Example sentences of "[prep] us [vb mod] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It speaks confidently of the existence of a wilderness in Britain which , like the wolf , many of us may have regarded as extinct . |
| 4 | 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 ? |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Some of us may have taken part in an academic survey ; most of us will have taken part in the census . |
| 7 | Before the Dewhurst Stakes , you felt sorry for his opponents and if he had been a man coming into a room for the first time , the rest of us would have looked round anxiously to see our wives ' reaction . |
| 8 | Let's be honest and admit that any one of us would have found our patience being stretched a bit thin ! ! |
| 9 | Only a century ago , a fair proportion of us would have died in childbirth , or been dubbed dowagers by 40 . |
| 10 | Perhaps more of us would have accepted that marriage was not necessarily a licence for eternal happiness if those in the position to influence us — such as agony aunt Marje Proops — had been as honest as Mr and Mrs Toye . |
| 11 | Then , credit is seen as a necessity ( Appendix II ; section 1 ) : ‘ You buy on credit to make ends meet … . ’ , ‘ none of us would have things if it was n't for catalogues ’ , ‘ … when you want to replace anything you are forced to use HP because you do n't have the cash ’ . |
| 12 | If the Church would only have more faith in Carey and the wise words of moral guidance that he offers perhaps more of us would have faith in the Church . |
| 13 | Indeed there were mistakes , terrible ones , both of us would have avoided if we could . |
| 14 | Nowadays we are so scattered about the country that it is very unlikely that any of us would have a Stainey just around the corner who could be relied upon to put up a first class polish . |
| 15 | To get the tyres out of the oven two of us would have a long rod each . |
| 16 | Well , at those prices I 'm sure none of us would have wished to accompany the old snob . |
| 17 | Had he come , I suspect only one of us would have returned . |
| 18 | If I really had to spend a long time hurting someone slowly , I 'd have to use a blindfold : them or me , one of us would have to have their eyes hidden . |
| 19 | I think that it is fair to say that , if hon. Members on either side of the House had realised 10 years ago that we would be debating a sum of almost £2 billion , none of us would have recommended the one-track community care solution that has been adopted . |
| 20 | He kept talking about wanting to put things on to a sound financial footing , in which case none of us would have been able to afford to live in the club . |
| 21 | Which would have been very attractive , unobtrusive and none of us would have been against it , and when they came to put in the application to convert it , making it a meter wider and turn that into an extra bedroom or whatever was , we said that there was no parking , and we said what would happen and East Devon went ahead and approved that , and exactly in everything we 've said which was recorded in this council |
| 22 | Thank you Chairman erm I do n't I need to say a great deal because the comments that have been made I think are very thoroughly and expertly covered most of the ground in terms of the the issues that are being raised and can I say that although er a number of Chief Officers , a number of departments and I suspect a number of committees will be looking at what has happened and er seeking in both to find out why it has happened and what might be done in the future erm I certainly recognize that it 's er a role responsibility of this committee and of er me and the Planning Department to consider the implications for strategic planning and for the related functions and that erm it wo n't be a , a , a happy task because er purely it 's something that all of us would have hoped had n't happened at all but I will er very er thoroughly er explore the issues and report it back . |
| 23 | Many of us would have liked to have seen the savings that were made , recycling of the passenger transport area . |
| 24 | Without John I doubt is any of us would have got past the first post . |
| 25 | Without John I doubt if any of us would have got past the first post . |
| 26 | A lot of us would have to walk . |
| 27 | The Rev Aaron Longwe , who has been detained and tortured by the regime for speaking out about corruption , told a gathering of former missionaries at the Kirk 's headquarters in Edinburgh : ‘ If it were not for the Church of Scotland some of us would have been dead by now . ’ |
| 28 | Most of us should have some clues as to why we are as we are . |
| 29 | DAVID MELLOR has gone to the back benches nursing the belief that since he told John Major all about his expenses-paid holiday it made it okay and if life were fair none of us should have considered him out of order . |
| 30 | I mean every every one of us should have a copy . |