Example sentences of "[prep] us [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From our very earliest days the sort of pattern of attachment we form with our parents or those that look after us will influence how we feel about any relationship later in life . |
| 2 | How can we guarantee that those who rule Chung Kuo after us will be good ? |
| 3 | Some of us might be young unmarried girls , others aged ladies of 40 or 50 . |
| 4 | And , while a little pressure can do us good — without it some of us might n't even bother to slither out from under the Slumberdown in the mornings — too much is definitely a bad thing . |
| 5 | Mr Nicholas Winterton , the Conservative MP for Macclesfield , a consistent Tory backbench critic of the reforms , said yesterday : ‘ I think the number of us might swell once the bill gets underway . ’ |
| 6 | Many of us might never be able to distinguish one variety of seed from another , but we have no trouble in telling an apple from a pear , or a cauliflower from a cabbage . |
| 7 | The rest of us might put the same thing in much more simple terms by voicing that popular complaint , ‘ When you 've eaten a Chinese meal you feel hungry again in a couple of hours . ’ |
| 8 | Some of us might go so far as to say that the Genesis account of creation is not literal history but myth in Lewis 's sense . |
| 9 | Woosie aside , most of us might score closer to the 100 with which Bernard Darwin won the first official Club meeting in 1893 . |
| 10 | ‘ Perhaps some of us might come down in great secrecy to visit you . ’ |
| 11 | Any of us might torture a stranger , even a friend , she says , if we are told to . |
| 12 | Er of course as we know or we might , some of us might know from er Brit . |
| 13 | You would think that one of us might scurry around for a new word instead of accepting linguistic hand-me-downs . |
| 14 | The rest of us might also stand in awe of his season . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Any one of us might be struck by lightning , but the probability is pretty low in any one minute ( although the Guinness Book of Records has a charming picture of a Virginian man , nicknamed the human lightning conductor , recovering in hospital from his seventh lightning strike , with an expression of apprehensive bewilderment on his face ) . |
| 17 | Ahead of us might lie a future of delight and discovery , a sparkling fountain of new experiences . ’ |
| 18 | Some of us might live to see it . |
| 19 | erm how long this system will go on for , well in order to be able to refer back to the nineteen nineties , who knows we might , neither of us might be here |
| 20 | Some of us might want to bid on it ! |
| 21 | In that case we will attempt to do this now and we 'll talk about interval naming afterwards those of you who can please attempt it there will be questions here that some of us ca n't . |
| 22 | Most of us ca n't do that . ’ |
| 23 | That 's the thing about drink : some of us can take it , and some of us ca n't . |
| 24 | The point is Mr Chairman , some of us ca n't now get to other appointments we 've got to make phone calls . |
| 25 | some , some of us ca n't even boil a bloody egg , I mean it 's , it 's ridiculous , you think to yourself what 's , what 's it all about at the end of your at the end of the day |
| 26 | Most of us get muddled , most of us ca n't find the right word , most of us ‘ um ’ and ‘ er ’ at various points as we 're talking . |
| 27 | When I get out of my train at Victoria and look about me at the other two hundred — mostly strangers , not least so those whose names as early schoolfellows dawn on me when they disappeared , — I sometimes think that one or two of us ought to speak out instead of just voting and making a remark in the complaint book once or twice a year and writing to a newspaper less often . |
| 28 | " But I suppose one of us ought to stay awake ; and if I take the first turn it 'll give me a chance to have a look at your paw , Hlao-roo . |
| 29 | Also , ’ said Fribble , glancing to the velvet couch beneath the forest window , ‘ also I do think that one of us ought to stay with Fergus . ’ |
| 30 | In Moments of Reprieve he remarks : ‘ What the ‘ true ’ image of each of us may be in the end is a meaningless question . ’ |