Example sentences of "of we [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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1 | We 'll have a bit of this type of We 'll have , have a bit of that tying wire . |
2 | I reckon of we 'll see it now |
3 | It 's a version of We Can Work It Out … by cats and dogs . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | Any of us might torture a stranger , even a friend , she says , if we are told to . |
6 | Woosie aside , most of us might score closer to the 100 with which Bernard Darwin won the first official Club meeting in 1893 . |
7 | You would think that one of us might scurry around for a new word instead of accepting linguistic hand-me-downs . |
8 | Some of us might want to bid on it ! |
9 | 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 . |
10 | 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 . ’ |
11 | Ahead of us might lie a future of delight and discovery , a sparkling fountain of new experiences . ’ |
12 | Some of us might live to see it . |
13 | ‘ Perhaps some of us might come down in great secrecy to visit you . ’ |
14 | 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 . ’ |
15 | Er of course as we know or we might , some of us might know from er Brit . |
16 | Erm , some of us may go to tomorrow and |
17 | 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 . |
18 | Some of us may compensate for this by driving our cars like dervishes or creating dramas in our personal lives . |
19 | Some of us may see in these bloodied simian faces the image of our own hunting ancestors . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | With her grace , and a few prayers the rest of us may find for you , you can hardly go unblessed . ’ |
23 | 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 . |
24 | 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 . |
25 | A few of us may become angry , but most of us have to be pushed a long way before we abandon our normal passivity . |
26 | 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 . |
27 | It speaks confidently of the existence of a wilderness in Britain which , like the wolf , many of us may have regarded as extinct . |
28 | 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 ? |
29 | 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 . |
30 | Some of us may have taken part in an academic survey ; most of us will have taken part in the census . |