Example sentences of "[verb] our [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Curran said : ‘ I 'm convinced that to finish top of the table we must win our remaining two home games with at least a victory and a draw needed in the away ties . |
| 2 | Could you win our National Fun Run Trophy ? |
| 3 | Is it not Lord Lane to whom we should direct our innermost yearnings ? |
| 4 | In cases where clients are reluctant to accept our standard letter , and for further advice generally , reference should be made to Corporate Financial Services Unit . |
| 5 | In cases where clients are reluctant to accept our standard letter , and for further advice generally , reference should be made to Corporate Financial Services Unit . |
| 6 | More than any others in the alliance , we have stated our willingness to host and to accept our nuclear responsibilities during the years that such forces have been present in Europe . |
| 7 | But if we go on refusing to accept our true age and try instead to remain at a stage of life to which we no longer properly belong , then looking younger than our years is a false statement . |
| 8 | ‘ we want to encourage our young people wherever possible to be heterosexual ... |
| 9 | Our objective measures of light intensity would be discarded if they universally gave answers that contradicted our subjective experiences . |
| 10 | To shed further light on this issue , we report our short and medium term experience in patients with H pylori associated gastric ulcers treated with omeprazole and antibiotics . |
| 11 | This statement of the common purpose of conservation and sustainable economic development was adopted in the later UN report Our Common Future and is now the basic text for the UN Earth Summit to be held next June . |
| 12 | The problem is that there are 75 ridings a year and to give a wider berth would concentrate our low flying over other parts of the countryside to the detriment of the inhabitants there . |
| 13 | You see it may be that Dean 's right I must admit I think I , I agree with Dean I think he is right that the real problem is that natural selection may have fitted us by , as it were , rigging our emotional system . |
| 14 | It seems obvious that the time is now ripe for a completely new approach to our commercial position in the present and future world , by using our new natural resources , creating new jobs and new industries , and utilising our known talents , facilities and advantages to the best possible effect . |
| 15 | Quite a number of speakers stressed the importance of events like this to bring people together and to help us recognise our collective strengths . |
| 16 | Our job was to write the military communiques , the leaflets explaining our political programme and what we were fighting for when we moved into a new municipality , prepare tapes for the occasions we occupied the local radio stations in San Vicente and Zacatecoluca , monitor the international and national radio stations we could reach , and produce the mural newspapers for all the sub-zones of the region . |
| 17 | He appeared reasonable at first , speaking to us slowly and explaining our daily routine . |
| 18 | They want our tied estate and ‘ English heritage ’ beers to enable them to compete with the five major national tied estate brewers . |
| 19 | We 've had the debate over whether or not we want our annual conference and that argument was won . |
| 20 | ‘ You can trust us to wake up every day remembering the people we saw in the bus trips , the people we saw in the town meetings , the people we touched at the rallies , the people who had never voted before , the people who had n't voted in 20 years , the people who 'd never voted for a Democrat , the people who had given up hope , all of them together saying we want our future back . |
| 21 | ‘ You can trust us to wake up every day remembering the people we saw in the bus trips , the people we touched at the rallies , the people who had never voted before , the people who had n't voted in 20 years , the people who 'd never voted for a Democrat , the people who had given up hope , all of them saying we want our future back . ’ |
| 22 | Censorship is the banning of material on political grounds , selection is matching our proposed client with their projected information and leisure needs . |
| 23 | It became evident that there was no shortage of topics , and we decided that a conference was indeed called for in which we could pursue our shared interest in peaceful societies and attempt to challenge what we all regarded as a biased approach which presented human behaviour in terms of how aggressive drives are handled . |
| 24 | Not only do these pictures help to consolidate our general knowledge of glass-making processes , but they also reveal some new and important evidence on the ways in which specific types of glass wares were produced . |
| 25 | We have therefore established new venture teams to review the hydrocarbon provinces in the world which offer opportunities that fit our strategic needs . |
| 26 | So , we 're in a pretty strong position to make acquisitions if they appear at the right price and they fit our strategic framework . |
| 27 | We also send our good wishes to three of our Teachers who will be celebrating their marriages shortly — Anna Koller — who is going to New Zealand to live after her wedding — Jane Rogers and Ruth Bell . |
| 28 | I express my sympathy , along with that of my two parliamentary colleagues who are at funerals in Northern Ireland , for the families of those who have been killed and send our sincere wishes to those who have been seriously injured for a speedy and full recovery . |
| 29 | 18 LATE NEWS You will be sorry to hear that 's husband died suddenly at home after many years of ill-health and we send our heartfelt sympathy to and her family . |
| 30 | ‘ We send our little bastards to Cranborne — why should n't we take their money ? ’ |