Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [vb mod] [verb] we the " in BNC.

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1 Are there any dead leaves on the ground which will tell us the kind of leaf which will soon clothe the tree ?
2 Perhaps this afternoon he will tell us the Labour party 's attitude to this imaginative development .
3 If they are rich , they can spend more on it , and will ; but there is no calculus which can tell us the optimum amount that we ought to spend on education , any more than on the relief of suffering and the cure of the sick , or on the arts .
4 We returned to Makassar from the Toraja highlands with dangerously diminished funds , realizing that we had been in Celebes for two months and that the chances of finding a prahu which could carry us the nearly two thousand miles to the Aru Islands were remote .
5 ‘ Sir John , I would be grateful for the loan of a groom who will show us the way to Abbe Gerard 's Church of St Pierre in Maubisson village . ’
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