Example sentences of "our [noun] [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our mum said it was a fantastic , she 'd never been , she said her and her mate was wetting their knickers all night . |
| 2 | In fact the power that is called God is beyond definition ; it is , as is stated of Brahman , ‘ neti , neti , — not this , not this ’ , and in our attempts to define it we are seeking to describe the indescribable . |
| 3 | Most of these problems are to do with the nature of conversational English , which still suffers badly from our attempts to describe it using models which originate in earlier studies of the written language , and which have been influenced by what I can only call our innate desire for things to be neat and regular . |
| 4 | ‘ Irony ’ is a strategic term that indicates the capacity of poetry to resist or elude our attempts to reduce it to conventional modes of expression . |
| 5 | We know we 've got a superb quality product that 's why we 're happy to risk our money to prove it . |
| 6 | Our enemies know it and seek advantage from it . |
| 7 | ‘ If we are called out to a bonfire which potentially could cause damage , it is our responsibility to put it out . |
| 8 | Too many customers walk away unhappy with the ‘ solution ’ to their problem or , worse , without any real attempt on our part to resolve it . |
| 9 | Forget the snobbery and mystique that surrounds wine appreciation — our course makes it accessible to one and all . |
| 10 | Our forefathers saw it only as a gesture . |
| 11 | As the season goes on our baits make it a better swim . |
| 12 | Our cheery waiter seemed genuinely concerned at our inability to eat it , and tried to encourage us : ‘ You no like aubergine ? |
| 13 | The case of the Tari Furora paralleled that of the Melanesians in ‘ Marie Lloyd ’ , but it is to his ideal City , and his actual urban Western civilization that Eliot relates this Papuan discovery : ‘ … if we are so helpless in the hands of our ‘ civilization ’ that we admit our inability to prevent it from ruining Papuans , what hope have we of saving ourselves ? ’ |
| 14 | Our clients understand it ceased trading on December 24 and it follows that the reference NatWest gave was worthless . ’ |
| 15 | Although our guards said it was irrelevant to our situation , we were worried that any hopes of freedom might just vanish . |
| 16 | It should be noted this is a Post Graduate course , and it is not our intention to include it in the main embalming course . |
| 17 | We are committed to it and it is our intention to make it the centre of a big programme of tennis in the city . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ A big club like Arsenal have got to go for every major honour , our fans expect it . |
| 19 | And although three quarters of our teenagers thought it best to wait until 16 before losing their virginity , the younger boys say they feel under pressure to have sex and reckoned they 've got even less information to equip them for a sex life . |
| 20 | As our authors put it : |
| 21 | Our food is of the highest quality ; our ingredients prove it . |
| 22 | The potential of joy is vastly greater than our capacity to absorb it all . |
| 23 | The butcher boned our turkey to make it easier to carve , and we made a stuffing with packet mix and a few clever extras . |
| 24 | My mother was very kind — she was very fond of music , of Wagner in particular — but I do n't think our parents found it very easy to understand my brother and myself , especially as we had our own private language which no one could work out . |
| 25 | We knew that there was a current of dissension about your arrival in England , and our Intelligence made it clear that there would be demonstrations against you . ’ |
| 26 | As I say we take our tuple push it through our decoder and get our state here J that 's the easy bit . |
| 27 | Our judges found it very hard to choose the winners — the entries were all so good . |
| 28 | I think that part of our business makes it more difficult because ah the purchase of Allied Carpets by Carpetland is the space of the market at a fairly speedy rate and I personally believe other retailers will have the policy to sub-let surface areas in the next few years so it 's something we got on with three years ago and very pleased we did it . |
| 29 | Our business concluded it was decided we should go to Jeddah as quickly as possible to visit the Hospital . |
| 30 | As trustees we have a responsibility to respect the natural world , which acts as a constraint on even our need to pollute it to keep costs down . |