Example sentences of "[prep] we would [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of us would pay lip service to the message of chapter 3 , that the clue to true beauty is to be found in personality and character . |
| 2 | We 've all experienced it and most of us would move heaven and earth to avoid it . |
| 3 | Few of us would want cream distemper with rough and ready dark graining — except perhaps in a listed building or outside privy . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | After all , while most of us would condemn escapism as a total way of life , our capacity to use our imaginations to construct alternative worlds into which we can temporarily retreat is certainly a central human characteristic and seems , on the whole , a valuable one . |