Example sentences of "[vb past] our [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The subjects were 20 Japanese patients with gastric ulcers ( 15 men and five women , aged 49 ( 13 ) years ) who visited our hospital for gastroendoscopic examination . |
| 2 | I had visions of having to pay vast amounts as ‘ punishment ’ , but in the end they just re-scheduled our flights for one whole day later . |
| 3 | ‘ We reiterated our support for US help and our reasons for seeing the envoy as one way in which the United States should express its friendship to Ireland and to Britain . ’ |
| 4 | Even with such a drastic cut , we estimated our losses for the first year as being in the region of £148,000 . |
| 5 | During our last seven months , as we prepared our recommendations for the secondary stages , the officials of the National Curriculum Council under their Chairman , Duncan Graham , were rewriting the attainment targets for the primary stages , supposedly in accord with the consultation exercise and Mr Baker 's own proposals about grammar . |
| 6 | Only one control tissue fulfilled our criteria for positivity . |
| 7 | IGNORED our plea for him to address the ‘ Southgate Semiotics Society ’ — a body ‘ concerned with discussing the most poignant examples of what we believe to be ironic , individualist/regionalist and deconstructionist English . ’ |
| 8 | We skied by day , and the rest of the time we explored our idea for Summit . ’ |
| 9 | Sometimes we joined our friends for refreshments and I shall never forget those picnic teas shared with the neighbours on the moor . |
| 10 | Some of us remember all too well what happened in the 1920s and 1930s when we allowed our hopes for a peaceful world to outrun our judgements on the need for defence . |
| 11 | Last November ; we began our search for The Most Beautiful Hair of the Year in conjunction with Supersoft . |
| 12 | And when we decided intensive veg and livestock did not mix , our gentleman farmer/neighbour bred our pests for us . |
| 13 | It was a leisurely day and we padded up the rough , warm rock of a plinth of slabs until an awkward overlap sharpened our claws for the crux pitch above . |
| 14 | When my Report was submitted to Mr Kenneth Baker , Secretary of State for Education and Science , he so much disliked it that he insisted that it should be printed back to front , starting with chapters 15 to 17 , which included our recommendations for attainment targets and programmes of study , and relegating the explanatory chapters 1 to 14 , which he thought unnecessary , to a kind of appendix . |
| 15 | She also edited our magazine for several years . |
| 16 | We wore our full uniforms and covered our heads for a refuelling stop at Arar in Saudi Arabia . |
| 17 | The joy on her face when he sang our request for her was incredible . |
| 18 | We told no one what we knew and kept our secret for a year , while we plotted revenge . |
| 19 | She took our island for herself and made us her warriors . |
| 20 | Lincolnshire is a flat county , you see , exactly right for aerodromes , and they took our house for the airmen , I suppose . |
| 21 | Rubbed our souls for soothing : |
| 22 | And he bought our motorbike for twelve pounds . |
| 23 | We discussed our plans for the living museum and theme park and told her about the oak tree . |
| 24 | ‘ We did our house for ourselves , not to impress others , ’ says Bill . |
| 25 | And just as you have in the past answered our call for money , so you are now ready to answer our call for people . |
| 26 | We had practical help too from hotels , stores and businesses in our City Centre Parish , as well as from Scotsman Publications , and we now acknowledge our gratitude to those companies who answered our call for help . |
| 27 | After dinner we all sat in the lounge , the camp supplied wine and Jerry supplied Scotch so we had a few drinks and said our farewells for the night and then back to our cabins were we slept on good mattresses . |
| 28 | The year I was eighteen I left our town for college . |
| 29 | Erm as part of the agreement on the demolition of the four remaining blocks of Three Hills erm Moat er became our partners for the rest of our development of Three Hills . |
| 30 | She pecked our hands for food and glared at us |