Example sentences of "[v-ing] our [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He should have done that before instead of insisting on our groping our way up the Pan-Am Highway in darkness and bad visibility . |
| 2 | The third is that will have singularly little effect , because of industry 's narrow base and uncompetitiveness , revealing our dependence on the deus ex machina of North Sea oil . |
| 3 | We 've been prowling around all day on a level with earthworms and rusty , broken down appliances , pressing our ears against the hot wooden trapdoor to the cellar and hearing the silence of ghosts . |
| 4 | Basing our conclusions on the characteristics of boards that were successful in organising training , the following would appear important for boards attempting to make space for training : |
| 5 | If such stipulations are made for so mundane a practice as motoring , they would seem to be reasonable precautions for protecting our environment for the rest of time from possible damage by man-made creatures . |
| 6 | She was obviously under the influence of drugs , booze or both and as we approached , typically averting our eyes from the embarrassing spectacle , a girl of about 11 wiped a candle of yellow mucus from the woman 's nose and resignedly helped her to her feet , staring at us with old , resentful eyes as we passed , reminding me of myself and the Saturday afternoon rescue missions . |
| 7 | I suggest that we delay announcing our existence to the press until we have a name and clearly stated function . |
| 8 | As we climbed up the canyon we made a great clatter with sticks and stones and old tin cans , announcing our presence to the denizens . |
| 9 | After twisting our way up the long trail we finally reached the North Rim just after midday , feeling like redeemed souls struggling out of a magnificent inferno . |
| 10 | As trade unionists representing our members in the workplace , this is something we would be unhappy with , to go through a procedure with one of our members and know that that member has lost but not exactly know why . |
| 11 | Bartlett ( 1932 ) stressed idea that memories are stored , not as isolated traces but as part of pre-existing knowledge structures representing our expectations about the world , he termed these structures schemata . |
| 12 | Not because I directly res have some responsibility for representing our membership within the Health Service , but because as I said earlier this is my Health Service , this is your Health Service , it 's our families ' Health Service that we have enjoyed the benefits since nineteen forty eight . |
| 13 | We can not fully stretch out in it , nor sit upright without cracking our heads on the decking above . |
| 14 | As he declaimed we were weaving our way through the late-afternoon shoppers who thronged the centre of the town . |
| 15 | For some of us it 's pitting our strength against the elements , for others it 's pitting our wits against other people by going racing and yet other people seek adventure by exploring new sailing areas and the beauty of a small sail boat like the Topper is that you can do all of these . |
| 16 | Sir , — As the last senior partner of Dearden Farrow , I was interested to read the news item ( see ACCOUNTANCY , August , p 20 and this issue , p 111 ) relating our success in the action brought by Berg Sons & Co Ltd and Union Discount Ltd . |
| 17 | ‘ We need to start rebuilding our nations on the basis of our own interpretation of Africa 's history and cultural traditions . ’ |
| 18 | Next April 's meeting need do no more than put a tick alongside South Africa 's name and we can all start booking our tickets for the 1995 thrash . |
| 19 | Let us pray that we may find the contentment which comes from living our lives to the full and being concerned and thoughtful in our dealings with others . |
| 20 | We had to climb to FL070 maintaining VMC before we could contact Lisboa Military , and after passing our estimates for the TMA boundary , immediately requested the Porto weather and reports of CB activity . |
| 21 | Let me give you the text of a talk I gave to the Bridport Women 's Institute , before the Scandal , and when Julian and I were still developing our blueprint for the world of the future . |
| 22 | Introducing subscripts 1 and 2 for denoting our quantities in the two dielectrics , we may write |
| 23 | How , then , can we go about defining our strategy in the hope of getting them to react in the right way — the way we want them to ? |
| 24 | • When the activity of our kidneys is considered , a bed-time drink does not waken us by filling our bladders during the night , whereas a similar drink in the daytime causes urine flow to increase quite rapidly . |
| 25 | We became ‘ best friends ’ as schoolgirls do , pushing our babies to the park together on fine afternoons and on wet ones , sitting in each other 's flats drinking whisky — how we afforded it I can not now imagine — while our babies played behind the sofa . |
| 26 | On behalf of the Ulster Unionist party , I join other hon. Members in expressing our sympathy to the families of those who have been killed and to all who were injured in the incident at the Musgrave Park hospital at the weekend . |
| 27 | ‘ To make full use of it we should be publishing our books in the world 's biggest English language market . ’ |
| 28 | A brief outline of the events is that the editor of a major medical journal ( a ) republished a previously published paper solely in order to attack it in an editorial ; ( b ) did this without the authors ' permission , while stating the opposite ; ( c ) initially refused to allow the original authors the right to reply in his editorial criticism ; ( d ) published a further editorial attack when ( a year later ) he published an edited version of the authors ' response ; ( d ) refused to publish any other correspondence about the editorial attacks ; and ( f ) gave another editor a dishonest account of events to dissuade him from publishing our account of the affair . |
| 29 | As one of the losing bidders said : ‘ This is not sour grapes but political polls may be great for promoting our name with the public and for cashflow but they are definitely questionable on profit . ’ |
| 30 | If we are going to win , and win again , we must be as vigorous in promoting our cause as the Labour Party . ’ |