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Example sentences of "[det] [prep] us could [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1	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 .
2	Perhaps some of us could meet at the West Ham match .
3	Well in that case I expect , you know , some of us could become a caretaker if they 're having to pay us
4	It might be a laugh if we some of us could communicate like this too .
5	‘ Some of us could try the woods on either side of the track leading down to the road — away from the belvedere . ’
6	I think few of us could avoid becoming attached to such a fish !
7	If each of us could play our own small part , those parts would link up , like the ripples on a pond , to make a earth-saving whole .
8	‘ Neither of us could sleep , ’ said her companion , falling heavily on to a seat .
9	We considered various possibilities , but as neither of us could drive far and neither of us could face airport hassle , we decided to go for a week to Wales .
10	Mum has rheumatoid arthritis and , as neither of us could manage the stairs , we shared the same room downstairs .
11	We considered various possibilities , but as neither of us could drive far and neither of us could face airport hassle , we decided to go for a week to Wales .
12	We 're talking about weapons neither of us could use without destroying ourselves and probably our whole planet .
13	Neither of us could claim that those exchanges have been free of the features that I have just identified .
14	Neither of us could wait to get the round over , we were so cold and miserable .
15	Then after a long while , during which neither of us could escape from her hatred and savagery , she 'd said tiredly , ‘ OK , Annie , we ca n't do it .
16	‘ I suppose that 's when we should have called a halt , but now I do n't know how either of us could bear it . ’
17	Before either of us could react to this confession , unexpected even to me , I ploughed on .
18	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 .
19	I doubt that either of us could survive such a lengthy association . ’
20	Looks like all of us could do with a bit of both . ’
21	Yes all of us could get burnt
22	How many of us could keep our
23	I tried again , saying we were trying to decide how many of us could get to this wedding and we wanted to look smart , but the only response was that he did n't want to hear anything about weddings , thank you .
24	There 's no way any of us could walk out of this station in uniform .
25	And , before any of us could do anything , she flitted like a ghost back into the trees .
26	‘ But he was the only tennis player that any of us could relate to .
27	You tell me how any of us could have chucked him over the balustrade even if the whole lot of us got together to do it .
28	Like many a mother faced with the apparent intransigence of her child , she ignored the rebuff and gave the servants the best advice any of us could receive : ‘ Do whatever he tells you ’ ( John 2.5 ) .
29	It is unlikely that any of us could remember the first time we saw our own reflection ( mirrors often form part of toys aimed at very small babies , such as activity mats or cot toys , and there are , of course , lakes , kettles and other possibilities for reflection ) ; what is likely is that it was a member of our family ( probably our mother ) who told us : ‘ That 's you , that 's what you look like ’ .
30	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 .