Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] our [noun pl] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Gould , ’ the piece continued , ‘ has left our shores for Southern [ South Australia ] and we can not wish him better success than that which he has hitherto experienced . ’ |
| 2 | My Group faced great difficulties when we tried to formulate our recommendations for the teaching of grammar . |
| 3 | We 'd given our lives for their advancement . |
| 4 | The wood in the barn was soaked and we stood there in our dripping combat jackets close to despair ; we had been made to wear our helmets for the duration , and the oversized tin hats kept slipping over our faces , as we scrambled in the mud taking the wood to where the petulant staff were demanding hot coffee . |
| 5 | How can we as Black women have any faith in a police force which refuses to acknowledge our calls for help , refuses to provide protection , and refuses to take action against those who attack us ? |
| 6 | It is a summary of Lothian 's newly published Community Care Plan and tells you how we hope to develop our services for people in Lothian Region over the next three years . |
| 7 | My silly wee sister says she 's going to clean our shoes for Camphill . |
| 8 | The level of support from all the centres involved has been most encouraging and we would like to record our thanks for the co-operation and hospitality , which we have received ’ . |
| 9 | So we have put a marker in the ground and said we are not going to move forward in the production investment phase until we are satisfied that we have a fixed price at that point so we are actually going to cap our liabilities for Eurofighter with a max price for the whole of the remainder of the programme and then we will fix the price and hopefully get some economies from fixing at that point in time before we move forward into the next phase . |
| 10 | We were all hungry , so began to search our rucksacks for food which did not require to be cooked . |
| 11 | Events having turned out better than we expected , we returned to make our plans for the following Sunday when we intended to open . |
| 12 | It was after you decided that we 'd have to cancel our bookings for Venice next March because of the exchange rate . |
| 13 | Now we have this highly dynamized remedy our criteria for how to use them are different from those of the centesimal scale . |
| 14 | He could have slit our throats for us then and there and thrown us in the canal , likely as not . |
| 15 | Little more than a century ago , when the river ran free , the Comanche would have taken our scalps for being here . |
| 16 | We do n't have to ask our husbands for the money , we know it is paid to us because we have the day-to-day responsibility for our children . |
| 17 | Nor is a spiritual director a guru to whom we turn to satisfy our needs for dependence , even though we may recognize the hand of God providing this particular person at this particular time . |
| 18 | Some of us have to learn to forgive our parents for not being the people we might have wanted them to be . |
| 19 | If we 're going to draw some lines perhaps it would be reasonable to say well patients with a flow of greater than fifteen certainly are unlikely to be obstructed , and patients whose detrusor pressure is less than fifty would seem to fail to satisfy our criteria for obstruction , because obstruction in a urodynamic sense implies a high pressure and a low flow . |
| 20 | Spectrum bias is unlikely to have influenced our results for two reasons : ( 1 ) almost all the asthmatics agreed to be studied ( only 6% refused endoscopy ) and ( 2 ) one quarter of the asthmatics did not require chronic bronchodilator therapy , indicating that not all the patients had severe asthma . |
| 21 | As the chair is attached to Corpus Christi College , she had to resign her Fellowship at Somerville , where she had taught our biochemists for over twenty years . |
| 22 | A Ugandan pathologist studying African cancer trends was sceptical of Zimbabwe 's high lung cancer figures compared with other African nations until he had checked our records for himself . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Once we had got our jobs for the morning we set about then eagerly as everything had to be perfect right down to the last detail . |
| 25 | We 're scarcely going to feel we 've sold our souls for a plate of strawberries and cream , are we ? ’ |
| 26 | Cost reductions there are many , many actions we 've taken and so lots of the cost reduction is the accumulation of er of rather smaller ones , but the main ones are redundancy , sadly , more redundancy and we 'll give you the numbers in a second er we 've asked our suppliers for greater discounts or better discounts and been successful here . |
| 27 | The Government wish to present our proposals for legislation that will enable the electricity industry in Northern Ireland to be privatised . |
| 28 | On safety , Eurotunnel 's latest report states : The extended series of studies and tests required to support our proposals for non-segregation of passengers and their vehicles have continued . |
| 29 | It is much easier for us to disobey God when we have developed a calloused conscience , or have paralysed our desires for God . |
| 30 | Do n't choose aggressive , adrenaline-inducing activities but use exercise to activate the body fully as our nervous system and chemistry have primed our bodies for this purpose . |