Example sentences of "[verb] our [adj] [noun] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | We want our own money for the housework we do . |
| 3 | It is especially so when we try to impose our twentieth-century interpretation upon a word which once conveyed a subtly , or dramatically , different meaning in the past . |
| 4 | Since handling of tools and weapons requires precise manipulation of the fingers and thumb , a dextral bias in hand preference for wielding these implements might have predisposed our earliest ancestors towards the use of the right hand for gestural communication . |
| 5 | By the way , the ‘ box ’ had a had a hole in it ; disconnecting it from the air intake manifold and replacing it with a blank plug seems to have solved our original problem with no immediately apparent side-effects . |
| 6 | Above all , Liberal Democrats will trust our fellow citizens with the truth . |
| 7 | Pressing our itching ears to the caressing fingers . |
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| 9 | We base our gravest decisions on a complex system of conceptions , most of which presuppose the confidence that we will not be betrayed . |
| 10 | And in turn we can shed the soul to find our true self with the mind . |
| 11 | We fixed our first session for the following week , and with a little planning there could be a further session before I went back to Bristol for my first day return since being a resident . |
| 12 | ‘ I expect our toughest game of the season against them . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ On 16 April we left Greenock on the old aircraft carrier ‘ Argus ’ with twenty-four Hurricanes , twenty-five pilots and an appropriate number of fitters and riggers for Gibraltar ( although we did not know our precise destination at the time , of course . |
| 14 | In 1990 we found our first chiff-chaff on the count of March 11 and in 1989 , two early sand-martins and a solitary wheatear on March 12 . |
| 15 | During that Division One term , Alan was Palace 's joint third-top scorer , with six priceless goals , while it was he who notched Palace 's extra-time winner against Liverpool in the FA Cup semi-final , to secure our first-ever appearance in an FA Cup Final and earn everlasting fame among Palace supporters . |
| 16 | The Forces were then given four strategic roles : maintaining the British strategic nuclear deterrent ; defending the United Kingdom Base ; contributing to the landward defence of Western Europe ; and helping to secure our seaward defences in the eastern Atlantic . |
| 17 | Once again , you will see that we have located our imaginary hotel in a genuine town . |
| 18 | Er , we swopped our sharing expense on the er , Sp Spanish financial daily er , with cash for a twenty five percent stake in the Group and er , one of the things this er , does is to give us a stake in , in Marca , which is the second biggest newspaper in Spain and incidentally has the same social and economic profile as El , The Times of Spain er , and it 's a sport paper which sells seven days a week , two hundred and thirty four thousand circulation and its nearer , nearest competitor sells one fifty thousand . |
| 19 | The chronicles , which provide our only evidence on the first phases of the settlements , speak about grants of land to live in , of seats of habitation , and about the division of territory . |
| 20 | After careful consideration , we decided to halve our quarterly dividend to a level we believe we can sustain , even if trading conditions remain as they are , given the achievement of our current profit improvement targets . |
| 21 | No fewer than twenty lucky readers have won our third prize of a Recta D0310 compass and a 905 Liquipak . |
| 22 | No one fully understands the workings of these interlocking systems and we may forgive ourselves for having a sensation of something slipping through our fingers when we try to grasp them — but one thing is certain : the choices we make about the order of the information in discourse reveal our own assumptions about the world and about the people we are trying to communicate with . |
| 23 | By all means let us seek to prevent congenital abnormalities , but let us not betray our Hippocratic tradition in the process . |
| 24 | We joined them , my mother , my grandmother and I , pushing our few belongings in a hand-cart . |
| 25 | Boffin has created very strong ties with a number of major and independent oil companies which we feel sure will benefit our long-term success in the new venture ’ . |
| 26 | We therefore recommend the development by SEAC of a national format and guidelines for internal assessment of these aspects of writing , to parallel our similar recommendation in the case of reading . |
| 27 | Altogether in his Palace career , Jimmy Hamilton made 16 FA Cup appearances at centre-half and , later , at right-half and he scored our last goal in the 7–0 rout of Luton in the 3rd Round Replay in January 1929 to equal Palace 's best ever FA Cup score . |
| 28 | Our network of branch chairmen , branch secretaries and their committees deserve our heartfelt thanks for the hard work that they do . |
| 29 | They mimic our greatest achievements in a way that puts our own selves to shame . |
| 30 | With the acquisition of in 1987 inherited a fleet of 12 bulk malt delivery vehicles — we had transferred our own fleet to a contract hire operator two years earlier . |