Example sentences of "of we would [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 Most of us would strongly reject any such idea — yet the image of Eve has exercised a powerful influence on the way women have traditionally been regarded .
2 Given the choice , most of us would rather eat a choccy bar than a stick of celery , but good eating habits will pay dividends .
3 It eventually reached the point when one of us would simply talk to him about anything and everything until he 'd break and say , ‘ OK , you want me to talk .
4 But most of us would probably eschew the ostentatious and eccentric , and settle for an honest and straightforward run of bindings that have a plain tale to tell of their place and time .
5 Most of us would probably panic , think catastrophic thoughts , breathe rapidly , run away to a safe place , call out the doctor , and make a will .
6 Most of us would probably start off growing pelargoniums in a soilless compost but Hazel reports that they 're actually much easier to grow well in a loam-based compost .
7 But most of us would probably say that the Edwardian Era ended with the bullets that Gavrilo Princip fired into the body of Arch-duke Ferdinand on the 28th June 1914 .
8 This , I suspect , is everyone 's favourite town in the top half of the Pyrenees and where many of us would always choose to stay .
9 Whatever its form , most of us would never court it .
10 I 'm quite convinced that society could be run without money and every one of us would actually become far better off — not economically , of course , but emotionally and culturally .
11 Not the sort of thing any of us would usually discuss in public , but essential , I 'm afraid , in the present case .
12 Even Bleuler himself considered what most of us would now recognise as a truism : that ‘ autism ’ is a feature of normal mental life , accounting for the emergence , or in some cases deliberate exploration , of ideas that arise without logic from unconscious layers of the mind .
13 Outmoded this view might be , but most of us would still prefer to try on new clothes , wax hair off our legs , perform our ablutions or put on make-up in private .
14 The apple as symbol is all around us but most of us would still think of it first as a tasty snack .
15 And then , because we admired his beauty so much , someone would often say of him , as we were sizing up and judging the night 's array of talent , one of us would quietly say , The Price Is Right .
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