Example sentences of "few [prep] we [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since then he has created a garden few of us would aspire to after a lifetime of gardening . |
| 2 | Few of us would want cream distemper with rough and ready dark graining — except perhaps in a listed building or outside privy . |
| 3 | Few of us would fail to realise that adulthood is not a matter of years but of sexual development . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | If we assume no tax being paid on earnings , but paid instead on spending , few of us would object to VAT on general goods being increased . |
| 6 | A few of us may become angry , but most of us have to be pushed a long way before we abandon our normal passivity . |
| 7 | And like the black writer , James Baldwin , few of us can resist the temptation of blaming the present — at least in part — upon the past . |
| 8 | But the reality is far , far different , and few of us can take that much reality . |
| 9 | Very few of us can afford all of the appliances we would like all at the same time . |
| 10 | ‘ The Esquire article was a disgraceful attack on a man who needs defending in a way that few of us can imagine . ’ |
| 11 | A diminishing few of us will continue to come out of sheer love but many will not , especially the young . |
| 12 | Few of us will go through life without transgressing some rule of public law , the result of which will be the imposition of a financial penalty or perhaps , in more severe cases , deprivation of liberty . |
| 13 | I think few of us could avoid becoming attached to such a fish ! |