Example sentences of "[vb pp] our [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Whilst we did lose volume slightly at the start of the year , we have outperformed our competitors during the vital summer peak period , ’ a Sealink spokesman said . |
| 2 | President Gorbachev 's record as fairy godmother to the cause of democratic revolution , first in Beijing and now in East Berlin , may have caught our fancy in the West , but to some in Moscow he must seem more of a wicked stepmother , turning the achievements of Socialism to dust wherever he goes . |
| 3 | But when we bring it out and examine it more closely it usually proves to be only trash whose glitter had caught our attention . |
| 4 | On Thursday night we had a light supper after we 'd registered and unpacked our things . |
| 5 | The Drosophila studies have not solved the memory problem , but they have certainly supplemented our understanding of its biochemical mechanisms . |
| 6 | It required , in familiar language , ‘ all mankind are to be esteemed our brethren ’ . |
| 7 | Yet , as Sharp expressed it , Christ taught ‘ that all mankind , even our professed enemies … must necessarily be esteemed our neighbours … so that the same benevolence … is indisputably due , under the Gospel , to our brethren of the universe ’ . |
| 8 | I had never realised quite how the Iron Curtain distorted our perception of geography , making Prague , which lies west of Vienna , seem so eastern European . |
| 9 | We have so distorted our conception of higher education that it is difficult to realize the point . |
| 10 | We opened a new store in Christ Christchurch and rebuilt our North Shields site replacing the M F I store with a completely new one . |
| 11 | Maybe we should have solved our problems more quickly ( of course in a perfect world everyone always should ) , but better by far to have gone on and on , testing , probing , questioning and changing , until we finally had a solution which worked and could take us where we wanted to be . |
| 12 | Agree to work for me and we 'll both have solved our problems . ’ |
| 13 | Well of course I 've been saying for some time now , for some time , and I want to underline that , and I hope the government are listening that we 've had twenty thousand troops on our streets , we 've twelve thousand armed policemen on our streets , we have the strictest security laws in Western Europe , and none of these things have solved our problem . |
| 14 | There 's this old girl at er the top of the road you know , got them , she planted them half way down her garden , right , when they 'd grown to about six foot high she said we could have the rest of their garden , so we did , that 's how come our garden 's so big cos people give our , give us the garden |
| 15 | It 's he 's took our life over in a certain respect |
| 16 | I have not forgotten our conversation about the need to get serious global environmental problems across to ‘ ordinary people in Wales ’ at a very personal level . |
| 17 | ‘ Have you forgotten our suction-boots ? ’ |
| 18 | She had forgotten our language . |
| 19 | But as soon as we are tired of them and we have discharged our duties to society each day , we can say to ourselves : ‘ All those things are of the mundane , but I am of the transcendent , and therefore far above them . ’ |
| 20 | And we 've designed our defence system to prevent just that possibility . ’ |
| 21 | As we are committed to the idea of providing general managers with a progression of learning opportunities , we have designed our programmes to match these needs . |
| 22 | JC : Kenneth Green had designed our production of Cosi fan tutte which had been a great success . |
| 23 | So far we have considered our capital outlay on land purchase , land improvements , livestock , machinery , equipment , and buildings , and decided how this will be spread over the ‘ build-up ’ years . |
| 24 | We 've picked our resorts and hotels carefully and you 'll find a Club Couples Hotel in the following places : |
| 25 | So if I was to say we 've we 've picked our area , what potential instructions do we have do you think , let's say we 've got a good , quite now , what potential instruction do we have with that particular area , that arena rather ? |
| 26 | I have played in Jamaica where a guard with a machine gun has boarded our team bus — my main concern then was that he would n't be able to shoot straight . ’ |
| 27 | But , to take it in it 's totality , like Paul we can say , we 've committed our life to him . |
| 28 | ‘ Two other factors will make us a better team this season — Keith Finlay has come back to the club from North Fermanagh and that has stiffened our batting while Tony Johnson from Barbados is a superb all rounder . ’ |
| 29 | here we are articifial snow it even makes snowballs … hope you 've enjoyed our ski-ing this afternoon next week we 're out on the River Thames for the Boat race |
| 30 | It had been traditional weather , with snow and frosty mornings to highlight the glittering hilly landscape of North Derbyshire , where we had enjoyed our Christmas holiday . |