Example sentences of "[prep] our [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 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 | Tina Turner says of ex-husband Ike : ‘ I looked on him as big brother and mentor but , after our marriage , he revealed a terrible temper . |
| 4 | One day , soon after our night outside the castle , Princess Flavia and I were riding through the town when we saw a group of people dressed in black going to the church . |
| 5 | ‘ After our night together , when Peter turned up next day , you were so savage , as if you really did believe all those terrible things you were saying about me — I do n't understand why you changed so suddenly — ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Look after our friend here . |
| 7 | During my boyhood my special task in the family was to look after our cattle , sheep and goats ; therefore I had to go through this training , and afterwards taught my brothers . |
| 8 | ‘ After our celebration I shall take you to a solemn service , ’ he said , gripping my left ankle between his shoes . |
| 9 | ‘ Our policy has always been to look after our customers , not alone supplying them with greeting cards , but also providing them with the back-up services , such as merchandising , advertising material and general advice on how to lay out an effective display , ’ he added . |
| 10 | We want to look after our customers so that they will be around when things get better . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Whether they will look after our type of clients in the way they are used to being looked after is of course a different question . |
| 13 | After our break-up she went to Australia for a period . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | All the barges are of course self-catering , Berkhamsted has many well stocked supermarkets and delis , and Lindy was quite happy to look after our bags while we stocked up on provisions . |
| 16 | After our swim , we ran back to the little villa , laughing and clutching our clothes . |
| 17 | Pollock , 18 tomorrow , said : ‘ A Cup double after our mid-week Rumbelows League Cup success against Peterborough United would be great . |
| 18 | We kept to ourselves for the rest of the day , taking food from the buttery and retiring early for we were both still exhausted after our journey from England . |
| 19 | Could I S look after our machines . |
| 20 | Preparations for departure filled our thoughts and days : arrangements for Shanti to look after our correspondence for us and deal with our finances ; saying goodbye to friends ; making a list of unanswered letters to write while I was away ; contingency plans for situations likely and unlikely . |
| 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 | Alan Furniss , Midland 's manager of sponsorship and donations , said : ‘ The people who look after our sponsorship policy have decided we should be spending money on community-based acti-vities . ’ |
| 23 | I advise him and others to be extremely reticent in proceeding to the supposedly automatic system of introducing guillotine motions , especially after our experience of the past few years under the Government . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Erm now you 've had a chance first of all I after our chat er par particularly on the phone and I make notes of people who er I think come well across on the phone because you know how important that is to us . |
| 26 | Yeah I think they had their own little meetings in various pubs or whatever after our meetings , and certainly the management in one of the quarries seemed to have a lot of information about what went on in our lodge meetings because of various members of this clique , I think we were all fairly sure that they would be returning to work , it was just when that was the crunch . |
| 27 | She 's after our Robbie . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ No one comes to me after our matches to talk about what they could have done better , ’ said Durie . |
| 29 | th the bit that I found most interesting was at least the Board are trying to look after our interests in that respect . |
| 30 | He added : ‘ In the past three weeks there has been a positive feeling after our performance against Norway . ’ |