Example sentences of "[prep] us [vb mod] [vb infin] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any of us might torture a stranger , even a friend , she says , if we are told to . |
| 2 | Ahead of us might lie a future of delight and discovery , a sparkling fountain of new experiences . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Does the Minister accept that although some of us may have a disagreement with Bruce Millan , we have known him for many years and we know that he has always been , and is , punctilious in the exercise of his duties ? |
| 7 | We 'll get it all worked out and one of us 'll do the talkin' , all right ? |
| 8 | ( If our motives had to be completely pure , which of us would pass the test ? ) |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Although few of us would expect an Eskimo to react or think in the same way as we do , we are nevertheless continually guilty of the same foolish assumption in regard to nationalities closer to home . |
| 12 | We all had the right to do this , but the rest of us would acknowledge the others ' right to know what was going on and why . |
| 13 | sort of like what happened is that Robert was sort of like , the three of us sort of chipped in and bought it between us and stuff like that you know , so that all three of us would get the benefit of it |
| 14 | In the terms of the old philosophical dilemma , most of us would save the endangered baby from the house before we 'd save the Mona Lisa — even if the baby were far more likely to grow up an art thief than another Michelangelo or Da Vinci ! |
| 15 | Nowadays we are so scattered about the country that it is very unlikely that any of us would have a Stainey just around the corner who could be relied upon to put up a first class polish . |
| 16 | To get the tyres out of the oven two of us would have a long rod each . |
| 17 | More of us would covet a Wordsworth volume bound in a piece of Dorothy 's gown , green with white sprays on it . |
| 18 | It was highly likely that only half of us would complete the training , he said , and that many of us would try to desert . |
| 19 | We were on a beach , and someone — probably me in my cheerleader mode — suggested we engrave our names in big letters upon the sand , then one of us would mount the promenade and photograph inscription plus inscriber . |
| 20 | However , none of us should forget the relief of misery and the ending of conflict which have come about through the changes in Ethiopia , in Angola and in Cambodia , and we should not forget the changes in Vietnam , in Mozambique and in the western Sahara . |
| 21 | Two of us should manage the bales an' the ovver two can carry down the crates of ornaments . |
| 22 | Each of us should examine the foundations of our own faith . |
| 23 | I mean every every one of us should have a copy . |
| 24 | Each of us must feel the evocation touching our hearts — for this is where God reveals his presence among us . |
| 25 | And not one of us must say a word about what we have found . ’ |
| 26 | In the coming year , every one of us must raise the level of our performance , enhance our personal skills and ensure that we meet successfully the challenges of the current market and our planned expansion . |
| 27 | ‘ This is one way in which each of us can make a difference now ’ |
| 28 | Narrow the possible terms of response by a branching question : " I understand just how difficult this decision is , but you 're the bio-chemist ; I do n't think any of us can make the decision . |
| 29 | ‘ What Elizabeth does n't grasp is that none of us can stand the fuss she makes . |
| 30 | Since our knowledge is finite , none of us can exclude the possibility of our being wrong . |