Example sentences of "of us [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Any of us might torture a stranger , even a friend , she says , if we are told to . |
| 3 | Woosie aside , most of us might score closer to the 100 with which Bernard Darwin won the first official Club meeting in 1893 . |
| 4 | You would think that one of us might scurry around for a new word instead of accepting linguistic hand-me-downs . |
| 5 | Some of us might want to bid on it ! |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Mr Nicholas Winterton , the Conservative MP for Macclesfield , a consistent Tory backbench critic of the reforms , said yesterday : ‘ I think the number of us might swell once the bill gets underway . ’ |
| 8 | Ahead of us might lie a future of delight and discovery , a sparkling fountain of new experiences . ’ |
| 9 | Some of us might live to see it . |
| 10 | ‘ Perhaps some of us might come down in great secrecy to visit you . ’ |
| 11 | The rest of us might put the same thing in much more simple terms by voicing that popular complaint , ‘ When you 've eaten a Chinese meal you feel hungry again in a couple of hours . ’ |
| 12 | Er of course as we know or we might , some of us might know from er Brit . |
| 13 | Erm , some of us may go to tomorrow and |
| 14 | We insist on an area of personal moral sovereignty within which each of us may prefer the interests of family and friends and devote himself to projects that are selfish , however grand . |
| 15 | Some of us may compensate for this by driving our cars like dervishes or creating dramas in our personal lives . |
| 16 | Some of us may see in these bloodied simian faces the image of our own hunting ancestors . |
| 17 | Any one of us may arrest a person who is , or who is reasonably suspected to be , in the act of committing an ‘ arrestable ’ offence . |
| 18 | In contrast to this , according to the emotivist thesis , the typical cause and effect of a statement like ‘ Personal affection is a great good ’ is not any kind of genuine belief , which could be true or false , but an emotional attitude of favouring personal affection , which each of us may find ourselves either sharing or otherwise , but which we can not properly call true or false ; it therefore has primarily an emotive rather than a descriptive meaning . |
| 19 | With her grace , and a few prayers the rest of us may find for you , you can hardly go unblessed . ’ |
| 20 | Politicians , accountants , television producers , newspaper editors and all such mandarins who have set themselves up as authorities with power to say yea or nay to us , to sift right from wrong , good from bad , lawful from criminal , and to decide what the rest of us may know and what we may not ( ‘ All the News that 's Fit to Print ’ ) exploit this wondrous paradoxical nature of language with uncanny skill to attain and retain their hegemony over others . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | A few of us may become angry , but most of us have to be pushed a long way before we abandon our normal passivity . |
| 23 | I call upon everyone to begin to work to create such an agenda in the coming months , mindful that each of us may have to make some compromises along the way if we are to end with something in which we all can believe . |
| 24 | It speaks confidently of the existence of a wilderness in Britain which , like the wolf , many of us may have regarded as extinct . |
| 25 | 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 ? |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Some of us may have taken part in an academic survey ; most of us will have taken part in the census . |
| 28 | Many of us may wonder why it has taken so long to achieve the last two objectives , but I am delighted that the proposal is now to go ahead . |
| 29 | We 'll get it all worked out and one of us 'll do the talkin' , all right ? |
| 30 | And I thought well she 's got two chances that way , either I could win , or she could win , or neither of us 'll win . |