Example sentences of "all [prep] we [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In ( 79 ) it is not just the action itself which is asserted : ( 79 ) He had a singular red cap on — not like a sailor 's cap , but of a finer colour ; and as the few yielding planks between him and destruction rolled and bulged , and his anticipative death-knell rung , he was seen by all of us to wave it . |
| 2 | If , by any chance , you have a way of passing on messages to Frank ( via the supporters club maybe ) — Im sure all of us wish him the best … and hope to see him back here at Leeds in a few years so he can be 1st choice . |
| 3 | I think all of us wish this epidemic would go away , and that it would n't touch us and that it were only small numbers , but the news today clearly shows that it affects each and every one of us . |
| 4 | What is more , all of us apply the same criteria when it comes to saving our own favourite environments , human or non-human , from ‘ being ruined ’ by too many people or the wrong kind of people . |
| 5 | We must all of us write to the Health Authority , to our local M Ps , to the government to defend Orthopaedic Hospital . |
| 6 | David Jacksons 24 hour cycling marathon raised a total of £2,800 ( the largest single contribution so far ) and proved to be a lot of fun for all of us involved ( see separate article ) . |
| 7 | But this time it will be for all of us to enjoy . |
| 8 | All of us felt a long way from the happy days when ‘ we never had it so good ’ . |
| 9 | For all of us listening this was a spur to further ‘ action with the world 's poor ’ . |
| 10 | This is a wonderful adventure , beckoning all of us to participate . |
| 11 | In the present case , we all of us suffer from numerous false beliefs which have some role in our inferential processes , and so on this suggestion none of our present true justified beliefs would count as knowledge . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | All of us had been promoted out of any efficiency that we might have had . |
| 14 | Nearly all of us had had the same sort of education and shared a common social background . |
| 15 | By the end of the first half all of us had sweat pouring down our faces . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Apart from these racial insults , the atmosphere was genial , and all of us had seen enough of our boys to expect the best . |
| 18 | All of us had been hit several times already and there was a correct way of dealing with it . |
| 19 | All of us had sores and infections on our hands and arms from the cold and the dirt . |
| 20 | And all of us had to assemble in the servants ' hall for lunch . |
| 21 | We , all of us had er a bed-sitting room of our own which we kept on between cases cos we had to have somewhere to live and erm and then of course we , we 'd come back there and make up for lost time really . |
| 22 | However , I stayed a bit longer and when all the girls , all of us had three months ' notice to leave , it was dreadful , you see , because we were fully trained by that time you see . |
| 23 | Yeah all of us had to audition . |
| 24 | We were all of us outcasts ; we were all of us flung out by the Lords of Tara , who were jealous of their lineage and protective of their inheritance . |
| 25 | The news of busy , wanted school libraries can help all of us engaged in providing books and related services to schools . |
| 26 | Above all , he insisted on reducing the revenue support grant rather than increasing it , which is what all of us said was necessary to soften the blow . |
| 27 | The only thing , the only thing that all of us said categorically is they were fired upon first , but the trouble is they 've had fucking twenty years to , to think up their side and so there 's that so |
| 28 | Consider alcohol : We are all of us exposed to it . |
| 29 | If you have got a murder on your hands , it 's the duty of all of us to report anything , however insignificant or innocent it may appear . |
| 30 | With planning it is possible for all of us to clarify our thoughts about our hopes and future needs . |