Example sentences of "our [noun] [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our sympathy goes to the bereaved and the injured . |
| 2 | I returned to the toll office , got our money refunded plus a signed waiver that allowed us seven days to return to St Michael without having to pay on the Austrian roads . |
| 3 | Our Vauxhall suffered from an annoying fifth gear whine on a trailing throttle but the engine 's hard-edged yet effortless snarl as it wound out to the 6600rpm cut-out is a far more satisfying sound than the Chrysler four . |
| 4 | Now in fairness it would n't be our responsibility to pay for a new engine if the vehicle had been drive on . |
| 5 | The final specification for our board relates to the mounting hardware for the board . |
| 6 | We slept well in our cabin rocked by the gentle movement of the boat as she drifted in and out against her moorings . |
| 7 | Our own particular case is our case went to the High Court some three hundred thousand pounds , when perhaps if we 'd had a dedicated pensions act setting out what could and could not be done , that would never have happened . |
| 8 | Fortunately the vague concept of wholesomeness has been overtaken by internationally agreed standards set by experts , in our case drawn from the European Community countries . |
| 9 | We discover this when we try to walk towards the cliffs , our progress hindered by the occasional disappearing foot and accompanying staccato shout of Shit ! |
| 10 | Our coverage begins with the biggest thing he did , then turns to the biggest thing he left undone . |
| 11 | We speak variant patois of Shakespeare and Norman Mailer , our institutions spring from the same instincts and traditions , and we share the same heritage of law and custom , philosophy and pragmatic Weltanschauung … starting from similar premises in the same intellectual tradition , we recognize common allusions , share many common prejudices , and can commune on a basis of confidence . |
| 12 | Our discussions ranged through the whole spectrum of life , from the sublime to the trivial , and while I do not now remember many of the conclusions that we reached then , the quality of that communication is still with me . |
| 13 | Sort of Oh we used to risk our necks walking across the ruddy this mill was a bit of a wreck actually and we used to go playing in places where we should n't have really . |
| 14 | Keep our fingers crossed for the poor kid ! |
| 15 | While I am sure we are all keeping our fingers crossed for the fledgling states of Eastern Europe , it is exceptionally hard to see how a group of dissidents could draw inspiration from the lyrics of Lou Reed . |
| 16 | Among the throngs of passing students I was thinking fondly of Jordi when someone who was obviously an American passed by , and our eyes met for a split second . |
| 17 | STEVE : ‘ Our eyes met across a crowded ice skating rink when I was 18 . |
| 18 | As our eyes open to the perilous state of the world , it is hardly surprising that so many sensible people are turning instinctively to the land and looking for smallholdings . |
| 19 | While we are n't ruled by the charts , we do want our songs performed by the right people . |
| 20 | I talk to him walking through a packed mid-evening Tokyo , our interview interrupted as a fellow headache passes by . |
| 21 | There are two problems with assuming that our figure applies to the whole Chinese population . |
| 22 | Our study describes for the first time the secretory and circulatory changes occurring with the progression of pancreatitis induced by caerulein infusion . |
| 23 | It is because trust has been eroded by the long running conflict between central Government and the teaching unions that as a nation we are far from realising the ideal of having our schools staffed by the true professionals that children deserve . |
| 24 | A ‘ MAGNIFICENT ’ equal third out of a filed of 374 , is how our entry fared in the worldwide competition to come up with a solution to re-seal the ruined Chernobyl reactor . |
| 25 | We might enter the room and sing our greeting accompanied by a few dance steps , but ask yourself whether the message might not be obliterated by the way our actions would be interpreted . |
| 26 | Consequently , our analysis used statistical methods appropriated for the analysis of data with unobserved effects ( our data comprised of a large number of daily histories , in the late 1980's which had been previously collected ) . |
| 27 | In this respect , therefore , our work conforms to the general principles of Labov 's work and is not comparable with studies ( experimental or otherwise ) that are based on the language of , for example , RP-speaking or near RP-speaking persons from amongst the analyst 's own university students . |
| 28 | Human life is gregarious , the quality of our lives depending to no small degree upon the relationships we have with other people . |
| 29 | The rate of Government grant erm to council housing is based on the notional value of that housing , so it 's based on the idea that we could actually get rid of all our tenants and sell all our council housing on the open market . |
| 30 | The two meetings on which I have reported to the House have shown our determination to work for a safer world and a new partnership with Russia in the cause of peace . |