Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] our [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The effect of such imagery is to enrich or enlarge our concept of the male , or of what may truly be said to be ‘ masculine ’ . |
| 2 | Neuroscience , which depends upon a materialist CTP for the explanatory force of its explanations of the mind , can not , therefore , sustain any claim to be explaining or advancing our understanding of the basis of perception , or of the mind . |
| 3 | Is there any internal evidence which increases or decreases our confidence in the writer ? |
| 4 | 1.21 In chapter 7 we rework and develop our rationale on the place of literature in the English curriculum 5 to 16 . |
| 5 | We parked in the small village of Marloes and planned our route on the map . |
| 6 | ‘ I promise you we 'd be much better to go quietly back on to the road and make our way to the Fire Court . ’ |
| 7 | We step past Calvin who doodles with a twig in the dust , and make our way towards the car . |
| 8 | Later in the day the shelling ceased so Taff and I were able to get his kit together and make our way through the village to the farm and No. 6 Commando positions . |
| 9 | Fashion editors , after all , are forever exhorting us to express ourselves in every peplum , to use checks to tell the world where we are at , and to affirm our commitment to the modern lifestyle with Lycra . |
| 10 | Instead of being taken for granted as a set of explanatory standards which will bolster and enhance our understanding of the social world , individualism may appear to offer only a narrow and distorting lens through which to inspect it . |
| 11 | A horse that is threatening trouble in the paddock we can reprimand with a sharp ‘ Do n't ! ’ ; but we can also raise our arm and stab our finger in the air towards it — like a horse with a raised leg threatening to kick . |
| 12 | They are experiencing what women have always known — that the life-sustaining relationships that enable us to grit our teeth and pick our way through the mess made by men , to endure and to survive , are those we share with other women : our mothers , our sisters , our neighbours and friends . |
| 13 | We appeal to all good men and true to rally to us and vent our outrage against the object of our fully justified indignation . |
| 14 | To the sceptical , it helped to justify and explain our involvement in the inquiry . |
| 15 | ‘ Glad you enjoyed it , Taff , ’ I answered as we both climbed out of the trench , picked up the Bren and the ammunition and made our way along the road in the direction of the orchard . |
| 16 | We raised anchor , turned , dipping our sails three times in honour of the Trinity , and made our way to the open sea . |
| 17 | When we arrived half an hour later , all the canoes were unloaded from the trailer and we were all kitted-out with a helmet and life-jacket and given our canoe for the day . |
| 18 | Given our commitments to the programmes that we 've set forward and given our commitment to the council tax payer , remember that person again not mentioned today |
| 19 | The modern world is one which confuses and plunders our sense of the past ; one where even the concept of ‘ heritage ’ itself is hi-jacked and distorted . |
| 20 | They would hail us , waving their arms to the beat , as we thumped and bumped our way along the highway . |
| 21 | Wh what I 'd like to suggest , without going through it all again , is that perhaps we could agree to ask the Town Clerk to write to Planning Department and voice our concern at the way this matter is being handled . |
| 22 | ‘ We should turn out in droves , all of us , and place our cross against the name of the person in whichever party will care more for the people , ’ said Mr Harper . |
| 23 | Let us consider here just the relationship between the focusing and reasoning components in a system of this general type , and restrict our attention for the moment to the case of one pronoun in a sentence in the absence of any non-anaphoric ambiguity . |
| 24 | Most of these are n't signed , but if we look at them early and register our interest in the act , we hope the band will consider us to be their agent when they have a record deal . |
| 25 | The immediate economic imperatives have trapped the potential of partnerships which might otherwise attend to the more complex long-term issues and could therefore condition and shape our society in the future . |
| 26 | As our seventy fifth birthday approaches , Cadbury hopes to stage more events and promotions to help us meet our seventy five million t pound target and meet our commitment to the world 's children . |
| 27 | He added : ‘ Labour may have thrown in the towel , but the SNP will continue to lead the fight to defeat the poll tax and to rid our nation of the nuclear menace . ’ |
| 28 | The first is to contribute to the theoretical analysis of work and employment and to discussions of labour markets , and to advance our understanding of the ways in which gender operates at work . |
| 29 | That may go down well with some Euro-sceptics among Conservative Members , but it infuriates our partners and reduces our influence in the Community , as I know only too well . |
| 30 | Since the development of our in-can system , other brewers have acknowledged our innovation and success and followed our lead in the market . |