Example sentences of "our [noun] for [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | Many of us here present today have worked for our employers for over two years so we have some protection under law . |
2 | The National Trust was founded to protect the best of our heritage for ever . |
3 | Some of us have to learn to forgive our parents for not being the people we might have wanted them to be . |
4 | I 've been working in our infirmary for quite a while now , that is , when I 'm not having my ordinary lessons . |
5 | 3 Linton Lodge have overbooked and our booking for tomorrow ( Thursday ) night for the whole party has been moved into the following hotel : |
6 | The man behind the final stages of the planning was the then Deputy Chairman of the Board , Mr J M Woolf , CB , a great advocate for and a frequent visitor to the cutters who had seen our need for more sophisticated and faster boats . |
7 | He was certainly one of manager Laurie Scott 's best signings and was an immediate choice for our team for over two seasons , coming out as Palace 's top scorer in 1953–54 . |
8 | For all people will walk every one in the name of his god and we will walk in the name of the Lord our God for ever and ever . |
9 | So I clung to the concept of ideal love for you , at the same time hoping for the even more impossibly ideal physical fulfilment and completion that would seal our closeness for ever . |
10 | We must put him out of our hearts for ever , he said . ’ |
11 | That bitch has been a thorn in our flesh for too long . |
12 | We have been living beyond our means for too long and had better start tightening our belts . ’ |
13 | I 'm not at all sure about the relevance of the last of these qualifications to the proceedings this evening but I am sure that all the other qualifications and all the rest of the experience conspire to make John Cruikshank an eminently suitable lecturer on our subject for tonight , which is ‘ Proust : Novelist and Explorer ’ . |
14 | The Bundesbank was heavily criticised by our Government for not coming to the rescue of the pound on Black Wednesday when we were forced out of the ERM . |
15 | HOMECOVER , our Home Insurance Scheme has been in operation for the benefit of our members for over eleven years . |
16 | If you are granted one of our mortgages for more than 80% of the purchase price or valuation , then you will also be required to take out a mortgage guarantee indemnity policy . |
17 | Mink have bee part of our wildlife for barely 30 years , but they are already common in most corners of the British Isles . |
18 | We may have moved on from the steel nib and the blackboard , but are we not educating our children for much the same reasons as we were 50 years ago ? |
19 | There is , however , another side of the story — and this will be our end for today . |
20 | As the chair is attached to Corpus Christi College , she had to resign her Fellowship at Somerville , where she had taught our biochemists for over twenty years . |
21 | ‘ You see , we 've only just eaten our lessons for today , and it 's made us feel rather sick . ’ |
22 | Due to a limited response to their invitation , the steering committee felt frustrated because they were being thwarted by the very establishments that were meant to help prepare our youth for tomorrow to spread the ‘ Word ’ . |
23 | They can sell these tubes of heroin in our country for perhaps eighty thousand pounds . |
24 | Now we have this highly dynamized remedy our criteria for how to use them are different from those of the centesimal scale . |
25 | Margi wo n't be off our screens for too long , though . |
26 | If any of you attacks your brother from now on , if not ordered to do so by a superior , that attacker will be enslaved and used for chirurgical experiments in our laboratories for as long as he lives . |
27 | So , we if we our receptionist if we can say those are our key specifications , again it 's a loose idea this is not easy sometimes to look into it , partly because we 've been in our jobs for quite a while and you know we do n't , we can clarify it , but think about your subordinates and people that might be trained . |
28 | As well as being the biggest flock of this species in our region for almost 20 years , it is the first report anywhere on our coast since the above-average influx last autumn . |