we select and interpret looking back from a different Personal life and a very different political time . ) |
| 2 | Some of us dwell too much on failure in the past , or the threat of disaster in the future , sending messages like ‘ You did this very badly last year ’ or ‘ Things are bound to go well in the future ’ . |
| 3 | And er some of us seemed to be more awkward than others , I mean some people 's feet when you look at them and , and areas like that , that , you think well why did Jehovah make them like that , they 're so ugly and yet without them where would we be ? |
| 4 | Some of us seemed to be awkward and the truth , new and the truth , inexperienced , others seemed to be so polished do n't they ? |
| 5 | Ask them if they are working-class or middle-class , and they tell you ‘ This is our fate , sister , to work , to slave , in Pakistan too some of us had to do the hard , hard work on the fields . |
| 6 | Some of us had stayed just to watch this happen . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Some of us had been trying to make our voices heard against Saddam through the long years when he was hugger-mugger with every leader of the western world . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Saturdays made no difference to us , for there was no school then , but on Wednesdays some of us had to stand up the whole way to Parma . |
| 11 | some of us had gone over the border you know . |
| 12 | Dra er some of us had to do a drama competition |
| 13 | It gave the name of a contact point to follow up information , although some of us had reservations about whether it should have been the person who was actually quoted in the press release |
| 14 | Before the show some of us crowded into the tiny lighting box as Pyke , in his denim dungarees and white T-shirt — he still had long hair — took his seat . |
| 15 | However thirty-six hours before she died she telephoned for some of us to visit ; she knew we had all been worried and concerned but she had it all under control . |
| 16 | Some of us felt that more attention could be paid to this aspect , particularly in order to obtain a greater economic return for the heavy expenditure on government assistance . |
| 17 | In view of this dependence on outside finance , some of us felt that there could perhaps be more concern with the economics of what is being done . |
| 18 | On the , on the down side , some of us felt that the , the actual heading could have been , might get picked up verbatim by a news editor and used almost in that form . |
| 19 | Some of us felt that , you know , the fifty percent , if that were the crucial figure , and doubling the food poisoning for instance , might have been , might be a more snappy headline . |
| 20 | Some of us knew what that meant by then . |
| 21 | Perhaps some of us knew before of God 's plan for the animals . |
| 22 | We are Tswanas , Northern and Southern Sothos , Shangaan , Xhosas , Zulu , and some of us come from Swaziland . |
| 23 | Send 'em home , some of us said , stop 'em breeding . |
| 24 | Some of us said that we would keep an eye on what happened to that Act in the years that followed . |
| 25 | Some of us avoid using the word 1 . |
| 26 | There was a plain white card inside as well , saying , ‘ Only the artist realizes that some of us exert a Homeric effort simply to behave ordinarily , ’ but she had translated her declaration to him into Latin in a self-defeating impulse to disown it , and he never troubled to puzzle it out . |
| 27 | Some of us made a final effort and formed Feminist Audio Books — a library exclusively providing audiotapes of feminist writing for blind and partially-sighted women and women with reading difficulties . |
| 28 | And cer the determination of the women , that we were n't gon na be starved back to work , we were n't gon na be forced back to work , we were n't just gon na end in chaos and some of us going back and some of us staying out , I think it was the women possibly talking to their husbands or , and just reassuring each other , you know that helped us no end . |
| 29 | We got up every morning and went to our routine , boring and badly-paid jobs , some of us hoping , some of us dreading the advent of Mr Right : he who would relieve us from , God forbid , the tedium of having to rely on each other for company , comfort , support and stimulation . |
| 30 | When we hear the word ‘ power ’ some of us make strong associations with fear , deprivation and a loss of control . |