Example sentences of "[prep] us [vb mod] [vb infin] a " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ? |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | To get the tyres out of the oven two of us would have a long rod each . |
| 8 | More of us would covet a Wordsworth volume bound in a piece of Dorothy 's gown , green with white sprays on it . |
| 9 | I mean every every one of us should have a copy . |
| 10 | And not one of us must say a word about what we have found . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ This is one way in which each of us can make a difference now ’ |
| 12 | Almost all of us can recall a time in our lives when we have been under emotional stress and have become ill as a result . |
| 13 | I sing in a band , from time to time , a woman 's band , sort of a makeshift bossa nova affair , though not one of us can play a thing and we always need help from the boys . |
| 14 | ‘ It was scrappy all the way through and both of us can play a lot better . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ It was scrappy all the way through and both of us can play a lot better . ’ |
| 16 | God 's acceptance of us can put a stop to our inherited reactions . |
| 17 | It 's alright for some to be able to buy private health care , and then the rest of us can have a diminishing and reducing National Health Service both in Nottinghamshire and throughout the rest of the country . |
| 18 | Since sunscreens offer relative , not absolute protection , most of us can get a tan using high-protection filters . |
| 19 | Most of us can name a few particular books , read in the pre-college years , that influenced our choice of science as a life 's work . |
| 20 | There 's always a chance that one of us will miss a telltale pattern or a problem somewhere . ’ |
| 21 | We are apparently being drawn to the end of time , to an apocalypse ( which will happen on 21/12/2012 ) at which point some of us will achieve a mystical transformation to a more enlightened realm of being . |
| 22 | TONIGHT one in five of us will have a sleepless night . |
| 23 | Therefore all of us will have a different shape and size of our internal stress glass . |
| 24 | Realeat founder Greg Sams predicts that within 20 years half of us will have a vegetable-based diet , and the greatest swing has been seen among the young . |
| 25 | Which most of us will have a mortgage protected against death , I E , the sum assured is released to repay the loan , what happens if we get a critical illness , heart attack , stroke , etcetera , and ca n't work . |
| 26 | Well in that case I expect , you know , some of us could become a caretaker if they 're having to pay us |
| 27 | That there are six people there are six of us could have a maybe |
| 28 | But I do n't see that either of us could produce a shred of evidence to support our extremely unlikely thesis , so I do n't see that we 're much further advanced . |
| 29 | It is , however , extremely unlikely that any of us could find a use for a hundred of these cars , even if we could solve the problem of getting into them , and this illustrates a fundamental difference between the car and the computer , and another reason for speaking of a microelectronics revolution . |
| 30 | The example they modelled before us can have a strong effect , either positive or negative . |