Example sentences of "[vb pp] our [noun sg] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Oak said , ‘ But we have lent our aid to the Royal Houses of the Beastline in times of extreme danger and we have also fought to regain Tara for the rightful heir . ’ |
| 2 | By spending more resources on this matter , as I intend to do , having tripled our programme in the past 10 years , I believe that we shall make still further progress , with the help of education , too . |
| 3 | Congress as we all know , the failed economic policies of the government has pushed our nation to the very edge of bankruptcy . |
| 4 | Languages and their histories are invaluable resources for feminists analysing the workings of patriarchal societies , and in the last twenty years feminists have drawn our attention to the sexist implications of usage in many languages . |
| 5 | Paul Devereux has drawn our attention to the Irish nature mystic , George William Russell ( who wrote under the pseudonym AE ) . |
| 6 | ‘ You have shown our hand to the other side by saying we have no chance . |
| 7 | Sad-Core may have reduced our status to the sick man of Europe amidst the flourishing electronic dance scenes in Germany , Belgium and Holland , but some excavation reveals an underground whose shockwaves get bigger every day . |
| 8 | In recent times , we have concentrated our publishing on the changing Europe , including Eastern Europe . |
| 9 | Once we have finalised our response to the Welsh Office , I think it would be very useful if we could meet you to explore shared interests and clarify how best we can work together on this issue . |
| 10 | And it might even be said that it is from this , far more than from early Christianity , that we have inherited our sense of the dubious physical nature of the female , and our idea that the human norm is male and that to be female is in itself a pathological state . |
| 11 | A review of previous lexical access components together with an examination of relevant psycholinguistic and linguistic data influenced our design of the lexical access model . |
| 12 | It has been known since the 1970s that the vehicles which have dramatically increased our mobility in the last 50 years have also constituted a grave danger . |
| 13 | ‘ He says Hugh has taken our stranger to the Broken Drum . |
| 14 | Towards the end of that summer we had worked our way up the Irish Sea visiting most of the west coasts ports including Fishguard , Holyhead , Liverpool , Heysham , Workington , and a host of smaller estuaries such as the Dee , Menai Straits , and the very tidal Preston river . |
| 15 | We have maintained our share of the free trade market , despite intense competition and considerable pressure on margins . |
| 16 | ‘ We have both learnt our dialectic in the academic arena where knocks that would frighten the London literary coteries are given and taken in good part ; and even where you think me sometimes too pert you will not suspect me of malice . |
| 17 | I know we have doubled our support in the last 2 weeks and that 's the way we are going . |