Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] our " in BNC.
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| 31 | singing for our supper |
| 32 | Having spent a fabulous time with the Easterhouse Women 's Group at the Wellhouse Community Centre , I have been encouraged to continue working on the issues central to my creativity , women , race and class — a wonderfully exciting picture to paint for our futures . |
| 33 | Of course , we hope that you will not just browse through our book in a bookshop , as you may well be doing now , but will buy and use it ! |
| 34 | The Sun Alliance Personal Accident Plan has been exclusively developed for our existing Sun Alliance Policyholders . |
| 35 | ‘ If we do n't join the European Community in full , I fear for our future , ’ says Mark Radcliffe . |
| 36 | Tears and anger flow back and forward and round fear , fear for our survival , fear of rejection , fear of loss of dignity and of life . |
| 37 | When Kingfisher , the owners of Woolworths , declare that they regard price promotion as their biggest marketing weapon , I fear for our trade . ’ |
| 38 | No matter how efficient the Institution , how quick its response times or how well it is known nothing would be possible without those who raise the funds to keep the RNLI running , and in reporting the reaching of the end of another financial year in an excellent position to plan for our future the Chairman extended his thanks once again to the fund raisers . |
| 39 | This sweeping view of our species makes it clear that we must urgently learn from our past to plan for our future . |
| 40 | As one of the United Kingdom 's leading industries , employing considerable numbers of engineers and scientists , we naturally have to plan for our future , which includes making sure that there will be adequate supplies of technical and scientific employees in the years to come . |
| 41 | As one of the United Kingdom 's leading institutions of Higher Education employing and educating considerable numbers of technicians , engineers and scientists , we naturally have to plan for our future , which includes ensuring that there will be adequate supplies of well educated technical and scientific employees in the years to come . |
| 42 | To carry through our Citizen 's Charter and provide high standards in public services . |
| 43 | Each ship has about 10 different bars catering for our guests day and night . |
| 44 | Two will go down , and unless fortunes change for our clubs the South will make up half of the Konica league next season , re-inforcing the ‘ poor cousins ’ reputation of North and Mid Wales . |
| 45 | Books on jogging , cycling , swimming , rowing , aerobics , and various exercise routines all crowd the bookshelves clamouring for our attention . |
| 46 | Initially at least , most of us find our thinking about Japan grounded in the differences we perceive between our own society and Asia 's New Giant . |
| 47 | They account for our general sense of the appropriacy and inappropriacy of language as reflected in impromptu observations about style , varying from Queen Victoria 's remark on Mr Gladstone that " he speaks to Me as if I were a public meeting " , to more everyday comments like " No one would ever speak like that " , and to attributions like colloquial , journalistic , biblical , childlike , pedantic . |
| 48 | Finally , these two characteristics of the artefact — its extreme visibility and its extreme invisibility — may also , through their relationship , in large measure account for our difficulty in appreciating the importance of material culture for social relations . |
| 49 | Apart from conjunctions and disjuncts which we have decided not to take into account for our current purposes , this is the only instance in which the theme of the clause is not the element that occurs in initial position . |
| 50 | Duke 's A and B lesions account for our 75% of cancers detected in asymptomatic individuals by initial faecal occult blood testing , while less than 50% of symptomatic patients are comparably staged at diagnosis . |
| 51 | Rolle suggests that this is begun in thought of the four last things : death , for " we lyve bot in a poynt " in " uncertente of owre endyng " ; judgement , when we account for our use of time " and ilk tyme we thynk not on God , we may cownt it als we have tynt " ( 4.95.19 – 22 , 38 – 9 ) ; heaven , the joy which is " mare any may tell " ; and hell , where also is burning in fire ( 4.96.46 – 7 , 54 ) . |
| 52 | The answer to that question , in essence at least , was provided nearly thirty years ago , by a perceptive schizophrenic introspecting about our own psychotic experience . |
| 53 | Hon. Members will be aware that at the same time as we consulted about our council tax proposals , we issued a consultation paper in Scotland about water and sewerage charges . |
| 54 | Dick Lucas comments : ‘ Such is our work and dignity in Christ , that any task undertaken for our master , however menial , is fit to be part of our service to the Lord of glory ’ ( The Message of Colossians , IVP 1984 ) . |
| 55 | ‘ After that he lived for our visits and started repeating ‘ Stroke , stroke , stroke ’ about six times . |
| 56 | In the street they stopped us and asked for our papers . |
| 57 | ‘ And we asked for our independence . |
| 58 | Both Frank and I had been telephoned , informed of remarks supposedly made by the other , and asked for our comments . |
| 59 | Sainsbury 's asked for our number and said they would call us back . |
| 60 | Then he asked for our passports , made some notes at the bottom of the itinerary and handed the passports back . |