Example sentences of "[prep] our " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 'Avin' this place fer our meetin 's is a boon . |
| 2 | Whereas the consequences of tight inventory control seem to be accepted by the British consumer — the Marks & Spencer supermarket nearest our London office always seems to be out of chicken by mid-afternoon — it runs contrary to the habits of a typical American shopper , particularly one visiting a store that charges top dollar . |
| 3 | I am there to look after our people , and what good people they are . ’ |
| 4 | Some people said he was going to postpone it until after our party conference . |
| 5 | You may be interested in an event that happened to me after our Remembrance Service at East Kirkby early this July . |
| 6 | ‘ But you take after our line . |
| 7 | Our own choice was made soon after our move from the city and the switch from the desk to a spade and scythe . |
| 8 | Soon after our article ( perhaps as a direct result of it ) , it began to rain — and has barely stopped since . |
| 9 | After our election victory , Willie Whitelaw moved from the Home Office to become Leader of the House of Lords and his place was taken by Leon Brittan , who in a notable promotion became the youngest Home Secretary since Robert Peel . |
| 10 | In my diary , some time after our first meeting , I wrote the date of Dana 's birthday . |
| 11 | A natural tendency in times of recession is to batten down the hatches and look after our own needs , but as we sold raffle tickets in aid of our livestock projects in Uganda , people at the Royal certainly supported our scheme with cheerful generosity . |
| 12 | The voices of Surkov and Rozanov on tape , played over and over in my study in the first year or so after our meeting , had brought their living presence to me ; but later , as those tapes were discarded in favour of over-scrawled typewritten pages , Surkov and Rozanov increasingly became characters under my control , their improvisations almost lost under the refinements of a thousand and one nights ( and days ) of my own labour . |
| 13 | One week after our chat Jeff hit Ilona with divorce proceedings and everyone in the art world crowed that they had always known it would n't last . |
| 14 | Doubtless there will be a plaintive cry about ‘ a late Tory surge which was not in place until after our final interview batch ’ and other such excuses . |
| 15 | Pat Bliss , the Reading co-promoter , said : ‘ After our success in 1990 , we had to weaken the side to comply with the sport 's restrictions . |
| 16 | The morning after our big night out , Clay 's Aunt Dottie produced for lunch one of the best lasagnas I have ever tasted . |
| 17 | After our return to duty I received a letter from Leslie : |
| 18 | 4 ) ‘ My toddler sits in his highchair and demands more of everything in sight so we have to clear the table as quickly as possible after our meals — and out of sight appears to be out of mind ! ’ |
| 19 | The grandchildren always bathed in her kitchen rather than at home , and she ‘ looked after our heads ’ for lice , while after the bath the blind grandfather ‘ used to tickle our backs with stick in front of fire . ’ |
| 20 | A family who lived there befriended us , looked after our bags and , solicitous of each other , we took turns on the one spare seat from which they had moved a child . |
| 21 | However , one afternoon perhaps two weeks after our conversation in my pantry , I was doing something in the library when Miss Kenton came in and said : |
| 22 | A few weeks after our meeting I accepted his invitation to become a member of that Commission , which also included David Donnison , Noel Annan ( Lord Annan ) , John Vaizey ( now Lord Vaizey ) , and Bernard Williams ( then married to Shirley Williams ) . |
| 23 | Looking after our future |
| 24 | We may think we are an uncaring society but in this matter of looking after our own , we are most emphatically not : for every hundred old people only one is in a home and then often after enormous efforts to help them at home have failed . |
| 25 | After our visit to Baghdad and Amman , the Women 's International Peace Delegation had been planning to visit the US to meet with George Bush , but this was postponed when the attack on Iraq began on January 16 . |
| 26 | She 's after our Robbie . ’ |
| 27 | But first let us examine the facts and then ensure that we are looking after our physical selves as well as possible . |
| 28 | As George Male points out : ‘ It was done to foil any over-confidence we may have had for the next game , for he knew the opposition would go all out against us after our big win . |
| 29 | Meanwhile , complaints about station 1OAB competing with the commercial stations continued to plague the Ottawa board , and shortly after our decision to carry on as before , the CRBC abruptly cancelled our license to broadcast and ruled Station 1OAB off the air by the end of the month . |
| 30 | The full-length private coach was furnished in the fashion of a ‘ club car ’ in the Pullman Service , but it also had a medium-sized galley and a fully equipped bar , with a chef and two porters to look after our needs . |