Example sentences of "[noun sg] that [pers pn] [modal v] [verb] us " in BNC.
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| 1 | My own personal rule for very many years has been that anybody is free to criticize me , to criticize the company , to question or argue against anything that we are trying to do — provided they will satisfy the one criterion that they will tell us what I or the company should do differently . |
| 2 | I was in favour of hauling him in last week , but the powers-that-be thought it better to let him remain at large for the time being , in the hope that he might lead us to his employers . ’ |
| 3 | Primate tool use has been studied by anthropologists in the hope that it might tell us something about our own evolution ; by psychologists trying to obtain a better understanding of problem solving and intelligence ; and by animal behaviourists simply because the use of tools among wild primates is part of their natural repertoire of behaviour . |
| 4 | No , does n't fit on it 's stopped recording change the change the tape so a su but going back to that she was so convinced that it was gon na be a heck of a job that she would save us time by taking all the clothes out putting them somewhere else and I said it 'll take us three minutes |
| 5 | In fact , Peirce 's explanation is metaphysical , resting on his panpsychist objective idealism : he rejects the use of natural selection in the explanation because the fact that a faculty was necessary for the commonsense inquiries which facilitate survival and reproduction is no guarantee that it will help us to describe reality . |
| 6 | I would not want to pre-empt any joyous , or even hopeful , news that he might tell us tonight . |
| 7 | I have been talking to the leaders in Medicine and Education and clearly there are many areas where we can and will be working together in telling the Government that they must support us in supplying quality services and that the Treasury is a support service , not the determinant of policy . |
| 8 | Perhaps the first thing that he will tell us is whether his hon. Friend cleared that article with him in advance . |
| 9 | Sir John said placidly : ‘ If that is the case — that he knows something we do n't — I have little doubt that he 'll tell us in the fullness of time . ’ |
| 10 | This letter is to confirm our agreement that you will provide us with an authoring program for Reading for English . |
| 11 | Perhaps , I said , there is another copy that they might let us photograph . |