Example sentences of "[noun pl] [to-vb] our [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " It was one of my bitterest hours to see our leader , only just home , having to throw up the sponge in front of the men he lived for " . |
| 2 | ‘ We 'll have to look for hours to find our spaceship . ’ |
| 3 | And in terms of unity there is n't a very good chance of unity with British feminists right now in this country because whenever we start discussing our issues , out comes the racism , out comes the attempts to monopolise our struggle . |
| 4 | It is like saying ‘ when we have restored our credibility , we shall take firm steps to restore our credibility ’ . |
| 5 | How did we allow these destructive influences to kill our club ? |
| 6 | ‘ There was a year of negotiation before the deal was closed and we refused their persistent demands to increase our offer of £750,000 , ’ Muddle says . |
| 7 | A jolt , and a voice booming through loudspeakers to announce our arrival in France . |
| 8 | We do therefore need more new mums OR MUMS-TO-BE to strengthen our group again . |
| 9 | Since we know that the periodicity of some variables is longer than the monitoring already carried out by human beings , we must make use of surrogate or proxy variables to extend our range of knowledge ( such as via tree rings , palynology , oxygen isotope ratios from ice cores and geomorphological evidence of environmental change ) ; |
| 10 | A great many of them , certainly those who are the prime candidates to read our magazine , are strikingly different as fathers than their fathers ; they 're also different lovers , husbands , bosses and sons . |
| 11 | MMC recommended that our corporate plan include some specific quantified medium term goals to measure our efficiency and quality of service . |
| 12 | It also tells us : ’ Although there are now additional opportunities to expand our share of the YT market , the funding arrangements are considered inadquate to make such a move worthwhile . |
| 13 | It would have been a more complete list had Wirral and St Helens authorities not instructed their schools to ignore our request for information although some Wirral schools did reply . |
| 14 | These trees , in full sunlight , were growing more vigorously than the forest trees and produced enough pods to make our life easier . |
| 15 | Poetic speech does not differ from ordinary speech just because it may include constructions or vocabulary not found in everyday language ( the lo ! s thous and word-order inversions conventionally allowed in English poetry ) , but because its formal devices ( such as rhyme and rhythm ) act on ordinary words to renew our perception of them , and of their sound texture in particular . |
| 16 | We welcome this opportunity to restate our position and encourage other units to follow our lead . |
| 17 | Because we need to raise twenty five percent more in branches and shop donations to hit our target . |
| 18 | The clearance procedure involves a review of the circumstances to confirm our competence to act which should be carried out by two independent MAS partners plus a senior partner the names of whom are available from CFSU . |
| 19 | We are a small charity dependent on subscriptions and donations to continue our work from everyday monitoring of planning applications to fighting larger campaigns to protect rivers , ancient woodlands and areas of outstanding beauty . |
| 20 | Support this motion , it 's important that free marketeers are n't given licences to destroy our environment . |
| 21 | There is sufficient money in balances to pay our share of that , if we need to do so , and I think making scare stories about it does n't do anything towards what I hope we all want , which is an efficient , effective police force in this county , protecting us erm from crime , and helping to prevent as much crime as possible . |
| 22 | There was what seemed to be an endless round of meetings to discuss our coverage , with Ford personnel up to and including European vice-presidents . |
| 23 | Although we were terrified that they would find where we had hidden our film equipment , it was easier for us than for our crewmates to express our anger , and we blustered the officials off the ship . |
| 24 | Towards the end of 1992 managers and employees met several times to discuss our organisation structure , the new skills we needed and ways of improving our communication . |
| 25 | We need alternatives to enrich our choice for decisions . |
| 26 | I 've been in Denmark with Kent for 3 days to see our brother-in-law & niece ( ( 's sister died Oct , '91 of a second brain tumour ) . |
| 27 | He made appointments to see our solicitor that afternoon , and the bank manager the next . |
| 28 | It took us eight very wet and almost windless days to inch our way up the ninety miles of the Bouton Straits before we could turn eastwards into the Banda Sea . |
| 29 | According to the Theory of Relativity , time passes more slowly for objects moving very swiftly ; thus a spacecraft moving at close to the speed of light would take more than 100,000 years to cross our Galaxy , as observed by the rest of us , but only a few years so far as its crew were concerned . |
| 30 | This excellent prize comprises no less than nine pieces to help our winner set up home . |