Example sentences of "[vb pp] us [that] we " in BNC.
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| 1 | .. he has shown us that we can take on the Americans and beat them . |
| 2 | For industrial society has made a strange covenant with humanity : it has promised us that we can exist independently of nature , in the gilded cocoon of a technosphere that is no longer tuned to the archaic necessities of seed-time , harvest and the vagaries of the seasons . |
| 3 | In a letter , probably written at Stirling in April 1304 , Edward I referred to letters from Philip the Fair ‘ in which you [ Philip ] have asked us that we should be débonaires and merciful [ merciables ] ’ to the Scots who were about to meet him . |
| 4 | Driver explained that ‘ we have effectively been prompted by our supplier , who has warned us that we had better wean people off it . |
| 5 | ‘ Mrs Atkinson 's doctor has advised us that we should consider a transfer . ’ |