Example sentences of "[verb] our [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Better , we 'll do the circuit , we 'll fuck our way round the whole of it , we 'll circumnavigate . ’ |
| 2 | President Gorbachev 's record as fairy godmother to the cause of democratic revolution , first in Beijing and now in East Berlin , may have caught our fancy in the West , but to some in Moscow he must seem more of a wicked stepmother , turning the achievements of Socialism to dust wherever he goes . |
| 3 | By contrast , the definition of a good frame is almost exactly the opposite ; it should be immediately absorbed without any period of consideration and , rather than being the focus of attention in itself , should direct our attention to the object within it . |
| 4 | We can consciously direct our attention to certain things and think about them . |
| 5 | The state of a country 's trading balance on a geographical basis may direct our attention to the condition of the trade balance with the rest of the world . |
| 6 | ‘ As a clergyman he might well consider our situation to be improper . |
| 7 | In the present series we report our experience with biliary endoprosthesis placing for the management of common bile duct stones over a two year period . |
| 8 | We report our experience in 40 patients in whom such criteria were fulfilled and in whom this technique was applied . |
| 9 | Unless we place our hope in the rebirth of true Hellenism through tragic music , there is no hope anywhere . |
| 10 | However sceptical we may be of the claims of medicine and its practitioners , we do , as Kosa said , place our faith in them when we can not cope by ourselves . |
| 11 | ‘ We should turn out in droves , all of us , and place our cross against the name of the person in whichever party will care more for the people , ’ said Mr Harper . |
| 12 | We should concentrate our help on banking and financial services . |
| 13 | We will again concentrate our discussion on one particular model ; and we have selected the one which is probably the most fully worked-out . |
| 14 | We shall concentrate our attention on the sterling contract . |
| 15 | We shall now concentrate our attention on his criticism of proposition ( b ) , the hypothesis that there exists a stable trade off relation between inflation and unemployment . |
| 16 | The Drosophila studies have not solved the memory problem , but they have certainly supplemented our understanding of its biochemical mechanisms . |
| 17 | ‘ The family , our school of life , is the Church in miniature , ’ she stated , and went on to tell us that we must recognise our unity in diversity and cherish our differences . |
| 18 | It seems we can now qualify our position on the relationship between dramatic playing and performance modes by saying that although the ultimate intention of the performer is to ‘ describe ’ an emotional event , the quality essential to dramatic playing , the quality of ‘ being ’ may also enter the performance mode , given the Stanislavsky approach . |
| 19 | We have resisted the temptation to link up with any beauty product firm simply because we want our panel of experts to give you nothing but honest , impartial and wholly unbiased advice . |
| 20 | ‘ We want our software to be widely available to anyone that wants it — a lot of people pick and choose the bits they want ’ . |
| 21 | The most crucial aspect is whether we want our currency to be locked into a stable currency in Europe or whether we want to be able to devalue our currency in the hope of averting unemployment . |
| 22 | I want er , I 'm just asking if er , anyone 's got er , comments to make to Vince and then Vince will reply to them , that 's the point , he 's got to reply to some of the comments er , that er Simon has made and then we 'll come to what we want our response to be . |
| 23 | We want our outlook to be confirmed as the right one . |
| 24 | However , when we want our speech to be candid , natural , and expressive , we discard the usual polite etiquette and call things by their real names . |
| 25 | it 's a bit Shylockish , we want our pound of flesh at the end of this day , now that , the fact that the cost of that pound of flesh will cost you more than this two hundred pound a week |
| 26 | ‘ This above all we share : we want our nation to be strong ’ — more cheering — ‘ and proud … ’ |
| 27 | We have been able to consolidate our position as the major private label breakfast cereal supplier to the French market and enjoy further growth in other European markets . |
| 28 | A vaudevillian menace charged our journey to Rome , the locomotive black and chimerical , and the Stazione Termini like an anti-cathedral with its soot-stained glass and vaultlike coldness and smell of earth 's crust or hell 's rafters . |
| 29 | Here the emphasis is on technology as an autonomous and primary force driving our society in a certain direction . |
| 30 | Flora was driving our car towards us , bumping over the ruts . |