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

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1 ‘ Third , ’ the Doctor said , as Bernice whirled to see an open doorway where only seconds earlier there had been a flat wall , ‘ I imagine those androids would prefer us not to attempt to escape , in the TARDIS or in any other way .
2 Although these are of critical importance , it is not particularly obvious how either a free market in broadcasting or ideological diversity in the media would make us any the wiser about Iran , Iraq or the Lebanon .
3 In addition , it would make us far less likely to eat for the wrong reasons .
4 I 'm sure that it would make us more careful the months before .
5 It would suit us better than one of our own mobile sardine cans . ’
6 A strike would plunge us deep into the red .
7 ’ If that 's not a summary of failed inspiration , failed compassion , and the failed dream that would bring us together , then the Levellers are the next Sex Pistols .
8 He would bring us back ‘ on the deck ’ . ’
9 They would show us that much .
10 His appeal to the concept of a super-organism allowed him to present ecology as a science that would show us how to manage the natural productivity of an entire region .
11 The whistle would go , Whitaker would show us how to swing over the regulator and we would be away .
12 It would do us far more honour if you could succeed in obtaining a post under some other great lord .
13 To go into detail would carry us too far from the main pathway of this chapter , for you will remember that we are already out on a digression .
14 Their initial abuse would give way to laughter when they understood we were looking for a prahu which would carry us eastwards .
15 Even the least of these would give us vastly more sediment than we normally seem to find preserved for us in our stratigraphical record .
16 The misanthropic gardener elevates his roses and relegates his relations and if challenged , as well he might be , would give us possibly good reasons for so doing .
17 Erm and possibly the installation of mini roundabouts at the minor junctions erm would give us quite a lot of benefit .
18 A Saturday decision would give us very little time to alter our plans , ’ said the manager .
19 And when my grandfather came in he always had a pocketful of these tips , and he would give us all some sixpences and some threepennies . ’
20 And then she would look to Gary for him to begin the piano again , and she would look us straight in the eye for as long as possible , and she would sing :
21 I would never have believed then , that jealousy would tear us apart .
22 Well yes , but that , remember we provided for up to two hundred million which we thought would see us through to the end of ninety two .
23 Foreign investors would see us not as the launch pad to Europe but as some backwater .
24 ‘ A draw would keep us in with an outside chance of going to the States .
25 You thought it would stop us as good as they did .
26 All the policies that the hon. Gentleman and his party advocate would move us in exactly the opposite direction .
27 Yeah , it was a lovely house yeah but we wanted to come back to Harlow you see , so we did like , well we always liked Harlow , really the only reason we went to erm er Hatfield was the fact that Harlow Council no way would move us out of that maisonette , we had two boys and we lived upstairs and Gary had all sorts of accidents on those stairs , in fact we all had because they were outside , erm so in the winter they iced up
28 ‘ Of course , if I were with you , Nancy would have us all over to dinner . ’
29 After we woke , he would take us on to the bigger islands , known as the Big Bush ’ .
30 These rather gloomy thoughts were in our minds as we arrived , a bit soothed but still edgy , to find that the last ferry over the Rhone from Salin which would take us on to the road to Martigues had left at 11.30 and there would not be another until 2 o'clock .
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