Example sentences of "us be [v-ing] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've never known Ellie voluntairily stop home to cook when all of us been sitting around in the boozer chewin' the fat . |
| 2 | In the meantime , a new generation of conductors is being born ; which is good because some of us are getting quite old now ! |
| 3 | Many of us are smarting emotionally under the sting of reactions to our belief and keenly aware of the deficiency in our response . |
| 4 | As this Monday dawns and the debris of St Valentine 's Day starts to fade in the nation 's flower-vases and chocolate-boxes , some of us are waking up and wondering where we are , that almost-forgotten sensation of the wild-oats years . |
| 5 | The situation in 1932 was best summed up by the exhibitor Ed Kuykendahl who suggested to his colleagues that , ‘ under the stress of present conditions , all of us are floundering around trying frantically to create a little business ’ . |
| 6 | Maybe but it is difficult when people do that because I mean the majority of us are going up and down and you get this one that 's going across and |
| 7 | ‘ A group of us are going down to 1997 tonight ! ’ |
| 8 | But really this is the wrong question because most of us are doing far too much already . |
| 9 | Neither of us were thinking too deeply . |
| 10 | Whilst the rest of us were copying down the maths work . |
| 11 | A whole crowd of us were walking back to Denmark Street — me and Rat Scabies and Brian James — two founders of The Damned — and Mick Jones and some others . |
| 12 | I think a number of us were becoming very concerned indeed that this was eventually becoming a political area and this this is dealt with in this way |
| 13 | The four of us were going out somewhere Anthony said , hang on , hang on , I 'm not ready yet , got out your ironing board and your iron and ironed himself a hanky . |
| 14 | A dozen of us were waiting in Out Patients , all with something wrong down there , in an area designated ‘ the water works ’ . |
| 15 | The opposition in front of us is getting less and less as we advance . |
| 16 | In the Mala Strana , the secretaries and the artists , the nurses and the busmen return to their apartments , the lights go on in the high windows , the courtyard below us is filling up with the smells of food and voices discussing — what ? |
| 17 | Neither of us is thinking rationally . |
| 18 | ‘ Neither of us is thinking rationally , ’ she said bleakly . |
| 19 | Not , ’ he added , with a wave at the rain-lashed window , ‘ that either of us is going anywhere in this . |
| 20 | In the course of subsequent meetings with him , what Dr Schonfield had to tell us was startling indeed . |