Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] our [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Most of us believe that accidents always happen to someone else , which I suppose is how we are able to go about our everyday lives . |
2 | Further to my letter of 3 September 1992 , I am most grateful to you for your permission to borrow for our forthcoming exhibition on John Slezer the Slezer drawings of Edinburgh held by Edinburgh City Libraries , and shall be in touch with Miss McDougall about practical arrangements in due course . |
3 | On the other , we have still to wait for our final adoption at the Second Coming ( Rom. 8:23 ) . |
4 | We only discriminate between our mediated experiences by a conscious effort , finding ourselves watching comedy , beauty contests and international disasters from the same chair . |
5 | In the first place , we all need to mourn for our own sins and for the negative contribution we bring into the world . |
6 | I tell you , if I 'd have know what the content of the training was gon na be , I would 've arranged for our twelve crime prevention officers to go across there and listen to it , because there was a locksmith there that gave a lot of sound advice in relation to security of homes as well cars that really was good basic grounding for a crime prevention officer . |
7 | The Sun Alliance Personal Accident Plan has been exclusively developed for our existing Sun Alliance Policyholders . |
8 | Initially at least , most of us find our thinking about Japan grounded in the differences we perceive between our own society and Asia 's New Giant . |
9 | Apart from conjunctions and disjuncts which we have decided not to take into account for our current purposes , this is the only instance in which the theme of the clause is not the element that occurs in initial position . |
10 | They account for our general sense of the appropriacy and inappropriacy of language as reflected in impromptu observations about style , varying from Queen Victoria 's remark on Mr Gladstone that " he speaks to Me as if I were a public meeting " , to more everyday comments like " No one would ever speak like that " , and to attributions like colloquial , journalistic , biblical , childlike , pedantic . |
11 | The answer to that question , in essence at least , was provided nearly thirty years ago , by a perceptive schizophrenic introspecting about our own psychotic experience . |
12 | In so far as there is surveillance of us , we tend to feel it is largely intended for our own good , to avoid us getting into difficult situations , etc … |
13 | ‘ Ground Reconnaissance From Public Transport ’ is the title of the pamphlet he produced for our last AGM . |
14 | And now we 've all managed to carve out or own identities , and to be recognized for our own distinctive bodies of work . ’ |
15 | We set out to carry this out and passed through our old rendezvous on route . |
16 | At midday we made our way to Plover Hide for our promised reward : an afternoon 's bird watching . |
17 | ‘ But we have to suffer for our wanting , ’ said Liz . |
18 | I 'd forgotten about our old friend . |
19 | Is this the full complement of men you 'll need for our next operation ? ’ |
20 | The tax burden under this Government rose during our first two and a half years because we inherited at the top of the business cycle a borrowing requirement of 5.5 per cent . |
21 | IAN RUSH makes a welcome return to action for crisis club Liverpool here tonight insisting : ‘ We must win for our own good . ’ |
22 | We only wish our insomnia was due to our street lights being too bright or , at the very least , being in existence rather than concern about our families , friends and neighbours walking through our dark paths and streets . |
23 | Send for our latest catalogue and price list showing our comprehensive range of profiles and ancillary products from British Steel including : Outer Profiles with matching liners , Curved Eaves and Corners , Flashings , Trims and Rainwater goods . |
24 | Teachers in tonight 's audience will almost certainly know about our free catalogue , listing over a hundred different resource materials [ including several award winners ] . |
25 | Managed to let him know about our Social and sold him a book of Christmas Draw tickets . |
26 | ‘ What do independent experts say about our 10 extra pages ? ’ asks the advertisement . |
27 | The next day we landed at Mackay and re-fuelled for our last leg . |
28 | Although world trends are blamed for our present problems , to a certain extent they result from bad legislation . |
29 | In an amplified state it is generally referred to as ‘ expanded consciousness ’ — a condition that allows us to process through our nervous system , information from the environment which during a normal state of consciousness is totally inaccessible . |
30 | But in a strange way he has done wonders for our social life . |