Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] we [conj] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has come to tell us that the feast is about to begin and we must go down immediately . ’ |
| 2 | Mr Kerfoot said : ‘ No one came to see us and the opportunity was lost . |
| 3 | In Shrewsbury our lord abbot has given orders to seek out all those who came to help us when the river rose into the church . |
| 4 | One day Johann came to tell us that the King was now very sick , and that Antoinette de Mauban and a doctor were looking after him . |
| 5 | A DESPATCH from Rome in Thursday 's newspaper seemed to tell us that the Pope has been urging sex education for priests . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , he thought it necessary , and we agree , in the context of this case , to attempt to satisfy us that the United Kingdom is not in any event in breach of the Convention . ’ |
| 7 | First , and parenthetically , it serves to remind us that the difference between the interests underlying individualism and holism is not merely the difference between showing why something happened to happen and why it had to happen , and thus between descriptive and counterfactual forms of explanation . |
| 8 | It serves to remind us that the collapse of the old political certitudes in Eastern Europe and the awakening of new political alternatives to market capitalism are precisely of a piece with the erasure of the old artistic ‘ avant-garde ’ and the ceaseless searching for the ‘ new ’ . |
| 9 | He would love to split us and the Americans and to complicate our inter-Commonwealth relations . ’ |
| 10 | Not only has science failed to solve all our problems , it is increasingly viewed as a monster which threatens to destroy us and the planet . |
| 11 | So now goat keepers are hoping to convince us that the meat is both tasty and nutritious . |
| 12 | The usage embodied in the first of these quotations is now well established in the literature , and the sentiments expressed in the second serve to remind us that the idea of the ultimately contingent nature of what is often taken to be ‘ natural ’ has a long and distinguished pedigree . |
| 13 | Well erm I know there 's enough people around , the Prime Minister is trying to tell us that the recession is over and so is the Chancellor , well yes , unemployment has now gone under forty thousand within Hertfordshire , it 's under forty thousand just . |
| 14 | But attempts to convince us that the eating of meat and fish is an evil invasion of the inalienable rights of animals and that it should cease forthwith are a sham . |