Example sentences of "[vb pp] our [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Following her attendance as a guest at the C.C.P.R. 50th Anniversary Festival , when she was very impressed by both Medau items , Dame Ninette de Valois has graciously accepted our invitation for her to become the Society 's Patron . |
| 2 | " Ringo 's accepted our proposal for repeating Wallace 's search with the Bugis pirates for the Greater Bird of Paradise . |
| 3 | ‘ The Seven have done our work for us , Soren . ’ |
| 4 | The man behind the final stages of the planning was the then Deputy Chairman of the Board , Mr J M Woolf , CB , a great advocate for and a frequent visitor to the cutters who had seen our need for more sophisticated and faster boats . |
| 5 | ‘ Looks like we 've had our trouble for nothing , ’ Jack said , with appropriate satisfaction . |
| 6 | The work on the extension is well under way — we have n't regretted our decision for a moment . ’ |
| 7 | There were even rumblings that we might represent a sort of Karmic return of this man — who had apparently shared our obsession for their sailing craft , as well as for Bira 's surrounding wildlife . " |
| 8 | But now it is miserablish English-type April weather , and we have abandoned our plan for a walk in the woods near Nanking for tomorrow . |
| 9 | ‘ Nevertheless , ’ Artai said , ‘ We have issued our order for the watch to be strengthened . ’ |
| 10 | But we are still unhappy to have lost our holiday for something that seemed out of our control . |
| 11 | But the amazing thing was that , just after we 'd recorded our bit for the Gardeners ' World programmed , I spotted a couple of butterflies fluttering around the garden . |
| 12 | We have always remained faithful to our roots in the trade protection movement and we take pride in the fact that we have maintained our independence for one hundred and fifty years . |
| 13 | And for this reason we have expressed our support for the Programme of the Revolutionary Democratic Government of the FMLN-FDR . |
| 14 | Nor have we really explained our feeling for these sequences : why an order is more appropriately followed by a refusal than by a reassurance , for example . |
| 15 | In our choice of institutions to whom we have sent the tape , we have tried to get as wide a scope of research as possible and have now completed our quota for the pilot . |
| 16 | When we arrived half an hour later , all the canoes were unloaded from the trailer and we were all kitted-out with a helmet and life-jacket and given our canoe for the day . |
| 17 | Not the kind of benefit that we would have traded our son for , but no longer can anyone look at us when we try to console their loss of a child and say , ‘ But you do n't understand ’ . |
| 18 | I have also mentioned our desire for cross-screen scrolling of KWIC and the ‘ more context ’ options ( screens £32 , £33 ) and he is to look into that as well . |