Example sentences of "our [noun pl] for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a timely reminder to us of the true value and cost of ’ rediscovered ’ writers , and a challenge to Black women writers , not just in the USA , but throughout the Black Diaspora to get our act together and chronicle our lives and our times for ourselves . |
| 2 | In the first , we detach ourselves from our preoccupations , even our plans for his service , quieten our minds and fix our attention on God , lifting our hearts in hope , trust , and love . |
| 3 | There 's another element which Your Lordships have not touched on to do with this land which is why er we are being very cautious about our plans for it and that is that er the union railways have indicated a requirement to lease two point eight acres of the land for site purposes from nineteen ninety seven to thousand and three er , but this will depend on the timetable for construction of the Channel Tunnel Link . |
| 4 | He could have slit our throats for us then and there and thrown us in the canal , likely as not . |
| 5 | Crown and Key establishments are being assessed by our inspectors for their quality standards right now . |
| 6 | " Running our risks for us are you — like El-ahrairah ? " |
| 7 | Accept this WWF pen with our thanks for your donation of £18 or more . |
| 8 | We 'd given our lives for their advancement . |
| 9 | We try to keep a part of our lives for something else — to which we give a name such as Recreation or Sport or Being a Mother to the Children or just Being about the House . |
| 10 | 1 John 3:16 goes on to say , ‘ And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers . ’ |
| 11 | But the value of so doing will still be measured against our purposes for them . |
| 12 | He moved as easily ; and like Chance Wayne at the height of his beauty you , or I , would just , well , would just have died for him , stopped in our tracks for him , stopped the car for him , fallen silent if we saw him cross the street or across a crowded bar . |
| 13 | ‘ It is , after all , what we brought you here for — to resolve our problems for us . ’ |
| 14 | Although SAVE believes that alternative uses are possible for most types of buildings , including churches , the Holy Name was an exception and our fears for its future increased with rumours of purchase offers from McDonald 's . |
| 15 | We would like to thank all our customers for their support in the past and hope that we will enjoy your continued support in the future and that of new customers . |
| 16 | We thank all our customers for their support over the past year . |
| 17 | Our best wishes go to those who retired from the Board during the year and we would like to thank all those who serve so tirelessly on our committees for their advice and guidance . |
| 18 | We would swop our lights for theirs any day . |
| 19 | He accepted all our arrangements for him gratefully . |
| 20 | What we are trying to say is that we do n't have to look to our mothers for everything . |
| 21 | There is a capital account surplus , or a net capital inflow , if our receipts from the sale of stocks , bonds , land , bank deposits and other assets exceed our payments for our own purchase of foreign assets . |
| 22 | If it means ‘ Will we have to pay more ? ’ , the answer is probably yes , unless we can compensate by reducing our charges for what we currently do . |
| 23 | We are grateful to all our contributors for their articles and for their forbearance when the Editor has not done with them what they were expecting ! |
| 24 | ‘ The attraction of the place is that it lies spot-on a ley line — an imaginary line linking a few hunks of granite scattered around the landscape , supposed to have been put there by our ancestors for their spiritual gigs . |
| 25 | We do , as stated earlier , have an overriding obligation to prepare our graduates for their future through provision of not only conceptual understanding but also practical experience across all sectors of the profession . |
| 26 | Our conclusions for what they are worth are set out and we come to a figure of about forty five thousand . |
| 27 | And yet we want to be able to exploit new opportunities and new technologies as they come along to get the best out of our systems for our businesses . |
| 28 | And when we decided intensive veg and livestock did not mix , our gentleman farmer/neighbour bred our pests for us . |
| 29 | A Ugandan pathologist studying African cancer trends was sceptical of Zimbabwe 's high lung cancer figures compared with other African nations until he had checked our records for himself . |
| 30 | Basil used to tease us about movement and chuckle at our claims for its fundamental importance in the education of young children . |