Example sentences of "would [vb infin] us [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cos when the well as soon as you could walk in the summer er you know when weather permitting my mam 'd take us down on the beach there and , Here you are , sink or swim in you 'd go into the water . |
| 2 | A strike would plunge us deep into the red . |
| 3 | And then she would look to Gary for him to begin the piano again , and she would look us straight in the eye for as long as possible , and she would sing : |
| 4 | Well yes , but that , remember we provided for up to two hundred million which we thought would see us through to the end of ninety two . |
| 5 | Foreign investors would see us not as the launch pad to Europe but as some backwater . |
| 6 | After we woke , he would take us on to the bigger islands , known as the Big Bush ’ . |
| 7 | These rather gloomy thoughts were in our minds as we arrived , a bit soothed but still edgy , to find that the last ferry over the Rhone from Salin which would take us on to the road to Martigues had left at 11.30 and there would not be another until 2 o'clock . |
| 8 | How far these two constructions — the adjective with the verb and the adverb with the verb — should be considered in company with constructions such as : ( 15 ) Heidi saw the stork falter ( 16 ) kiss her goodbye ! is an interesting question , but one which would take us well beyond the bounds of the adjectival study on which we are focusing here . ) |
| 9 | Here it is evident that an interest in language usage motivated by functionalist approaches to linguistics would take us well beyond the confines of pragmatics ( as sketched in the definitions above ) into the domain of sociolinguistics and beyond . |
| 10 | Er we at the County Council think that to delete that Greater York erm dimension would take us back to the realms of uncertainty , past uncertainty , in the Greater York area , we 're therefore proceeding with a Greater York dimension in policy H One at none thousand seven hundred dwellings , which equates to hundred percent migration . |
| 11 | The teacher would call us up to the front of the class to recite it , and woe betide anyone who faltered . |
| 12 | It was a potent stimulator for our technical people , not just for the marginal improvements from our operating experience which would be built into the next plant , but to look for the major change in thinking which alone would put us ahead of the competition . |