Example sentences of "[v-ing] our [noun pl] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ By lowering our costs over the last two years we feel we can now pass some of those savings on to customers . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Frantz Fanon , who was there , related : ‘ Dr Nkrumah made a point of receiving our delegates among the first . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Skipper David Graveney said : ‘ We 'll be finalising our plans in the next couple of weeks . ’ |