Example sentences of "[verb] our [noun] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We send our mandates for the certain death of thousands and ten thousands ! |
| 2 | Right , very good , that 's all from Headquarters , right then we move on to then any other business , erm I think mainly it 's just the odd verse with arrangements for next meeting , because our next meeting is our own A G M , erm , at , which we erm elect our officers for the next year , er , and there are , are other arrangements to make , erm we sometimes put a little form do n't we on the end of the minutes that , people to fill in if they wish to nominate someone , I think we should do that even though very , very rarely gets actually filled in , erm , and we have some post which we have elections for others where we can phone the people who are doing those jobs and , and hope they 'll carry on . |
| 3 | Would n't It be better , Nathaniel , to let us all relax and enjoy our expedition for a few weeks ? |
| 4 | Next April 's meeting need do no more than put a tick alongside South Africa 's name and we can all start booking our tickets for the 1995 thrash . |
| 5 | Even with such a drastic cut , we estimated our losses for the first year as being in the region of £148,000 . |
| 6 | We all met at a pre-luncheon reception and then adjourned to the dining hall to sample the culinary delights which were to space our classes for the next five days ; four classes with dancing after dinner was the order of the day , all meticulously time-tabled . |
| 7 | Remember , you can at any time exchange our equipment for the latest models as soon as they become available . |
| 8 | During our last seven months , as we prepared our recommendations for the secondary stages , the officials of the National Curriculum Council under their Chairman , Duncan Graham , were rewriting the attainment targets for the primary stages , supposedly in accord with the consultation exercise and Mr Baker 's own proposals about grammar . |
| 9 | Some of us remember all too well what happened in the 1920s and 1930s when we allowed our hopes for a peaceful world to outrun our judgements on the need for defence . |
| 10 | Two ideas over-large for reconciliation are fronting each other now , and there 'll be no peace until there 's been — no , ’ he checked himself , ‘ I wo n't say a settlement , but at least a temporary losing and winning that shall silence us both until we get our breath for the next bout . |
| 11 | We do n't want to have every last stop pulled out on our behalves in a last , heroic effort to extend our lives for a few more days or weeks or months . |
| 12 | ‘ It is vital that we maintain our concentration for the entire match . |
| 13 | It was like being in the adit of a mine , and I was driving into the bowels of the earth with a man who seemed hell bent on risking our lives for no apparent reason . |
| 14 | ‘ We have to submit our plans for a national scheme to the EC Commission by July 1994 and it must be operational by January 1995 . |
| 15 | Until we begin to recognise our responsibility for the current situation , we will not come close to finding a solution that will lead African families to choose to have smaller families . |
| 16 | Not only does it ignore the sense in which suffering can be unwitting but it also begs the question in favour of saying , when specific symptoms like struggling or urination occur in animals , that these are properly to be seen as , emotional responses ' ( which covertly elicits our sympathy for the conscious distress of the stricken human parent rather than the symptoms of it observed in the struggling , yet unaware , athlete ) . |
| 17 | In Britain 's heyday we provided financial subsidies as well ; but though we have retained our fighting abilities , as was demonstrated by the Falklands Campaign , the decline in our resources relative to the superpowers now limits our influence and inhibits our quest for the greatest possible measure of national independence . |
| 18 | We only keep our records for a certain time , in some cases no longer than 12 months . |
| 19 | And then we went to a few Western shops to get our costumes for the Urban Cowboy premier . |
| 20 | We discussed our plans for the living museum and theme park and told her about the oak tree . |
| 21 | After two pitches I suffered one of those inexplicable aberrations and instead of following the blatantly curving crack into which we had been cramming our limbs for the last 60ft I launched up an unerringly straight vertical groove above the belay . |
| 22 | In the circumstances they could hardly refuse our request for a special audit — indeed , they appeared to welcome it , saying that although they were going through a difficult time they had nothing to hide , and were confident that the bank would wish to continue its support . " |
| 23 | For it is a condition of Dostoevsky 's art to arouse our longing for the settled and the normal and the beautiful itself . |
| 24 | We crowded round the table , straining our ears for the magic sounds , while Robert adjusted the cat 's whisker . |
| 25 | The next day we spent the forenoon ashore at Smeerenburg looking at the remains of the old Dutch whaling-station , and setting our feet for the first time on the Spitsbergen tundra . |
| 26 | ‘ In the interest of reconstruction and peace and the need to minimise the potential threat to democratic advance … we declare our support for an interim government of national unity , ’ it said . |
| 27 | We discuss and enjoy celebrating the seasonal festivals such at Christmas , Easter and Harvest , when we join with the rest of the Junior School in bringing our gifts for the sick , and those in need in the neighbourhood of the School . |
| 28 | Colin Magee , of Douglas , receives our accolade for a hole-in-one at the demanding 188-yard second ( stroke index 6 ) at Rowany Golf Club , Port Errin , Isle of Man . |
| 29 | As my vouchers are used up in about four months each year this means that for eight months I 'm out of pocket using our stores for the weekly shop . |
| 30 | After that I do n't remember very much , except that in our ecstasy the fatal word ‘ love ’ passed our lips for the first time . |