Example sentences of "[det] [prep] we would [vb infin] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was highly likely that only half of us would complete the training , he said , and that many of us would try to desert . |
| 2 | Although few of us would expect an Eskimo to react or think in the same way as we do , we are nevertheless continually guilty of the same foolish assumption in regard to nationalities closer to home . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | More of us would covet a Wordsworth volume bound in a piece of Dorothy 's gown , green with white sprays on it . |
| 5 | Nowadays we are so scattered about the country that it is very unlikely that any of us would have a Stainey just around the corner who could be relied upon to put up a first class polish . |
| 6 | In the terms of the old philosophical dilemma , most of us would save the endangered baby from the house before we 'd save the Mona Lisa — even if the baby were far more likely to grow up an art thief than another Michelangelo or Da Vinci ! |