Example sentences of "[subord] [art] [noun] would [verb] us " in BNC.
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| 1 | The judiciary only resort to disciplinary action in the most blatant cases , where the alternative would make us look even worse . |
| 2 | He was a man of considerable literary taste ( I must report , in all modesty , that he subscribed to the Informer and never missed these ‘ jottings ’ ) who died , so the authorities would have us believe , by falling into an empty swimming-pool when drunk on hard-to-come-by malt whisky . |
| 3 | ‘ Well , so the stories would have us believe . ’ |
| 4 | He said he would wait to see if the Caliph would reward us for forcing the breach . |
| 5 | When we did meet a dog , we always stopped to chat with the owner — if the dog would let us ! |
| 6 | But this would mean that Tristan was the son of King Mark , not the nephew as the legend would have us believe . |
| 7 | The question whether a capacity for error reflects our divine intelligence or is , as the theologians would have us believe , an invention of the flesh and the Devil is by no means a trivial issue of medieval scholasticism . |
| 8 | I think it 's quite proper for us to be importunate and hammer on the door and say it again as , as the deliverance would have us say , and I 'm sure our Roman friends will understand our importunity . |