Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] our [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of us believe that accidents always happen to someone else , which I suppose is how we are able to go about our everyday lives . |
| 2 | We only discriminate between our mediated experiences by a conscious effort , finding ourselves watching comedy , beauty contests and international disasters from the same chair . |
| 3 | In the first place , we all need to mourn for our own sins and for the negative contribution we bring into the world . |
| 4 | Apart from conjunctions and disjuncts which we have decided not to take into account for our current purposes , this is the only instance in which the theme of the clause is not the element that occurs in initial position . |
| 5 | We only wish our insomnia was due to our street lights being too bright or , at the very least , being in existence rather than concern about our families , friends and neighbours walking through our dark paths and streets . |
| 6 | Although world trends are blamed for our present problems , to a certain extent they result from bad legislation . |
| 7 | Is the first aim to make money ( we must obviously avoid losing it ! ) or to provide for our personal needs ? |
| 8 | Mother love , iron discipline , cooked breakfasts — nothing promises the protection we want for our six-foot babies . |
| 9 | Regular readers will know of our past adventures with food . |
| 10 | It was a miracle happening under our very eyes . |
| 11 | As far as the ‘ artisan'-producer is concerned , Carole King 's picture of institutionalized song-writing in New York in the early 1960s — ‘ squeezed into our respective cubby-holes … you 'd sit there and write and you could hear someone in the next cubby-hole composing a song exactly like yours ’ ( Frith 1983a : 13–12 ) — fits into exactly the same frame of reference as Abner Silver and Robert Bruce 's classic 1939 text , How to Write and Sell a Hit Song , which describes the ‘ standard ’ forms and techniques , and from which Adorno quotes with withering relish ( 1941 : 17–18 ) . |
| 12 | ‘ There are lots of very important issues between general aviation and the CAA : the cost of safety regulation , concern that there should be no overlapping between JAA and Safety Regulation Group activity , anxiety that we have n't yet succeeded with our European partners in finding a common way of funding safety regulation . |
| 13 | Erm , I 'm , I do n't know to what degree the specific er cases for development workers erm , and indeed the extra funding for Thamesdown fit into our corporate responsibilities , because we have n't phrased them yet , and we have n't seen the report . |
| 14 | It may be impossible for the apes to master a code that we would translate into our own terms . |
| 15 | But we should not retreat into our inner selves . |
| 16 | Our chances of ending the war quickly would certainly be greatly increased if the battle were won ; but if we failed to win it , even after what had already been achieved , our victory would merely be postponed and not rendered impossible , especially if we resolved in good time not to persist with our useless efforts at Verdun , but to take the initiative of attack elsewhere . |
| 17 | Moreover , what we perceive far exceeds what actually interacts with our nervous system ; for what interacts with our nervous systems is occurrent energy and what we perceive are continuant objects ( see earlier , p. 98 ) . |
| 18 | Feminists ca n't blame it all on men — since time began , men have delighted in our wobbly bits , thank heaven . |
| 19 | Our pain lies in our bodily selves , Larry , not in our souls . |
| 20 | The answer lies in our own hands . |
| 21 | Green consumers have strength and it lies in our growing numbers and our deep personal conviction that we want a planet fit for our children . |
| 22 | Therefore , many of us — but especially men — have fears , lurking in our subconscious minds , of being dominated again by a woman . |
| 23 | That is what we provide in our residential homes for elderly people . |
| 24 | That is what we provide in our residential homes for elderly people . |
| 25 | This effect is temporary unless the feeling which is linked with the tears can be experienced : therapists would say re-experienced , since the deep pain triggering the tears is seldom about experiences happening in our day-to-day lives . |
| 26 | It 's about what 's happening in our everyday lives , down the street , round the corner , including , and especially including civic art and architecture which , above all , could relate to the real lives of the community . |
| 27 | To stay and luxuriate in ordinary emotions and sensations means that the contemplative is trapped in our normal limitations . |
| 28 | Transport was scarce and we had to carry special identity cards when we moved from our own villages . |
| 29 | Page 3 models and rubber fetishists with a slave on the side flickered before our very eyes |
| 30 | Anglo-Welsh is attempting to deprive you of the opportunity to benefit from our excellent prospects . |