Example sentences of "we [vb base] [vb pp] our [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the years my thoughts as well as my eyes have roved and as Jimmy Carter once said ‘ Ah have lusted in mah heart , ’ but as the car leaves the party and we 've waved our goodbyes to the other guests , it 's a rare night indeed that I have n't looked over and thought ‘ Thank God I 'm going home with him . ’ |
| 2 | We 've limited our ambitions to a number of very specific areas and we intend to develop those areas as rapidly as we can . |
| 3 | But , to take it in it 's totality , like Paul we can say , we 've committed our life to him . |
| 4 | " They say we 've sold our souls to France in return for rice fields over which the crane might fly all morning without encountering barriers . |
| 5 | We 're trying to fix the problem by reducing costs — we have cut our staff to 40,000 from 60,000 at the end of 1992 . |
| 6 | Each time we have extended our observations to smaller length scales and higher energies , we have discovered new layers of structure . |
| 7 | And in the 70s , we were again working in Appalachia ; and in recent years we have expanded our program to again include the entire south . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | We have expressed our interest to the receivers and we believe we have got a sensible business plan that can be developed . ’ |
| 10 | We have expressed our interest to the receivers and we believe we have got a sensible business plan that can be developed . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ We have expressed our interest to the receivers and we believe we have got a sensible business plan that can be developed , ’ he said . |
| 12 | We have expressed our wish to the council that we would like to be consulted over the detailed implementation of the conditions and sincerely hope that we will be allowed to play a constructive part in this process . |
| 13 | ‘ We have had our share of trouble , we have made our contribution to the need for power generation . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | And we have geared our bills to the kind of thing they are used to . |
| 16 | He went on , ‘ Lest we should seem to neglect our right and the gift of heavenly grace or be unwilling to conform the impulse of our will to the divine pleasure , we have recognized our right to the kingdom and have undertaken the burden of the rule of that kingdom , as we ought to do . ’ |
| 17 | But as soon as we are tired of them and we have discharged our duties to society each day , we can say to ourselves : ‘ All those things are of the mundane , but I am of the transcendent , and therefore far above them . ’ |
| 18 | I think it is sad that in so many areas of life , we have allowed our society to be so fragmented . |
| 19 | Bassett , who yesterday put midfielder Mike Lake on the transfer list , said : ‘ We have allowed our confidence to be affected by a few bad results . |
| 20 | We have shown our commitment to better equipment by our recent purchase of the Westland helicopter and our decision to re-equip the Army with the Challenger II tank . |
| 21 | We have shown our commitment to law and order as a major issue . |
| 22 | We have closed our ears to his cries and left him in the shadows while we walked in the light . ’ |
| 23 | If we have hoisted our colours to the mast and deliberately ignored a lot of evidence our research , as well as our views , will be hopelessly biased . |
| 24 | Moreover , for these firms we have confined our analysis to their Scotch Whisky business . |
| 25 | So far we have confined our attention to convergent margins where two plates are in motion towards each other . |
| 26 | We abandon what we have laid our hands to . |
| 27 | So far , we have restricted our studies to real eigenvalues . |
| 28 | So far , we have restricted our attention to unrepeated real roots of the characteristic equation belonging to a matrix A ; we now consider the case of two equal real roots . |
| 29 | So far we have restricted our attention to some of the main empirical trends behind the shift in the structure of the economy from manufacturing to services . |