Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] our [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was felt that however frustrating or exasperating our relationships with the churches may be at times , our ‘ bias to the churches ’ must continue but not at the cost of excluding other ‘ efficient ’ partners who are non-church . |
| 2 | Then we stagger to our feet and pick our clothes off the floor , and sit and drool into our glass , puffing on a pensive perfecto , and staring at the tabloid and all its gruesome crap . |
| 3 | We will continue to offer generous funding for Housing for Wales and concentrate our efforts on the special needs of rural Wales . |
| 4 | ‘ We will carry out some work on this and send our findings to the scientists in Edinburgh . ’ |
| 5 | Then we boiled it dutifully and heated our tins on the Calor gas stove in the kitchen . |
| 6 | It will provide an opportunity for us to explain and present our plans for the development of the community health service as an NHS Trust . ’ |
| 7 | Fortunately w the canal was close to , we all er rushed to the canal and wash our hands in the canal and wash our face cos the vapour had gone on to us . |
| 8 | We took our seats and joined in , whistling and shouting and tapping our canes against the floor … . |
| 9 | We explored the intricate channels of the Sound of Harris ( in the days before it was buoyed ) , and poked our bows under the awful cliffs of Mingulay near Barra Head , where a thousand seabirds clamour and the sun is shut out at noon . |
| 10 | If we take sentences without contexts and devise interpretations for them on the basis of the mutual compatibility or otherwise of the type-meaning of the words in them , we are putting ourselves under constraints which have nothing to do with syntax ; by thus restricting and deforming our appreciations of the structure we prevent ourselves seeing what the effect of the syntax , qua syntax , is . |
| 11 | We are , in the practicalities , preserving many of the characteristics of the poll tax that have plagued and complicated our lives over the past two or three years . |
| 12 | The denial mechanisms will distort relationships and dealings with the client , and warp our perceptions of the whole situation . |
| 13 | Right , if you 're ready , darling , we may as well be on our way and pay our respects to the lady who made the complaint and set her mind at rest . |
| 14 | Later , when the boys had gone below deck to sleep we sat in the bow and trailed our hands in the warm water . |
| 15 | Sadly Mr 's proposal fell on a technicality , but I think he put his finger on something which I felt the assembly was , was responding to , that we are not finished with this issue and although it fell on a technicality about money , perhaps without making any addendums and motions we might er refuse this addendum and keep our minds on the baptism issue and hope that the Board of Practice and Procedure and the panel on doctrine will pick up the substance and the , the essence of what Mr was asking for and pursue this matter until as a church we can get it sorted out to the satisfaction of all the groups within the church . |
| 16 | They came down and took our suitcases into the house . |
| 17 | ( d ) The massive body of historical research that has gone on throughout this century has gradually discovered new sources of information and refined our views of the early modern period , in all probability bringing them closer to the objective truth . |
| 18 | We escape from this vicious circle by using the ‘ boot-strapping ’ procedure of making simplifying assumptions about the functional organization of the brain and interpreting our experiments in the light of them . |
| 19 | If we can reduce our weight to around that of our youth and eat well enough to give us the energy to work and live our lives to the full , we will all benefit . |
| 20 | Both features resembled their names to a baffling degree but , despite this , Abu was moved to expound upon them with such fervent body language that we nearly plunged into the ravine and terminated our lives at the very lip of the sacred symbol of where we had begun it . |
| 21 | She joins me on the carpet , and we all sit blowing on our coffees and warming our hands on the mugs . |
| 22 | ‘ My husband collapsed on the lawn outside , but got up again to try and save our dogs from the side of the house . ’ |
| 23 | When the bell went sounding the end of the day we packed up and put our chairs on the desk . |
| 24 | We 're going to always have to fight against it and we 're always going to have to put ourselves on the agenda and put our issues on the agenda . |
| 25 | In this case a bass line must be chosen which avoids the forming of an excess of conventional triads and yet gives just the right harmonic equilibrium : ( In the above example , so as to follow the ‘ step-by-step ’ method of our exposition , we have deliberately avoided any alteration to the tenor part , and confined our changes to the bass only . |
| 26 | After dinner we all sat in the lounge , the camp supplied wine and Jerry supplied Scotch so we had a few drinks and said our farewells for the night and then back to our cabins were we slept on good mattresses . |
| 27 | The great and manly boxing-champion stood and watched while we packed , roped , and dragged our trunks down the narrow stair . |
| 28 | The English Tourist Board 's half of that erm is designed to persuade us , to persuade the British that erm is the year that we should discover Britain , this is the year that we should stay at home and take our holidays in the view of everything that 's happened , and in view of prices overseas . |
| 29 | He praises him for insisting that we free ourselves from the Idols , get rid of preconceived notions , and form our ideas on the basis of properly conducted experiments . |
| 30 | and squirt our souls into the heavens |