Example sentences of "[det] [prep] we [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was highly likely that only half of us would complete the training , he said , and that many of us would try to desert . |
| 2 | Half of us could continue to drown ourselves in usquebaugh and self-pity ( ‘ Here 's tae us , / Wha 's like us ? / Damn few/ All deid ’ ) , the other half could relax , relieved that the English would be continuing to do our thinking for us . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In the light of such a definition some of us would admit that we still have some growing up to do ourselves . |
| 5 | At the bottom is physics , the most reductionist of all ; above it there is biology ; then psychology and anthropology ; sociology ; and ( some of us would wish to add ) theology . |
| 6 | Comment : Some of us would like to be psychoanalysts . |
| 7 | The Rev Aaron Longwe , who has been detained and tortured by the regime for speaking out about corruption , told a gathering of former missionaries at the Kirk 's headquarters in Edinburgh : ‘ If it were not for the Church of Scotland some of us would have been dead by now . ’ |
| 8 | Some of us may compensate for this by driving our cars like dervishes or creating dramas in our personal lives . |
| 9 | Erm , some of us may go to tomorrow and |
| 10 | 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 ? |
| 11 | Er , we heard yesterday from some of your phone calls , and indeed we heard , and some of us may have seen on the television news on Wednesday evening , the desperate plight that many Iraqi civilians are now in . |
| 12 | Some of us may have taken part in an academic survey ; most of us will have taken part in the census . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Some of us may see in these bloodied simian faces the image of our own hunting ancestors . |
| 15 | Some of us might want to bid on it ! |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Er of course as we know or we might , some of us might know from er Brit . |
| 19 | ‘ Perhaps some of us might come down in great secrecy to visit you . ’ |
| 20 | Some of us might live to see it . |
| 21 | That 's the thing about drink : some of us can take it , and some of us ca n't . |
| 22 | Perhaps some of us could meet at the West Ham match . |
| 23 | Well in that case I expect , you know , some of us could become a caretaker if they 're having to pay us |
| 24 | It might be a laugh if we some of us could communicate like this too . |
| 25 | ‘ Some of us could try the woods on either side of the track leading down to the road — away from the belvedere . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Now , ’ said Marion , ‘ some of us must go back to that poor girl and put her decently in order . |
| 27 | There is however considerable interest among some of the younger members in doing this and there is a project that some of us will return to the Talyllyn when it can be arranged . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | And we had elaborate rules for , for doing this erm some of us will remember , but on the other hand a large number of people listening wo n't remember , though perhaps they were taught that . |
| 30 | Some of us will believe that we have done a good job during that period . |