Example sentences of "[conj] [modal v] [verb] us [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm going to take you to a little place that 'll sell us a bottle of scotch in the back room , and nobody any the wiser . |
| 2 | If we win against both Spain and Japan that could give us a shot against South Africa in the quarter-finals , which would be tremendous news for Scottish rugby back home ’ , said Rutherford . |
| 3 | Even so , I thought it was worth persisting , trying to get her to remember noises , smells , anything that would give us a clue to where they were taken . |
| 4 | But our concern was to find a church in Scotland that would give us the love and teaching that our family needed . |
| 5 | You see the i it was er we used to make curtains then for Littlewoods , Littlewoods as it is now , they 're still , you know , the they were about the forerunners of the er tt this er catalogue business , and if they gave us an order that would last us a long time , and that usually the eight points , which was meant to say there were eight threads to an inch . |
| 6 | Sometimes an observant parent will notice something that will give us a clue ; after a child recovers from one of those high fevers that ‘ lay it very low ’ for a short time it is sometimes seen that the child is more ‘ well ’ than before it became ‘ ill ’ , provided the illness has not been inappropriately treated or interfered with in some way . |
| 7 | To discover that real face that is our own amongst the images , the image of a face that will give us a face once and for all time , remains a fantasy rather than a realisable project . |
| 8 | We 've had a couple of stoppages in the first half , not the sort that will give us the nine minutes of added time we had at Highbury on Saturday , but certainly a minute or two this evening . |
| 9 | So we always have to lay in stores that will last us a month or six weeks — a sack , or perhaps two , of flour , and groceries and so on . |
| 10 | Hefter and May give us no reason to modify this statement . |
| 11 | 's kept us on file and will give us the first date available in June . |