Example sentences of "[verb] our [noun sg] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We all ran like hell and when we stopped to catch our breath the police said keep on running , there 's another one . ’ |
| 2 | We can still give our opponent the chance to back off , we can still use reason , but he or she must realize that the wrong person has been picked for breakfast . |
| 3 | Yes , they probably would sing it in Latin in the Catholic , they they certainly use erm , Latin , and of course the words have changed depending whether it 's a King or a Queen on the s on on on the throne , and from , it 's gone from God Save Our Lord The King , to God Save Our Gracious Queen , and that came in , of course , in the time of Victoria , and then had to be brought in again , er , at the time of erm , Queen Elizabeth . |
| 4 | Moreover , we know our master the King , Ranulf . |
| 5 | As we finished our research the first woman Prime Minister headed the British Government . |
| 6 | ‘ It took a lot to make me miss our date the other night , Folly , ’ he whispered . |
| 7 | I fear that does not even begin to address our concern the assurances which were given on the last occasion about the Home Secretary 's attitude by the Noble Earl Lord which will no doubt be repeated later this afternoon , will of course hold good only for as long as Mr Howard is Home Secretary . |
| 8 | The screening of Brazilian film Pixote sold out and Ilors la Vie , a film about a photographer kidnapped in Beirut , caused someone to phone our Secretary the very next day and ask to join Amnesty . |
| 9 | fail to hold our breath the length of the tunnel |
| 10 | On Staurday when the results went our way the papers were full of the scum ‘ slipping ’ . |
| 11 | ‘ Knowing our weather the sun will probably be cracking the skies tomorrow , ’ Charlie joked as they started down Heymouth Brae . |
| 12 | She recalled what her father had said about ‘ knowing our weather the sun will probably be cracking the skies tomorrow ’ . |
| 13 | This production , which updates the play and sets it in the sixties , toured the Continent and gave our company the reputation it now enjoys there . |
| 14 | ( Laidler 1987 , p. 345 ) ( One argument for the UK fully joining the European Monetary System is that in order to maintain our par the UK would have to have the same ( low ) inflation rate as West Germany . ) |
| 15 | Being deaf to all other frequencies saves our brain the work of receiving and decoding more unnecessary noises . |
| 16 | Despite our spectacular surroundings it was those people who made our trek the memorable experience it was . |
| 17 | We made our place the upper glens and moorlands of Scotland in the north where Men could less easily find us . |
| 18 | We of the Left must work to make our Party the spearhead of struggle against Fascism , against War and against the National Government " . |
| 19 | Lying in the track of the depressions which so dominate our climate the island catches more than its fair share of bad weather and this , coupled with the conflicting tides of the North Sea and North Atlantic , makes the surrounding waters very troubled for most of the time . |
| 20 | In our September issue , last year , we invited Gardener readers to get out their cameras and enter our special The Gardener /Kodak Shades of autumn Photo Competition . |