Example sentences of "[noun sg] [det] [prep] we [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Regardless of our commitment to joint decision-making most of us will find that there are many decisions where we feel we lack either sufficient interest or qualification and are perfectly happy to leave those decisions to our partner , eg many men would feel primarily responsible for choosing a car but would prefer their wives to pick out the furniture , decorations and plan the kitchen . |
| 2 | Paragliding is a sport most of us would consider dangerous , not so according to as long as you do n't fly outwith your limitations . |
| 3 | Well , that is one argument neither of us can win . |
| 4 | In the light of such a definition some of us would admit that we still have some growing up to do ourselves . |
| 5 | Like many a mother faced with the apparent intransigence of her child , she ignored the rebuff and gave the servants the best advice any of us could receive : ‘ Do whatever he tells you ’ ( John 2.5 ) . |
| 6 | But this reverses the order of argument most of us would endorse : we share an understanding that our officials must treat all members of the community they govern as equals because we believe they should behave that way , not the other way around . " |
| 7 | It is a subject most of us would prefer not to think about . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Since then he has created a garden few of us would aspire to after a lifetime of gardening . |
| 10 | Our marriage has been on the cards from day one , and there 's not a damned thing either of us can do about it . ’ |
| 11 | Nor would we have an information system which carries every piece of lesbian information any of us can find , lesbian benefits to balance up the years of drag show fund raising , and a closed Women 's Caucus which supports whatever work we do in the organization . |
| 12 | Next door , it 's old toys they 're after , the sort of thing most of us will remember from the toy cupboard of old . |
| 13 | There 's no way any of us could walk out of this station in uniform . |
| 14 | Prolonged NHS under-funding causes daily problems , and GPs have had the worst year most of us can remember , trying diligently to make some sense of their government-imposed contracts . |
| 15 | Many melodies of the last hundred years could not possibly be made to fit into such a restrictive rule — in fact many of us would avoid the feeling of regularity and ‘ squareness ’ that such a classical scheme produces . |