Example sentences of "[prep] we would [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( If our motives had to be completely pure , which of us would pass the test ? ) |
| 2 | Millions of us would love to be in your position . |
| 3 | Sometimes one or other would misuse that privilege and perhaps shout more than was otherwise seemly , ‘ but the fact that we 'd grown up together meant we could have our rows and know that the next day one of us would apologise , and it would all be forgotten . ’ |
| 4 | Now er , before I put the resolution to the vote er , er , I 'm sure that all of us would welcome any comments or suggestions or questions that any of you might wish to put to us here . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | All of us would arise in due course like Venus from the waves — shining , lovely , renewed , with sharp neat cuts , elegant waves or subtle highlights — or so we hoped ; it was an act of faith . |
| 7 | I do n't think he realised learning the facts of life was precisely what most of us would do if we stopped demonstrating and went back to bed . |
| 8 | Said an excited David Bowie , minutes after the grand finale , ’ A lot of us would do a show like Live Aid every year until starvation was under control . |
| 9 | Few of us would fail to realise that adulthood is not a matter of years but of sexual development . |
| 10 | ‘ That each one of us would return after death , in another form . |
| 11 | Most of us would pay lip service to the message of chapter 3 , that the clue to true beauty is to be found in personality and character . |
| 12 | In the light of such a definition some of us would admit that we still have some growing up to do ourselves . |
| 13 | While most of us would admit to having hurt another person deliberately , we recoil in horror from the thought of subjecting someone to extreme pain for impersonal reasons . |
| 14 | And unless we happen to be absolute saints , I 'll bet most of us would admit that there have been occasions when we would willingly have ‘ divorced ’ our young ourselves … |
| 15 | At lunch time half a dozen of us would go to a pub at the corner of Fitzroy Street and Euston Road . |
| 16 | " Last winter , " he recalls , " Myra would come across from Dunoon for a fortnightly session and the three of us would go out onto the practice ground whatever the weather . |
| 17 | The chairman of the Bar Council , Mr. Tony Scrivener — I hope that the remarks of Conservative Members from a sedentary position are not an attack on the Bar Council , which I think all of us would regard as an important and esteemed body . |
| 18 | I think many of us would sympathise with that view . |
| 19 | The idea was that a group of us would move into a big house and have young people as ‘ staff ’ helping us . |
| 20 | We 've all experienced it and most of us would move heaven and earth to avoid it . |
| 21 | We may have some desire to be appreciated for our physical appearance , but most of us would hope to be desired for what we are down inside . |
| 22 | Many melodies of the last hundred years could not possibly be made to fit into such a restrictive rule — in fact many of us would avoid the feeling of regularity and ‘ squareness ’ that such a classical scheme produces . |
| 23 | To overcome this problem , after long-netting the main wood two of us would walk behind the rabbits and set a net along the small wood . |
| 24 | ‘ I ca n't make you believe in Dana , but neither of us would hurt your sister , ’ Claudia said . |
| 25 | Or one of us would rush into the dressing room just before curtain-up and tell Terry there was someone who urgently needed to talk to him on the phone . |
| 26 | Since then he has created a garden few of us would aspire to after a lifetime of gardening . |
| 27 | In normal adult life most of us would feel insulted and demeaned if the basic value we had as human beings was described by the kind of functional assessments that have been discussed . |
| 28 | ‘ I do n't really think , ’ said Helen , ‘ that either of us would feel very comfortable after this . ’ |
| 29 | And I would expect that er , all of us would feel much the same . |
| 30 | In the American state of California , people have a life-style which most of us would envy . |