Example sentences of "[vb pp] our " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Whilst we did lose volume slightly at the start of the year , we have outperformed our competitors during the vital summer peak period , ’ a Sealink spokesman said . |
| 2 | President Gorbachev 's record as fairy godmother to the cause of democratic revolution , first in Beijing and now in East Berlin , may have caught our fancy in the West , but to some in Moscow he must seem more of a wicked stepmother , turning the achievements of Socialism to dust wherever he goes . |
| 3 | But when we bring it out and examine it more closely it usually proves to be only trash whose glitter had caught our attention . |
| 4 | Twice I asked Ward about this , the first time just after we had come out of the cloud on the eastern slope of the pass and had caught our first glimpse of Cajamarca far away in the valley below , and then again when we stopped at the Baños del Inca to ask our way , the hot springs steaming beside the public baths . |
| 5 | On Thursday night we had a light supper after we 'd registered and unpacked our things . |
| 6 | The Drosophila studies have not solved the memory problem , but they have certainly supplemented our understanding of its biochemical mechanisms . |
| 7 | Yet , as Sharp expressed it , Christ taught ‘ that all mankind , even our professed enemies … must necessarily be esteemed our neighbours … so that the same benevolence … is indisputably due , under the Gospel , to our brethren of the universe ’ . |
| 8 | It required , in familiar language , ‘ all mankind are to be esteemed our brethren ’ . |
| 9 | He said : ‘ We have dominated our last two games and come out with only a couple of points . |
| 10 | Since handling of tools and weapons requires precise manipulation of the fingers and thumb , a dextral bias in hand preference for wielding these implements might have predisposed our earliest ancestors towards the use of the right hand for gestural communication . |
| 11 | I had never realised quite how the Iron Curtain distorted our perception of geography , making Prague , which lies west of Vienna , seem so eastern European . |
| 12 | We have so distorted our conception of higher education that it is difficult to realize the point . |
| 13 | We opened a new store in Christ Christchurch and rebuilt our North Shields site replacing the M F I store with a completely new one . |
| 14 | By the way , the ‘ box ’ had a had a hole in it ; disconnecting it from the air intake manifold and replacing it with a blank plug seems to have solved our original problem with no immediately apparent side-effects . |
| 15 | Maybe we should have solved our problems more quickly ( of course in a perfect world everyone always should ) , but better by far to have gone on and on , testing , probing , questioning and changing , until we finally had a solution which worked and could take us where we wanted to be . |
| 16 | Agree to work for me and we 'll both have solved our problems . ’ |
| 17 | Well of course I 've been saying for some time now , for some time , and I want to underline that , and I hope the government are listening that we 've had twenty thousand troops on our streets , we 've twelve thousand armed policemen on our streets , we have the strictest security laws in Western Europe , and none of these things have solved our problem . |
| 18 | There 's this old girl at er the top of the road you know , got them , she planted them half way down her garden , right , when they 'd grown to about six foot high she said we could have the rest of their garden , so we did , that 's how come our garden 's so big cos people give our , give us the garden |
| 19 | It 's he 's took our life over in a certain respect |
| 20 | He had forgotten our first fleeting encounter . |
| 21 | Clustered in the doorway of the stone hut , intent and fascinated by the spectacle before us , we had forgotten our own fighters . |
| 22 | ‘ Have you forgotten our suction-boots ? ’ |
| 23 | But here the lyrical content is downright embarrassing , with ‘ White ’ ( ‘ We have forgotten our spiritual nature ‘ Cause we are wrapped up in too much shit/All day/All night ’ ) , ‘ Full Tilt ’ ( ‘ Gunfire ricochet off my halo . |
| 24 | I have not forgotten our conversation about the need to get serious global environmental problems across to ‘ ordinary people in Wales ’ at a very personal level . |
| 25 | She had forgotten our language . |
| 26 | But as soon as we are tired of them and we have discharged our duties to society each day , we can say to ourselves : ‘ All those things are of the mundane , but I am of the transcendent , and therefore far above them . ’ |
| 27 | Here we were sorted our into groups according to the types of honours and quite a long wait ensued . |
| 28 | And we 've designed our defence system to prevent just that possibility . ’ |
| 29 | When designed our 486 PC , we made no compromises . |
| 30 | As we are committed to the idea of providing general managers with a progression of learning opportunities , we have designed our programmes to match these needs . |