Example sentences of "[modal v] [vb infin] us [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | So we left there that Wednesday morning and they said they 'd give us until the Friday to think about it . |
| 32 | All of these comments might be qualities which we refuse to see in ourselves , and could guide us along the path towards self-discovery . |
| 33 | Oh he could take us into the two thousand . |
| 34 | Odd-Knut — whose English was good enough to know that he did not want us to call him ‘ Odd ’ — suggested that he could leave us near the Finnish border and we could ski or walk the last bit . |
| 35 | But whether he 'd tell us over the telephone , you think ask . |
| 36 | There 's something about this matter which could lead us to the gallows or on to the knife of some hired assassin . |
| 37 | The point I am making now is that , even if we look on the dark side and assume that individual man is fundamentally selfish , our conscious foresight — our capacity to simulate the future in imagination — could save us from the worst selfish excesses of the blind replicators . |
| 38 | Magnets may lead us by the nose |
| 39 | It is not far away ; an hour 's journey through the Forest would bring us to the shore from which it can be seen . |
| 40 | It was going to be well into the next bio-day , I knew , before we made all the Netline interactions that would bring us to the rendezvous point . |
| 41 | would bring us like the Wednesday , that would be my birthday actually the Wednesday |
| 42 | There were coastal villages in Celebes and Borneo where the men would scowl and stride away , the women would slam their doors and window shutters in our faces , and the children would follow us down the street in howling , baiting hordes , challenging us to lose our poise . |
| 43 | Frequently they would meet us at the Sunday-school gate , and we would go for a walk before tea . |
| 44 | Max told me that Smith would meet us on the following Monday , which would have meant waiting around for five days . |
| 45 | Their names were Donald , Ian and Hugo , and they told us that they were extremely grateful for all the food but that the last thing they wanted was to put us in any danger : they begged us not to come again because there would almost certainly be someone in the village who would denounce us to the Germans or the Fascists . |
| 46 | An account of the decline of partisan and religious strife , by contrast , would take us past the Hanoverian Succession — indeed , perhaps a long way past it . |
| 47 | ‘ In addition to doublle-digit growth for use in bottling , I can see a market for 50-70kta of polyethylene terephthalate in Europe in these new applications by 1990 , ’ says Bruce , ‘ And as a successful outcome of the research we are doing to produce materials of high-temperature resistance [ which would take us into the hot-fill container market ] and materials of improved gas barrier properties could add considerably to that . ’ |
| 48 | The driver would take us to the police . |
| 49 | I myself would I am sure hereafter regret not visiting this part of V. D. L. , and under all circumstances I have agreed with Lady Franklin to wait one week longer after which to return if the wind should not come round to the eastward or northeast , either of these winds would take us to the desired place in a few hours . |
| 50 | A man was unfurling a sail on one of the feluccas , and we ran along the bank and asked him if he would take us across the river . |
| 51 | I thought of the far nurseries of the stars and how many days ' sail through the thin seas of hydrogen would take us beyond the space lamps and the burial grounds of the stars . |
| 52 | A committee of professors , who were also our teachers , would judge us on the marks we had had during the past four years , especially this last year , and award diplomas accordingly . |
| 53 | Harmless in himself — we thought — he would lead us to the dangerous ones if there were any . |
| 54 | In that case , I argued that Darwin 's idea of natural selection would lead us to the correct answer . |
| 55 | Yeah well okay , well I have n't I mean , I I did I did actually think that Mrs Thatcher would lead us into the election . |
| 56 | ‘ No 1 ’ was small , but ‘ Carlisle ’ , built in 1865 , was a largish engine with tender and we soon got to know that Whitaker would let us onto the footplate . |
| 57 | We were down to Halflight , sliding through the tangle of the Lagoon Nebula interlink , making our way towards the secondary GalacNet lines that would get us to the sector containing the Ixyphal system . |
| 58 | A two minute drive of heart stopping intensity , foot flat on the board across the open runway , would get us to the other side . |
| 59 | That would get us to the start of the season . ’ |
| 60 | It would remind us of the days of our youth mixing with Greeks and Arabs and Armenians in strange corners of the world . ’ |