Example sentences of "[prep] we [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From our very earliest days the sort of pattern of attachment we form with our parents or those that look after us will influence how we feel about any relationship later in life . |
| 2 | We 'll have a bit of this type of We 'll have , have a bit of that tying wire . |
| 3 | I reckon of we 'll see it now |
| 4 | He 's as confused as I am , are an account that you can ne we 're never bottom of We used to have a very good relationship through a guy called Ray . |
| 5 | It 's a version of We Can Work It Out … by cats and dogs . |
| 6 | Some of us might go so far as to say that the Genesis account of creation is not literal history but myth in Lewis 's sense . |
| 7 | Any of us might torture a stranger , even a friend , she says , if we are told to . |
| 8 | Woosie aside , most of us might score closer to the 100 with which Bernard Darwin won the first official Club meeting in 1893 . |
| 9 | You would think that one of us might scurry around for a new word instead of accepting linguistic hand-me-downs . |
| 10 | Some of us might want to bid on it ! |
| 11 | But 28% do feel working mothers regard themselves as superior which suggest that some of us might have got carried away with out own importance . |
| 12 | Mr Nicholas Winterton , the Conservative MP for Macclesfield , a consistent Tory backbench critic of the reforms , said yesterday : ‘ I think the number of us might swell once the bill gets underway . ’ |
| 13 | Ahead of us might lie a future of delight and discovery , a sparkling fountain of new experiences . ’ |
| 14 | Some of us might live to see it . |
| 15 | ‘ Perhaps some of us might come down in great secrecy to visit you . ’ |
| 16 | The rest of us might put the same thing in much more simple terms by voicing that popular complaint , ‘ When you 've eaten a Chinese meal you feel hungry again in a couple of hours . ’ |
| 17 | Er of course as we know or we might , some of us might know from er Brit . |
| 18 | When I get out of my train at Victoria and look about me at the other two hundred — mostly strangers , not least so those whose names as early schoolfellows dawn on me when they disappeared , — I sometimes think that one or two of us ought to speak out instead of just voting and making a remark in the complaint book once or twice a year and writing to a newspaper less often . |
| 19 | " But I suppose one of us ought to stay awake ; and if I take the first turn it 'll give me a chance to have a look at your paw , Hlao-roo . |
| 20 | Also , ’ said Fribble , glancing to the velvet couch beneath the forest window , ‘ also I do think that one of us ought to stay with Fergus . ’ |
| 21 | Erm , some of us may go to tomorrow and |
| 22 | We insist on an area of personal moral sovereignty within which each of us may prefer the interests of family and friends and devote himself to projects that are selfish , however grand . |
| 23 | Some of us may compensate for this by driving our cars like dervishes or creating dramas in our personal lives . |
| 24 | Some of us may see in these bloodied simian faces the image of our own hunting ancestors . |
| 25 | Any one of us may arrest a person who is , or who is reasonably suspected to be , in the act of committing an ‘ arrestable ’ offence . |
| 26 | In contrast to this , according to the emotivist thesis , the typical cause and effect of a statement like ‘ Personal affection is a great good ’ is not any kind of genuine belief , which could be true or false , but an emotional attitude of favouring personal affection , which each of us may find ourselves either sharing or otherwise , but which we can not properly call true or false ; it therefore has primarily an emotive rather than a descriptive meaning . |
| 27 | With her grace , and a few prayers the rest of us may find for you , you can hardly go unblessed . ’ |
| 28 | Politicians , accountants , television producers , newspaper editors and all such mandarins who have set themselves up as authorities with power to say yea or nay to us , to sift right from wrong , good from bad , lawful from criminal , and to decide what the rest of us may know and what we may not ( ‘ All the News that 's Fit to Print ’ ) exploit this wondrous paradoxical nature of language with uncanny skill to attain and retain their hegemony over others . |
| 29 | The predominant influence of parties in deciding which of their candidates shall win seats is an inescapable fact of political life , however much some of us may deplore it . |
| 30 | A few of us may become angry , but most of us have to be pushed a long way before we abandon our normal passivity . |