Example sentences of "[vb infin] our [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Better , we 'll do the circuit , we 'll fuck our way round the whole of it , we 'll circumnavigate . ’ |
| 2 | But the midfielder said : ‘ If we can win our home games , Wales can still qualify for the finals . ’ |
| 3 | But I am sure we will win our survival fight . |
| 4 | ‘ Now — if we are going to roast the lairds , and get some rights at last , do you think we can win our lease back from old Menzies — do you think so , Angus ? ’ |
| 5 | But it is specifically allowed that that world might lack our laws , including a law which pertains to the rain and the wet balcony . |
| 6 | On the manpower side , we will also direct our efforts to ensuring there is a highly skilled workforce available to meet the needs of existing Glasgow companies and those choosing to locate in the city . |
| 7 | Spring , when the swelling buds indicate movement and rising sap , is quite soon enough to direct their energies by pruning — and that is the area to which we will now direct our energies ! |
| 8 | We also felt the officials were sympathetic to our concerns and were keen to help us direct our pressure more effectively towards influencing planning authorities , public opinion and the Secretary of State . |
| 9 | By contrast , the definition of a good frame is almost exactly the opposite ; it should be immediately absorbed without any period of consideration and , rather than being the focus of attention in itself , should direct our attention to the object within it . |
| 10 | We can consciously direct our attention to certain things and think about them . |
| 11 | The state of a country 's trading balance on a geographical basis may direct our attention to the condition of the trade balance with the rest of the world . |
| 12 | It is to that ‘ twilight zone ’ that we should direct our attentions , waiting and watching on as the edges waiver , become indistinct , and blend . |
| 13 | But in the first place I believe we should direct our attentions to unschooled lay usages of the word . |
| 14 | Let us make sure that we do not direct our anger and frustration onto people who are only trying to help us . |
| 15 | ‘ As a clergyman he might well consider our situation to be improper . |
| 16 | We should concentrate our help on banking and financial services . |
| 17 | So long as a majority of Northern Ireland voters prefer to remain with the United Kingdom , we must concentrate our energies on protection for those on whom the terrorists wage war . |
| 18 | We will again concentrate our discussion on one particular model ; and we have selected the one which is probably the most fully worked-out . |
| 19 | So we can only concentrate our efforts and what we have been concentrating our efforts on is not turning any place into a nuclear dump , then we have been concentrating on our union 's policy which is the retention of all the facilities and job security for our members . |
| 20 | There is still evidence that the young and newly diagnosed patients remain at increased risk of death and it is among these that we must concentrate our efforts . |
| 21 | A further advantage of the new Axminster sales agreement in Europe is that we can now concentrate our export sales resources on other specific markets such as America , the Middle East and the Far East , where we need to increase our ‘ call rate ’ to realise market potential . |
| 22 | We shall concentrate our attention on the sterling contract . |
| 23 | Now if we took this view about parental investment theory , it would immediately erm concentrate our attention if we 're talking about human beings as we are in this course on er one critical factor which er is astonishingly important and that is er body fat . |
| 24 | We shall now concentrate our attention on his criticism of proposition ( b ) , the hypothesis that there exists a stable trade off relation between inflation and unemployment . |
| 25 | And then we used to do erm exercises with er from different areas , they 'd come and attack our area or we 'd come and try and in il infiltrate in their area and er we had , we had a night exercise and we was erm went out Saturday afternoon , we was out all Saturday night and Sunday and on the Sunday mid day we was still er out and we was in the farmyard at the farm at end of Brierley 's Lane by Bell Lane , off Bell Lane , Brierley 's Lane right at other end , we was in their farmyard and their outer buildings and we was str put out on guard duty from the Stafford Road to Broad Lane , and we was protecting that area , they were supposed to be coming from the Cannock area towards us and er we was in the , in the farmyard and course the m muck and stuff and all that out of the farmyard was there and the ducks was wallowing in it . |
| 26 | ‘ Many did , however , recognise our skills and expertise — our intellectual ‘ horsepower ’ — and many wanted to know more , ’ he added . |
| 27 | ‘ The family , our school of life , is the Church in miniature , ’ she stated , and went on to tell us that we must recognise our unity in diversity and cherish our differences . |
| 28 | This debate should recognise our concern to put this right with more women at all levels . ’ |
| 29 | It seems we can now qualify our position on the relationship between dramatic playing and performance modes by saying that although the ultimate intention of the performer is to ‘ describe ’ an emotional event , the quality essential to dramatic playing , the quality of ‘ being ’ may also enter the performance mode , given the Stanislavsky approach . |
| 30 | We may not like or respect our superiors , for example , but they will have power over us just because they occupy a position above us in the organisational hierarchy . |