Example sentences of "[adj] our [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Yes , ’ said St John , ‘ but unfortunately we can imagine how different our lives might have been . ’ |
| 2 | Well , imagine how different our life would be for us for a start . |
| 3 | Thursday 11 February 1993 Our Lady of Lourdes |
| 4 | Sweeney has no sooner stood up and shaved than he appears in a vision of reversion taking the form of the second parenthesis , the importance of whose material strains against the parenthetical format , guiding our reading of the poem : |
| 5 | Analysis of psychological processes is not a second rate substitute for studying the brain directly but a necessary adjunct to guiding our explorations of that organ . |
| 6 | Like Kant 's Ideas they have a regulative function , guiding our actions and our cognitive efforts in a certain direction . |
| 7 | From the investigation of distracting unattended words we can conclude that words are recognised before they are fixated , and that meanings might be useful in guiding our eyes efficiently across the text . |
| 8 | Funny our meeting in n it ? |
| 9 | This at a time when our much valued and valuable oil revenues are at their height : and on top of this our currency continually drops in value abroad . |
| 10 | Not only could the possibility of salvation be rejected , both James Stephen and Clarkson affirmed , but men and women had sufficiently free will , ‘ to render us justly responsible … for all the sins we commit in this our state of trial ’ . |
| 11 | We call this our peace of mind guarantee . |
| 12 | If the allowance had come from somebody who 'd put in a lot of thought to this our estimator here . |
| 13 | At the same meeting at which the Vial memorandum was read , on 6 September 1791 , a letter to the secretary from Messrs Kirkman and Hendy ( who were present ) was produced : ‘ Sir , In consequence of your Advertisement we beg leave to inform you , that we have contracted with Lord Camden for about 100 acres of building land , near [ Old ] St Pancras Church , abutting on the Turnpike Road leading to Kentish Town , which is intended to be called Camden Town conceiving the situation eligible for your truly valuable Institution we request you will lay this our proposal before the Society — We hold this Land under his Lordship for 99 years from Michaelmas last , the three first subject to no Ground Rent , our proposal is , that Lord Camden does and he will under our direction grant the Society a lease for 99 years from that time , the three first subject to no rent but for the remainder of the term an Annual Rent of thirty pounds per acre , should this proposal meet with approbation , the Society have only to direct their Surveyor to make out any quantity of land and in what position they conceive will best answer their purpose ’ . |
| 14 | Friends gave her much support in Bridewell , assuring the jailer that ‘ this our sister is no vagabond , its well known by many in the City , her civil manner of life from a child . ’ |
| 15 | But after this our sympathy is beginning to be restored as things start to go wrong for him and he practically redeems . |
| 16 | The soldiers and police guarding the gate heard , ‘ By the wires of Greenham , we sit down and weep , weep for this our land ’ . |
| 17 | Is this our book mum ? |
| 18 | Willy is this our book ? |
| 19 | ‘ We beg thee , Michael the Archangel , ’ he intoned the final prayer , ‘ to take the soul of this our brother . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Take the soul of this our brother Tosspot , ’ he continued defiantly , ‘ into the bosom of Abraham . ’ |
| 21 | Tickell in his papers on the pastoral recommended ‘ … this our Island as a proper Scene for Pastoral under certain Regulations … ’ |
| 22 | As soon as we see this our picture of doubt changes completely . |
| 23 | The letter from the plaintiffs solicitors in respect of question of interest one causes , the letter of the twenty ninth of January of nineteen ninety two , asking Mr to confirm , that in addition to the settlement figure of forty two thousand pounds in respect of costs he 'd be paying interest until the date of payment , and er , there was never a mind that erm which find a reply to in , in thirtieth of March nineteen ninety two by Mr , there 's no unqualified agreement in figure of forty two thousand pounds , I do not wish to appear obstructive but your clients must recognise that there are effectively two issues to be resolved , namely the payment of their costs and the division of the parts of other property , surely in all parties interest that none of these are resolved , so it is surely in all party interest that those , those are resolved contemporary and then the letter goes on to dealing with questions of valuation , the bottom paragraph on page thirty two in the bundle says in answer to your letter therefore is that there is no agreement to pay interest , if there is then my client must be credited with interest on his costs , and then it says surgery and finally if ove if overall agreement can not be reached then my client reserves his rights on the issue of costs and I feel that this could lead to an acrimonious and protracted taxation , at the end of the day I suspect it would only be enforced the order for costs about taking a charge in my clients interest in the surgery premises , does that improve your clients position at all , as I say that was the position of the thirtieth of March nineteen ninety two and during the remainder of nineteen ninety two there were then further negotiations , some of them appeared to have been carried out er personally between er doctor and er doctor which seems to of been the partner , dealing with the plaintiffs position and er he says about his non negotiable offer at page forty one in the bundle apparently attached to a letter of the twenty first of December nineteen ninety two and er that had a time limit on , the twenty second of March , there was a reminder on the twenty second of February and erm the plaintiffs solicitors wrote on the fourteenth of April nineteen ninety three raising the question of costs erm say that erm we have now received your clients instructions , that they would be prepared to accept the sum of forty two thousand in respect of their standard basis costs which is inclusive of V A T and disbursements , you remember that our initial schedule of costs which I set part of my letter of the eighth of October total fifty thousand , nine hundred and ninety eight pounds , twenty six pence , in addition to this our client would require interest from the which is as of todays date at seven hundred and sixty days at seventeen pounds , twenty six a day totalling thirteen thousand , one hundred and seventeen pounds , sixty , in the circumstances I look forward to receiving your clients cheque for the sum of fifty five thousand , one hundred and seventeen pounds and sixty pence within the next seven days and then it says I believe you were certainly agreeing have been very patient concerning your clients costs , but now we wish these to be paid and that was responded to er Mr on the twenty second of April er but why he quite has not been directly involved in the conversation for some time and there was not reasonable expected response for seven days from him , er and then he goes on to say that although he appreciates his firm is still on the record , I shall seek instructions from my client , but it maybe he would wish to give notice of acting in person and indeed that is in fact what happened , what happened in this case . |
| 24 | ‘ Throughout this our clients have remained loyal . |
| 25 | was this our punishment for attempting to paddle on a Sunday ? |
| 26 | Henry VII , asking for such a loan in 1496 , told his people that ‘ this is a thing of so great weight and importance as may not be failed , and therefore fail ye not thereof for your said part … as ye intend the good and honour of us and of this our realm ; and as ye tender also the weal and surety of yourself ’ . |
| 27 | ‘ We give you charge of all the matters which may relate to this our command . |
| 28 | In this our world God breathed his spirit into the dust of the earth , and matter became articulate and personalised in the forms of man and woman . |
| 29 | It does not matter how high our labour costs are in Europe so long as we all get high labour costs . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Perhaps we were afraid our parents would be shocked , ’ said Sarah . |