Example sentences of "[pron] [to-vb] our [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His comment ‘ If you do n't bother him , he wo n't bother you ’ did nothing to restore our shattered nerves . |
| 2 | Still the point was well made , I mean not sounding like you can sort of freeze an article to , not compromise the sort of committee , I mean , it is , dead if you give it away and you would n't consider pressure groups , they 'll pick up their report and their copies anywhere , and take bits out and quote you , I mean , I mean I know I 'm in this , I like to distort , like them to know our official disposition before it 's dead . |
| 3 | Some readers , particularly those convinced that if only we thought long enough , or prayed hard enough , we would discover reassuring tethering posts to which to secure our moral choices , will view with some disquiet the position reached so far . |
| 4 | It is this manipulation of time and viewpoint which enables us to choose an appropriate frame through which to explore our dramatic situations . |
| 5 | Of course , we had many political differences but the twin oppressions of being Irish lesbians and immigrants brought us together and gave us a strong framework upon which to build our own movement and within which to begin articulating our anger at English feminism . |
| 6 | ‘ Richard and Susan , I want you to meet our new member of staff , Simon Middleton , ’ Adam said , as a stylishly dressed young man held out his hand in greeting . |
| 7 | I want you to meet our latest recruit , Kim Ward . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Helloooo — I 'm sorry to ring you at home but I represent the High Hills Park Golf Course and Leisurama Centre and we 'd like you to open our new Theme Park and Sub-Aqua Scuba Centre . |
| 9 | Buckingham Palace , 12th December 1987 My dear Miss Jones , We are writing to you to express our sincere gratitude for the way in which you recently risked your life by diving in front of the runaway horse of one of our Lifeguards to save one of our Royal corgis . |
| 10 | I would therefore like you to note our major interest and concern in this matter . |
| 11 | In the context of such a history , how are we to interpret our local sensation , the death of an obscure Englishman , who acted as house agent , courier , travel guide , purveyor of groceries in short supply , house-sitter and , it has been daringly suggested , pimp to the English army of occupation in Chiantishire ? |
| 12 | We pumped enough of the stuff out of him to open our own bar . |
| 13 | He looked so miserable I decided to cheer him up by inviting him to join our little game , and started throwing handfuls of water over him . |
| 14 | Whenever a stranger approaches , we can not allow him to enter our private area until we are sure he is safe and friendly , because , if he is not , he will easily be able to surprise us with a sudden attack . |
| 15 | The way it is at present , we can not , we can not get more loot to put into the new project but the bank manager , i.e. the Chancellor of the Exchequer , reminded us a few months ago that the other way of funding our projects he encouraged us to look at our current assets and if possible liquidate some of that asset and fund it , or or use it to fund our new schemes and this Mr Mayor is what we should be doing . |
| 16 | As far as I can read her argument , it is precisely this which allows recognition of it to model our human position as suspended between , as she says at another point , unconditioned actor … and conditioned agent . " |
| 17 | Kevin and I had a bit of a scuffle , but it was nothing that did n't happen all over the park and certainly nothing to warrant our marching orders . |
| 18 | Nothing to bother our flinty-eyed Nemesis with . ’ |
| 19 | The last thing that the Labour Party now wants is a compact with failure — particularly since such an arrangement , formal or by implication , would require us to sacrifice our ideological identity . |
| 20 | Often , these have been successfully used in other research and this allows us to compare our own work with that of others . |
| 21 | As for the speed of the machine I can not comment as lack of time with the machine did not allow us to perform our usual tests . |
| 22 | Some malicious twist in the labyrinth of Sudanese bureaucracy required us to obtain our Sudanese visas , not at the embassy in London , ill the tranquillity of St James 's , but in Cairo . |
| 23 | If Disneyland , which is only 150 acres in size , can attract 10 million visitors a year , the opportunity must exist for us to attract our own type of tourist . |
| 24 | Obviously this does not signify that we have resolved our specific problem of " being women " nor that militancy can be the panacea which allows us to find our own identity . |
| 25 | Complications have also occurred that caused us to modify our original technique ; namely to abandon ultrafine guidewires , to use a reverse bevelled transjugular biopsy needle , and to avoid the percutaneous transhepatic placement of portal catheters for guidance . |
| 26 | Well now , because we were in the Ipswich Borough Police , we were in the fortunate position of knowing that we would serve our full thirty years in Ipswich , which enabled us to buy our own houses through building society . |
| 27 | Too often , rogue insurance sellers advise us to surrender our old policy , and sign up for one big enough to cover our new loan in full . |
| 28 | These contributions will enable us to subsidise our Annual Outing which members look forward to eagerly from year to year . |
| 29 | Finally , the consultation process induced us to broaden our proposed provision quite considerably . |
| 30 | The psychologist Abraham Maslow concluded that , if these basic physical and security needs are not satisfied , it is difficult for us to fulfil our higher needs . |