Example sentences of "would [vb infin] us [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | I 'd say , nothing , we 've just been up there , and he 'd smack us across the chops with the er gloves , and say , go on , and do n't let me see you here again . |
2 | So we left there that Wednesday morning and they said they 'd give us until the Friday to think about it . |
3 | But whether he 'd tell us over the telephone , you think ask . |
4 | It is not far away ; an hour 's journey through the Forest would bring us to the shore from which it can be seen . |
5 | It was going to be well into the next bio-day , I knew , before we made all the Netline interactions that would bring us to the rendezvous point . |
6 | would bring us like the Wednesday , that would be my birthday actually the Wednesday |
7 | There were coastal villages in Celebes and Borneo where the men would scowl and stride away , the women would slam their doors and window shutters in our faces , and the children would follow us down the street in howling , baiting hordes , challenging us to lose our poise . |
8 | Their names were Donald , Ian and Hugo , and they told us that they were extremely grateful for all the food but that the last thing they wanted was to put us in any danger : they begged us not to come again because there would almost certainly be someone in the village who would denounce us to the Germans or the Fascists . |
9 | The driver would take us to the police . |
10 | A man was unfurling a sail on one of the feluccas , and we ran along the bank and asked him if he would take us across the river . |
11 | I thought of the far nurseries of the stars and how many days ' sail through the thin seas of hydrogen would take us beyond the space lamps and the burial grounds of the stars . |
12 | A committee of professors , who were also our teachers , would judge us on the marks we had had during the past four years , especially this last year , and award diplomas accordingly . |
13 | Yeah well okay , well I have n't I mean , I I did I did actually think that Mrs Thatcher would lead us into the election . |
14 | ‘ No 1 ’ was small , but ‘ Carlisle ’ , built in 1865 , was a largish engine with tender and we soon got to know that Whitaker would let us onto the footplate . |
15 | We were down to Halflight , sliding through the tangle of the Lagoon Nebula interlink , making our way towards the secondary GalacNet lines that would get us to the sector containing the Ixyphal system . |
16 | That would get us to the start of the season . ’ |
17 | It would remind us of the days of our youth mixing with Greeks and Arabs and Armenians in strange corners of the world . ’ |
18 | It would relieve us of the burden of suppressed emotion . |