Example sentences of "that [modal v] [verb] [verb] we " in BNC.
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1 | Let me pick out three aspects that may help to guide us . |
2 | Waugh himself ca n't be blamed for the wrenching out of a context that might have helped us to understand whether he is referring to unhappy women , rendered so by not being content with their lot , or men , who are now being forced to lend a hand with the Hoover . |
3 | The only thing that could have stopped us was fog . |
4 | What a fine piece of historical irony it would be if from the heart of this wounded part of Europe there were to emerge a politics that would begin to show us how to be at home in the world , decently balancing the requirements of social justice and economic sufficiency , of finite nature and what we call human nature . |
5 | ‘ If I did not believe that , I would have advised our club president , James King , to go to a venue that would have made us a comparative fortune . ’ |
6 | This is really rather unfair because the only time we can really define correctly is in hindsight — when we have already found the solution and are merely inventing a definition that would have led us there ! |