Example sentences of "[verb] our [noun pl] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | We only keep our records for a certain time , in some cases no longer than 12 months . |
| 5 | There was a silence in the room as we all simultaneously racked our brains for a missing disease . |
| 6 | This is essential to prepare our children for an ever-changing world and to retrain employees whose traditional role within a company will change with the advent of computers in general and micros in particular . |