Example sentences of "would [verb] us [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Frequently they would meet us at the Sunday-school gate , and we would go for a walk before tea . |
| 2 | Max told me that Smith would meet us on the following Monday , which would have meant waiting around for five days . |
| 3 | An account of the decline of partisan and religious strife , by contrast , would take us past the Hanoverian Succession — indeed , perhaps a long way past it . |
| 4 | ‘ In addition to doublle-digit growth for use in bottling , I can see a market for 50-70kta of polyethylene terephthalate in Europe in these new applications by 1990 , ’ says Bruce , ‘ And as a successful outcome of the research we are doing to produce materials of high-temperature resistance [ which would take us into the hot-fill container market ] and materials of improved gas barrier properties could add considerably to that . ’ |
| 5 | I myself would I am sure hereafter regret not visiting this part of V. D. L. , and under all circumstances I have agreed with Lady Franklin to wait one week longer after which to return if the wind should not come round to the eastward or northeast , either of these winds would take us to the desired place in a few hours . |
| 6 | In that case , I argued that Darwin 's idea of natural selection would lead us to the correct answer . |
| 7 | Harmless in himself — we thought — he would lead us to the dangerous ones if there were any . |
| 8 | A two minute drive of heart stopping intensity , foot flat on the board across the open runway , would get us to the other side . |