Example sentences of "[verb] our [noun pl] [prep] [art] [adj] " 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 | We send our mandates for the certain death of thousands and ten thousands ! |
| 3 | We 've been prowling around all day on a level with earthworms and rusty , broken down appliances , pressing our ears against the hot wooden trapdoor to the cellar and hearing the silence of ghosts . |
| 4 | The problem with any such guesstimate is that , of course , we are basing our calculations on a statistical sample of one . |
| 5 | She was obviously under the influence of drugs , booze or both and as we approached , typically averting our eyes from the embarrassing spectacle , a girl of about 11 wiped a candle of yellow mucus from the woman 's nose and resignedly helped her to her feet , staring at us with old , resentful eyes as we passed , reminding me of myself and the Saturday afternoon rescue missions . |
| 6 | This was followed by a conducted tour of the Autocatalyst plant where at strategic points JM staff provided our visitors with a basic understanding of autocatalyst production . |
| 7 | And one blessing is that we are n't likely to be saddled with the tag ‘ Team of the Nineties ’ — which is a real kiss of death — while we 're trying to find our feet in the Premier League . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Our overriding priority is to provide our shareholders with a satisfactory financial return on their investment . |
| 10 | Our overriding priority is to provide our shareholders with a satisfactory financial return on their investment . |
| 11 | Our aim is to provide our members with a special holiday experience — including lectures and tours by expert guides and access to restricted places . |
| 12 | However , to provide our customers with the optimum service possible our Operations Department plan departure schedules approximately 8 weeks before the date of travel . |
| 13 | We reported our finds to the local office where we were able to borrow the official car to transport the goodies to Valiant . |
| 14 | The Spanish , the French and lastly the Germans have also eyed our lands with a warlike gaze . |
| 15 | The history books will list the world records , Olympic title and the record number of sub four-minute miles , but that alone does n't do justice to the man who consistently put his reputation on the line , changed our notions on the possible longevity of a miler 's career and who , I believe , was the inspiration that heralded the greatest decade in the history of British middle distance running . |
| 16 | This question of an editorially constructed author is one which challenges our preconceptions of a fixed writer in charge of a manuscript the integrity of which was zealously guarded . |
| 17 | I believe that project quality plans are essential within our group to ensure we provide our clients with a cost-effective quality service . |
| 18 | The social evening held at Royston was very enjoyable , a fine opportunity to meet our colleagues in a relaxed atmosphere . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Let us pray that we may find the contentment which comes from living our lives to the full and being concerned and thoughtful in our dealings with others . |
| 21 | We felt that this new improved offer would enable us to continue in the short term notwithstanding the fact that we still estimated our losses under the new proposals at something in the region of £67,000 . |
| 22 | Even with such a drastic cut , we estimated our losses for the first year as being in the region of £148,000 . |
| 23 | Introducing subscripts 1 and 2 for denoting our quantities in the two dielectrics , we may write |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | We 've got to clean our streets to a higher standard more quickly . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | We export our designs to the other world |
| 28 | A balance is therefore established between what we are losing and what we are gaining , and this balance enables us to view our losses with a reasonable degree of calmness . |
| 29 | Time and again we have scooped our rivals with the top stories and pictures . |
| 30 | ‘ It is our task , as Liberal Democrats , to set our sails to the new winds which will blow through the nineties ; to establish the new frontier between individual choice and collective responsibility . ’ |