Example sentences of "[verb] our [noun pl] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | Even with such a drastic cut , we estimated our losses for the first year as being in the region of £148,000 . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | ‘ Every customer who has bought our products over the last year can feel good about helping towards the success of this campaign ’ said Jonathan Harper Hill , brand manager for the Montagne Jeunesse range . |
5 | We have wonderful eighteenth-century objects , but would like to strengthen our holdings in the nineteenth century . |
6 | All I want is the truth , the real reason why you decided to come here , why you suggested that we try to ease our differences in the first place . ’ |
7 | ‘ Shall we take our puddings into the next room and watch television ? ’ suggested Jannie . |
8 | We switched our rings from the fourth finger of the left hand to the fourth finger of the right . |
9 | Paragraph three , the action plan , er well it will guide itself evidence this , the statements made under the action plan , from section three of the report will guide our activities over the next three years and of course paragraph four performance the critical success factors , by the seven criteria we will be judged in the highway service and each one is a challenge in its own right and I do hope to receive in order to carry out these er , these er promises in fact , that erm , I 'd be given the relevant level of financial staff and resources |
10 | ‘ By lowering our costs over the last two years we feel we can now pass some of those savings on to customers . ’ |
11 | 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 . |
12 | Frantz Fanon , who was there , related : ‘ Dr Nkrumah made a point of receiving our delegates among the first . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | Skipper David Graveney said : ‘ We 'll be finalising our plans in the next couple of weeks . ’ |
16 | We were getting paid our pensions on the first week of Nove November . |