Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] our " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of us believe that accidents always happen to someone else , which I suppose is how we are able to go about our everyday lives . |
| 2 | Further to my letter of 3 September 1992 , I am most grateful to you for your permission to borrow for our forthcoming exhibition on John Slezer the Slezer drawings of Edinburgh held by Edinburgh City Libraries , and shall be in touch with Miss McDougall about practical arrangements in due course . |
| 3 | And it 's our intention that that land should remain for our children 's children 's children , that 's the first point . |
| 4 | When we said a rather overwhelmed no thank you , he directed us to the V.I.P.lounge to wait for our flight — cream leather armchairs free tea , coffee or soft drinks , sandwiches , cakes and more free newspapers . |
| 5 | On the other , we have still to wait for our final adoption at the Second Coming ( Rom. 8:23 ) . |
| 6 | And that caused quite a bit of resentment , I can tell you — the Americans and the Japanese competing for our future . |
| 7 | We only discriminate between our mediated experiences by a conscious effort , finding ourselves watching comedy , beauty contests and international disasters from the same chair . |
| 8 | ’ Someone got through our security and got him out . |
| 9 | By this time the new cargo of contraband televisions for India was tumbling about our ears . |
| 10 | Some philosophers have distinguished between our ‘ subjective ’ and ‘ objective ’ duty , and said that our subjective duty is to do what we think most likely to be our objective duty . |
| 11 | In the first place , we all need to mourn for our own sins and for the negative contribution we bring into the world . |
| 12 | This leads us to mourn for our condition . |
| 13 | No snow had fallen during our stay at Glastonbury but the sky was growing overcast and threatening . |
| 14 | ‘ Why do n't you go and have a shower and decide what you 're going to wear for our dinner date tonight ? ’ |
| 15 | We went the wrong way to work with you , and were amply punished for our mistake . ’ |
| 16 | If we have to make a comparison between the individual approaches , I think that channel two felt we had to be punished for our sins while Channel 4 took the more sanguine view that for so long as love and sex exist , television might as well look on , an electronic voyeuristic intermediary . |
| 17 | The process of identifying and defining the target group , and the research required to do this , will usually have provided a lot of information , too , about how the consumer thinks about our brand . |
| 18 | But even then the East End of London could not have represented the rest of the country ; and even he plays for our pity , opening with a classic portrait of poverty and deprivation . |
| 19 | I 'm phoning about our dinner on the twelfth of November ; I want to discuss the seating arrangements . |
| 20 | This was staggering new information , and all kinds of ideas were flashing through our minds . |
| 21 | Interesting to compare as our players no better or worse than yours . |
| 22 | This chapter explores the relationship between age and several measures of inequality , drawing for our data on a nationally representative sample of elderly people from the GHS . |
| 23 | COVER DRAWING FOR OUR TIME |
| 24 | COVER DRAWING FOR OUR TIME |
| 25 | A devoutly religious person , she has arranged for our interview to take place in the church where she spends much of her free time , in advance of today 's Good Friday service . |
| 26 | A burly captain of the guard arranged for our horses to be stabled and immediately took us upstairs into what Agrippa called the Lion Chamber , a long , wooden-panelled room with black and white floor tiles which shimmered in the torch light . |
| 27 | I tell you , if I 'd have know what the content of the training was gon na be , I would 've arranged for our twelve crime prevention officers to go across there and listen to it , because there was a locksmith there that gave a lot of sound advice in relation to security of homes as well cars that really was good basic grounding for a crime prevention officer . |
| 28 | I 'm sure we 'll all be rooting for our boys in this one , or perhaps not , given that the only people who play it live in small towns in the Pyrenees . |
| 29 | We never had much to eat in ordinary times , but we had less now and us kids were really glad of the extra slice of bread and jam that we were given for our school breakfast . |
| 30 | A record shows , 'The inhabitants of the place said we never saw it in this fashion before ; we were left to wander and none cared for our souls ; but now a brighter day has dawned for us . ’ |