Example sentences of "would [vb infin] us " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tears burst from his eyes when we were leaving South American soil and stepping aboard the cargo ship that would deliver us in Panama . |
| 2 | Which would cover us for Friday and Monday 's loadings . |
| 3 | He would prefer us to be in the position of the person who learns to trust that a friend has posted a letter , and who does not go out to be certain that the letter has found its destination , a search that in fact would portray not faith , but a lack of faith . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | I personally would prefer us to be looking at some way of allowing greater scope for debate at section conferences , and where necessary to have decisions on general issues deferred to Congress for ratification or withdrawal . |
| 6 | Mr Lind used to ride Bess and , on occasion , would lend us Bonnie . |
| 7 | I think the way we behave tells the other residents how we react when someone dies ; and so it 's almost like they 're watching us to see if we behave in a way they would want us to . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Therese would want us to finish dinner first . ’ |
| 9 | Of course , the Scottish Office runs a number of public information campaigns and I am quite sure that the hon. Gentleman would want us to do that to encourage the improvement of health in various ways . |
| 10 | We felt that silence would make us safe . ’ |
| 11 | Ladies and gentlemen , he would say , Ladies and gentlemen , now it gives me very great pleasure to introduce the woman who is responsible for holding this whole show together ; the woman who first understood all those years ago that there was crying need for a place where all you lovely people could gather of an evening , the one that we all know and love , and so … would you please welcome on stage , the very lovely , the very talented … once again … our very own … and sometimes he would fade out , and not even say her name , and he would pause , he would make us wait , he would suspend his elegant hands over the keys ; and then , in that silence , he would play the first notes of the actual song itself . |
| 12 | In some other far-flung continents not even the plants can be trusted to leave your flesh intact , and exotic colourful insects that would make us reach for our cameras here land on your arm and lay eggs in it . |
| 13 | In addition , it would make us far less likely to eat for the wrong reasons . |
| 14 | However , doing them would make us feel better and re-energize us ! |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Yet discussions of the threat to public service broadcasting have ignored not only the potential for change but also the deficiencies of the existing system which would make us question its benefits and its claim to permanence . |
| 17 | I 'm sure that it would make us more careful the months before . |
| 18 | I know from my own mother , who found love at 73 and would make us all smile as , like any lovesick teenager , she held hands , blushed , giggled and danced with her new partner . |
| 19 | It would make us a lot safer and cars may not go as fast . |
| 20 | The judiciary only resort to disciplinary action in the most blatant cases , where the alternative would make us look even worse . |
| 21 | Erm so quite apart from fro from that , this approach to the whole question concentrating on parental investment and female choice would not only make us sensitive to female choice in the sense of either submitting to a male or not but secondly it would make us er wonder what happened even after a female had mated and we could predict could n't we that females ought to be discriminating abou about the subsequent fate of any fertilized erm zygote and indeed there 's plenty of evidence to show that human females highly discriminated and far from passive even after they 've been fertilized . |
| 22 | Forgetting , of course , that our goodbye is a contraction of God be with you which , if uttered in full today , would earn us a rightly deserved raspberry for insincere piety . |
| 23 | No longer were we ‘ engagé volontaires ’ , who could be treated as nothings — we had proved ourselves to the instructors on our course , and henceforth they would treat us as legionnaires and expect us to behave as such . |
| 24 | I think he would treat us a little bit , o the way he treated Nicodemus and come in pretty quickly , and deal with the real issues . |
| 25 | But we were convinced we could make the series without the need to accept a ‘ marriage-offer ’ — another favoured Channel Four model — which would mean an established production company would absorb us and our ideas and take the commission . |
| 26 | We regularly discuss this matter with the Republic of Ireland , as any deficiency on its part would hurt us , too . |
| 27 | And erm you know and I had a letter then from Mr , saying that they would consider us for a place , in the flats . |
| 28 | Cotton would catch us with our trousers down , and no mistake . ’ |
| 29 | The boss said we could n't go outside because employment inspectors would catch us , and so everyone was fed and slept in the factory . |
| 30 | Mikhailov was quoted by the Washington Post as saying that Russia would need US help to dispose of its stockpiles , and that the commonly cited figure of 27,000 warheads was " the lowest estimate . " |