Example sentences of "[conj] our [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are things we tell our eyes or our muscles and limbs to do : much practised , they probably come more readily , but the body needs constant reminding . |
| 2 | We should not forget our animal origins or our brain 's capacity to malfunction or the hidden potential of the unconscious mind . |
| 3 | In his opinion , the cross of Christ did not change God , or our relationship with God at all , but it changes us . |
| 4 | Such is not our intention or our mission , he modestly concedes . |
| 5 | Some of the more militant resisters complained that they were being ‘ diddled ’ by the ‘ ingenious , tolerance of a state which deprived them of the opportunity , welcomed by Clifford Allen twenty-five years earlier , ‘ for the young men or our generation … [ to bear ] witness to the faith that [ was ] in them . ’ |
| 6 | The nature or our existence hides from us the knowledge of first beginnings which are born of the Nothing ; and the littleness of our being conceals from us the sight of the Infinite . |
| 7 | ‘ It was either Keane or our Nigel . |
| 8 | ‘ Are we to sell our cattle or our land ? ’ |
| 9 | George thought grimly , ‘ That 's twenty pounds more than I get , or our Jonna . ’ |
| 10 | Several times , in bars , glancing up from our Bud or our Molson or our Miller , we have seen that same shot on the mounted TV : like a eugenic cross between swordfish and stingray , the helicopter twirls upward from the ocean and crouches grimly on the deck of the aircraft-carrier , ready to fight . |
| 11 | What we are saying by our commitment or our attitude . |
| 12 | The God-shaped vacuum within us makes itself felt most when we ask ourselves — or our psychiatrist — ‘ Who am I ? ’ |
| 13 | For the majority of us , the ‘ Swinging Sixties ’ is a decade only experienced through our history textbooks , or our parents ' all too frequent reminiscences . |
| 14 | But what Mr Branson had either forgotten about , or Our Price was not interested in , was the small chain of concessions within Debenhams . |
| 15 | We hereby give notice or our resignation as auditors of your company with effect from … |
| 16 | Nowhere in our In Touch leaflet do we claim the Thornaby identity issue as our issue or our bandwagon as this matter angers and involves people of all shades of opinion in Thornaby . |
| 17 | They failed to recognise once again that the subjects of the discussion are in no way ‘ ordinary people ’ , either by their own or our admittance . |
| 18 | Now , we talked about attention as being a process whereby we could explain how it is that , with all the information that we receive , or our senses receive , that we only process part of it , and we saw that within the information processing model . |
| 19 | We experience guilt when we blame ourselves or our actions for events . |
| 20 | And it did not pass complaints to us , or our chairman Sir Bob Reid . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ A bloody good thing or our childhood would have been a misery instead of just a bore . ’ |
| 22 | If it 's decided , any of us or all of us o or our reports , are gon na use Micromail can you let me know ? |
| 23 | The conference theme ‘ A Better Mousetrap ’ , ties in with the centenary of crime novelist Agatha Christie , who turned up at The Old Swan after her own mysterious disappearance , and the titles of some of the papers will reflect the investigation , detection and arrest of some villains that threaten our property , our health or our lives . |
| 24 | We do n't believe that 's our job or our function . |
| 25 | Our species differs from the common chimpanzee and the bonobo , or pygmy chimpanzee , in fewer than 2 per cent or our genes . |
| 26 | He says nowadays shopkeepers are really asking please city government can you get our street or our part of the city centre car-free because it creates … such a better way of doing shops and walking and you can really enjoy the city centre much more . |
| 27 | Or our work . |
| 28 | But even if this tape is going to record the last speech of somebody famous and it did n't get and therefore they could n't record it , that is co , the consequence of a delay , you know , a fall of snow or our vehicle breaking down or something not being done , or missed some in human , some human error , it 's not our , we do n't lay , we 'll give , we 'll insure or offer transit liability on the value of the goods providing you 've got additional full transit liability with us , but we wo n't for the loss of business because you did n't get it . |
| 29 | On recording , publishing and mangement contracts , the MBA or our specialist solicitor provide union members with free advice and a contract-vetting service . |
| 30 | And erm you know as lorry drivers , we we class ourselves as the professionals of the road , but at the end of the day our standards or our reputation is tarnished by the actions of a few is n't it ? |