Example sentences of "[v-ing] our [noun pl] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 're just unwinding before girding our loins for London . |
| 2 | To add insult to injury , our family health services authority is returning our claims for Haemophilus influenzae type B immunisation unpaid . |
| 3 | Next April 's meeting need do no more than put a tick alongside South Africa 's name and we can all start booking our tickets for the 1995 thrash . |
| 4 | We had to climb to FL070 maintaining VMC before we could contact Lisboa Military , and after passing our estimates for the TMA boundary , immediately requested the Porto weather and reports of CB activity . |
| 5 | We drew on these aspects in developing our recommendations for attainment targets and programmes of study . |
| 6 | Hope is about the unknown and prospects , about balancing our needs for security with the dangers of freedom . |
| 7 | It was like being in the adit of a mine , and I was driving into the bowels of the earth with a man who seemed hell bent on risking our lives for no apparent reason . |
| 8 | But unless you spent a lot on flowers and balls for the children and on Mary 's birthday present , considering that you had our 15/ and some 5/ or more yes more of your own a month ago , on which no calls but fares need have been made , to which was added about 30/ ( or more ? ) lately , and from it all not 30/ was spent on the dress , you should have a sovereign left : add to this the wages of this month to come , and there should remain , after 35/ to the spectacle man , fully a sovereign , which , considering our needs for the future & also your promises , nay , certainties , at which I laughed , should go to the bank . |
| 9 | In his introduction to the Annual Review , Dr Eyre stressed the importance of strengthening our opportunities for new business by forming commercial partnerships by acquisition and joint ventures . |
| 10 | " Running our risks for us are you — like El-ahrairah ? " |
| 11 | Rushing about the Rante , attached like Siamese twins by a synch-pulse cable , tripping over and swearing at each other , burying our heads for mysterious minutes in black film-changing bags , endlessly sticking our noses into other people 's business was a cause for considerable levity amongst the participants . |
| 12 | I 'd not expected to convince the police at the top of the falls that I was a very sane person , nor did I expect them to believe Paul 's emergency story that we were a group of passing Hippies taking our kayaks for a walk . |
| 13 | ‘ We 've been sitting around twiddling our thumbs for some of the time and people have been sloping off early , ’ he said . |
| 14 | She 's bound to be fussing with something or other when we arrive , and we 'll be twiddling our thumbs for twenty minutes before she condescends to appear . ’ |
| 15 | Thank you Lord , for hearing our prayers for those who have been ill and are now recovering ; thank you for the skills of hospital staff in caring for members of St Leonard 's over the past few weeks . |
| 16 | It was organised by the European Environmental Bureau , of which we are members , and aimed at clarifying our objectives for European Community action ( a Directive ? ) on CMZ in the run-up to the informal EC Environment Ministers meeting in Denmark later this month . |
| 17 | In preparing our views for the Government we felt one of the most pressing needs was to explain what the National Sustainability Plan is and why it is important , to a wider audience of opinion- formers and decision-takers in Wales . |
| 18 | In preparing our views for the Government we felt one of the most pressing needs was to explain what the National Sustainability Plan is and why it is important , to a wider audience of opinion- formers and decision-takers in Wales . |
| 19 | We may have moved on from the steel nib and the blackboard , but are we not educating our children for much the same reasons as we were 50 years ago ? |
| 20 | After two pitches I suffered one of those inexplicable aberrations and instead of following the blatantly curving crack into which we had been cramming our limbs for the last 60ft I launched up an unerringly straight vertical groove above the belay . |
| 21 | Sat there watching our floats for hours ! |
| 22 | We crowded round the table , straining our ears for the magic sounds , while Robert adjusted the cat 's whisker . |
| 23 | The next day we spent the forenoon ashore at Smeerenburg looking at the remains of the old Dutch whaling-station , and setting our feet for the first time on the Spitsbergen tundra . |
| 24 | We discuss and enjoy celebrating the seasonal festivals such at Christmas , Easter and Harvest , when we join with the rest of the Junior School in bringing our gifts for the sick , and those in need in the neighbourhood of the School . |
| 25 | From then on , we will be working on producing our recommendations for the future . ’ |
| 26 | As my vouchers are used up in about four months each year this means that for eight months I 'm out of pocket using our stores for the weekly shop . |
| 27 | If it means ‘ Will we have to pay more ? ’ , the answer is probably yes , unless we can compensate by reducing our charges for what we currently do . |