Example sentences of "our [noun] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 We 'd discuss our budget and say ‘ are you able to support this as a viable budget ? ’ .
2 Councillor Brian Dixon fumed : ‘ Paying all this money is just not on when we face spending cuts in our budget and have 270 homeless people .
3 That 's the five hundred pounds that 's in our budget as opposed to in the the the personnel budget .
4 Instead we spend our energies in hard work so that we can afford to pay our taxes and enjoy the benefits of a comfortable and well-ordered life . ’
5 We regret the end of our schooldays but look ahead to the future with great hope .
6 ‘ No one 's going to upset our sister and get away with it . ’
7 Our experimental findings show how the subjects were working through these : in the first repetition , ( a ) was attempted rather amateurishly and ( b ) invoked by relatively few ; in the second repetition , many were beginning to apply ( a ) successively ( many put output in period eight equal to 250 which is where marginal cost equals expected price ) , many more were applying ( b ) and a sizeable number ( enough to effect our regression and probit results ) were invoking both ( c ) and ( d ) , though understandably the ( c ) effects were more pronounced .
8 Even when he 'd roared full-blooded into a spiny bush in pursuit of a tennis ball , he 'd ignore our gasps and head back for more .
9 But every so often , something will erupt out of nowhere , break through our defences and turn the well-ordered furniture upside-down .
10 We shall be wanderers , though we live in houses , for our thoughts will have gone far away and abandoned our possessions and entered the infinite heritage of the freemen .
11 You and I sit at our desks and try to work .
12 ‘ They wanted our money but did not want anyone to know where it had come from .
13 ‘ We wish , my brother and I , we wish you to take some of our money and to invest it for us in — in such places where you invest your own . ’
14 What we need is is equal incentives to take our money and put that money into private companies .
15 which was quicker , took her down to the mission , she stayed in the car till I went up to the mission to get our money signed for our money and come out and er
16 We 've heard tonight , and I do not believe it , a plea from Councillor , the Chairman of Social Services , that he wants ring fencing of Local Government money , I E the Government sends us our money and says , you will spend it on that and that and that and there will be now power of Local Councils to decide what the needs are in their areas and what their priorities are .
17 We dried off as best we could at the expensive on-site tourist hotel and , as the mist rose and a pale sun came out , paid our money and entered the site itself .
18 If the money so raised in a modern equivalent of this lottery is to be wasted on similar luxuries , it would be better if we saved our money or spent it on necessities .
19 We are going ahead with our projects and have no comment on what any other company says it does or does not own . ’
20 My conviction is that as we take action , and show that we mean business , we will find that it is at that point precisely that the Holy Spirit comes to help us in our weakness and change everything from a mechanical discipline to an encounter with the living God .
21 It is no use to sit back on our laurels and think OK , so we were there .
22 ‘ We have made the tough decisions that now are strengthening Canada 's competitive position , boosting our exports and ensuring our future prosperity . ’
23 The elimination of the green pound and the absurdity of monetary compensatory amounts , which tax our exports and subsidise our imports , was a major achievement which brought considerable financial advantages to my farmers .
24 There was an irredeemably old-fashioned ‘ welfarist ’ flavour to our proposals that did not appeal to many who were meant to benefit .
25 I invite the hon. Gentleman to reflect again on his knee-jerk reaction to our proposals and to tell us frankly whether he is in favour of them and on the side of the citizen , the user of services and the taxpayer or on the side of Rodney Bickerstaffe , the Confederation of Health Service Employees and NUPE .
26 To be aware of how our past can affect our present and to pray with others for healing can be vital .
27 There are more kil , children killed on our roads than die of disease , than die of malnutrition in this country , er many , you know and we just do n't take it seriously .
28 Health and safety also applies on our roads and bearing in mind , we may be acquiring a large transport section , we should be seen to take an interest in not only our members ' safety , but the safety of others as well .
29 Jack Nicklaus once said to me , ‘ Albert , when Weiskopf knows how good a player he is , we might as well all pack up our clubs and go home . ’
30 Despite Hugh 's remarks about downgrading our skills and devaluing wood , we are as concerned as the professional ( possible more so ) about ‘ promoting wood … as something with its own intrinsic beauty ’ , since we can put our heart into the work without worrying about whether or not it will sell , let alone whether it will sell at an ‘ economic ’ price .
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