Example sentences of "us would [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well us used to sit around the table , give granny her bottle and a glass , then us 'd play a game of cards , see . |
| 2 | The really frightening aspect of what is going on is that the alternative to Mr Yeltsin would seem to be chaos involving a complete economic breakdown , from which only extremists could benefit and all of us would suffer . |
| 3 | Millions of us would love to be in your position . |
| 4 | In normal adult life most of us would feel insulted and demeaned if the basic value we had as human beings was described by the kind of functional assessments that have been discussed . |
| 5 | ‘ I do n't really think , ’ said Helen , ‘ that either of us would feel very comfortable after this . ’ |
| 6 | And I would expect that er , all of us would feel much the same . |
| 7 | The chairman of the Bar Council , Mr. Tony Scrivener — I hope that the remarks of Conservative Members from a sedentary position are not an attack on the Bar Council , which I think all of us would regard as an important and esteemed body . |
| 8 | Few of us would fail to realise that adulthood is not a matter of years but of sexual development . |
| 9 | Most of us would pay lip service to the message of chapter 3 , that the clue to true beauty is to be found in personality and character . |
| 10 | All of us would arise in due course like Venus from the waves — shining , lovely , renewed , with sharp neat cuts , elegant waves or subtle highlights — or so we hoped ; it was an act of faith . |
| 11 | Golda Meir replied that ‘ if he was ready and willing to confront us and the world with a fait accompli [ i.e. annexation of Arab Palestine ] — the traditional friendship between us would continue and we would certainly find a common language in arranging matters of interest to both sides . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ That each one of us would return after death , in another form . |
| 13 | I do n't think he realised learning the facts of life was precisely what most of us would do if we stopped demonstrating and went back to bed . |
| 14 | Said an excited David Bowie , minutes after the grand finale , ’ A lot of us would do a show like Live Aid every year until starvation was under control . |
| 15 | ‘ None of us would want to drop down a division , so we would have to close down the shop and go back to our day jobs . ’ |
| 16 | Let's face it : how many of us would want to live here ? |
| 17 | Few of us would want cream distemper with rough and ready dark graining — except perhaps in a listed building or outside privy . |
| 18 | We must make the best of an occasion which has overtaken us but which neither of us would want , given the choice . ’ |
| 19 | None of us would want to find that , at the end of our work , we had produced a piece of legislation that increased the delay in obtaining the approval necessary to build new railways . |
| 20 | Well , obviously none of us would want to separate sex from erotica , and so er , and I think we , what we 'd like , what we wanted the leaflet to do was put , put sort of sex for , for young people er and students in particular in this case into a framework that allowed loving and resp , response of attitudes and , and eroticism , yes , and so I think what the leaflet does is , is let people take care of themselves sexually and let them take responsibility for their sexual acts . |
| 21 | It 's only lunatics like us would make it this far . ’ |
| 22 | Now er , before I put the resolution to the vote er , er , I 'm sure that all of us would welcome any comments or suggestions or questions that any of you might wish to put to us here . |
| 23 | ( If our motives had to be completely pure , which of us would pass the test ? ) |
| 24 | The idea was that a group of us would move into a big house and have young people as ‘ staff ’ helping us . |
| 25 | We 've all experienced it and most of us would move heaven and earth to avoid it . |
| 26 | I think many of us would sympathise with that view . |
| 27 | At lunch time half a dozen of us would go to a pub at the corner of Fitzroy Street and Euston Road . |
| 28 | " Last winter , " he recalls , " Myra would come across from Dunoon for a fortnightly session and the three of us would go out onto the practice ground whatever the weather . |
| 29 | It is a subject most of us would prefer not to think about . |
| 30 | Most of us would prefer when ill or very elderly to be looked after by those we know and love rather than taken to a strange and unfamiliar place . |