Example sentences of "and [det] [prep] us [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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1 | We considered various possibilities , but as neither of us could drive far and neither of us could face airport hassle , we decided to go for a week to Wales . |
2 | Er , we heard yesterday from some of your phone calls , and indeed we heard , and some of us may have seen on the television news on Wednesday evening , the desperate plight that many Iraqi civilians are now in . |
3 | But the reality is far , far different , and few of us can take that much reality . |
4 | The really frightening aspect of what is going on is that the alternative to Mr Yeltsin would seem to be chaos involving a complete economic breakdown , from which only extremists could benefit and all of us would suffer . |
5 | That 's quite right and proper and all of us would support that . |
6 | Chatting often produces some very interesting ideas for serving and preparing the food and all of us can learn something from each other in casual conversation . |
7 | Serious injuries and deaths occur , and all of us must do what we can to prevent them . |
8 | The reforms are not all bad , and many of us can see opportunities opening up which we are eager to grab . |
9 | ‘ It was scrappy all the way through and both of us can play a lot better . ’ |
10 | ‘ It was scrappy all the way through and both of us can play a lot better . ’ |
11 | We 've all experienced it and most of us would move heaven and earth to avoid it . |
12 | But there 's always some manner in which we ca n't quite break free , and most of us will find ourselves one shocked moment holding a girlfriend or boyfriend in the way we 've seen our parents holding each other for years . |
13 | Obviously , a lifetime of experience is needed to recognise or remember such minutiae , and most of us will need to fly to our bibliographies . |