Example sentences of "our [noun] [vb -s] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 our skin sags like a deflating
2 Child-minding — considering the amount of time our child spends with a minder for us both to have careers , is it acceptable ?
3 ‘ Thus our membership varies from a 17-year-old to a retired company director and we want to attract even more employees to join our ranks . ’
4 Because our sample consists of a cohort of individuals , calendar time effects can not be distinguished from duration effects .
5 And do n't forget , our service operates on a freephone basis .
6 Our example comes from a pianoforte duet by Dvořák , ‘ Aus stürmischen Zeiten ’ , No. 6 of a set of pieces called Aus dem Böhmer Walde .
7 We were created for relationship and most of our learning happens in a context of relationship , whether through talking , questioning , discussing , telling , off-loading , or through listening , watching , considering , receiving , taking in .
8 Hourcade condemned it as un-French : ‘ our tradition calls for a subject and the originality of Cubism lies precisely in its rejection of the anecdote in order to rediscover the subject ’ ; and he repudiated the idea that all the painters of the Section d'Or had renounced natural appearances : ‘ … it is absolutely false to say that all these painters are turning their backs on nature and want only to produce pure painting . ’
9 OUR family lives in a cottage in Scarisbrick ( pronounced Scazebrick ) that is more than 100 years old .
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