Example sentences of "[noun sg] would [verb] [vb pp] we " in BNC.
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| 1 | The repair would have taken us over our budget so we saw this as God 's way to close the door . |
| 2 | I am sure that the hon. Gentleman would have helped us — |
| 3 | Totally unexpected because frankly no government , no civil service would have given us as much money for residential places as they did if they 'd known . |
| 4 | It was a wonder that we escaped so well , as we were afraid that the Waggon would have crushed us . |
| 5 | Having a baby would have taken us off the front pages , making us safe and dull again . |
| 6 | The word ‘ humanity ’ borrowed some of its force from the 1959 approach , but the rest of the definition would have taken us back to a test of manners based on an assumption of consensus which is at worst suspect and at best unproven , but which is to be measured only by outrage , surely an irrational and wholly subjective response . |
| 7 | Thanks be to God , and to our expert shepherding , for failure may have cost us enough , but success would have cost us and our heirs dearer far . |
| 8 | If we had gone on , our love would have brought us the death we secretly called up every time we embraced . |
| 9 | I 'm sure Yorick would have wanted us ’ |
| 10 | The new book was to be handed to me by the minister , the Revd Dr Adam Burnet , only after we had signed the register — no self-respecting hotel would have accepted us with different names . |
| 11 | ‘ Crumps , that stonework would have hit us a nasty crack-at the pace I was going . |
| 12 | The path forked when it reached an old log cabin ; left would have taken us to the top of Mount Eddy , right took us on the Pacific Crest Trail stretching from Canada down to Mexico . |
| 13 | ‘ I do not think if we had put down a motion which said we believe in motherhood and sliced bread the Labour Party would have backed us , ’ he said . |
| 14 | Cold , wet and tired , we pitched the tents , and fervently hoped that Stephen 's mother would have reported us missing , as she knew that we were usually good timekeepers and normally arrived when we said we would . |