Example sentences of "[verb] our [noun sg] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If such stipulations are made for so mundane a practice as motoring , they would seem to be reasonable precautions for protecting our environment for the rest of time from possible damage by man-made creatures . |
| 2 | Government will work in partnership to secure our heritage for the benefit of future generations . |
| 3 | ‘ Let her enjoy our company for an evening . |
| 4 | Would n't It be better , Nathaniel , to let us all relax and enjoy our expedition for a few weeks ? |
| 5 | Let me give you the text of a talk I gave to the Bridport Women 's Institute , before the Scandal , and when Julian and I were still developing our blueprint for the world of the future . |
| 6 | Remember , you can at any time exchange our equipment for the latest models as soon as they become available . |
| 7 | Let us consider here just the relationship between the focusing and reasoning components in a system of this general type , and restrict our attention for the moment to the case of one pronoun in a sentence in the absence of any non-anaphoric ambiguity . |
| 8 | Thus , if we restrict our attention for the moment to pupils for whom a statement is made , the proportion ranges across LEAs from less than 1 per cent of the school population to nearly 3 per cent . |
| 9 | In spite of this , we have continued to invest in existing facilities and in extending our range of services in order to strengthen our position for the future . |
| 10 | It undermines our demand for the return of our homes . ’ |
| 11 | Although in some ways it seems hardly necessary to have to justify this , the concerns of management merit our interest for a number of reasons . |
| 12 | The work on the extension is well under way — we have n't regretted our decision for a moment . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ His US lawyer contacted ours and said he wanted to swop our daughter for a guarantee that he would n't be arrested ! |
| 14 | If you prefer to select your own meals , rather than follow our suggestion for the day , you will find selections of breakfasts , salads and snacks to choose from , with precise calorie values for each , on pages 99–100 , and main meal recipes at the end of Stage I and each week of Stage II . |
| 15 | ‘ We hereby give our consent for the purposes of Section 57(1) of the Financial Services Act 1986 to the issue of the investment advertisement attached hereto , dated and signed for the purpose of identification ’ . |
| 16 | Two ideas over-large for reconciliation are fronting each other now , and there 'll be no peace until there 's been — no , ’ he checked himself , ‘ I wo n't say a settlement , but at least a temporary losing and winning that shall silence us both until we get our breath for the next bout . |
| 17 | We were n't exactly holding our breath for the arrival of these Lakewood flat-top guitars , but within five minutes of the boxes being opened , the two of them — and one of them in particular — were drawing noises of appreciation from all present . |
| 18 | ‘ It is vital that we maintain our concentration for the entire match . |
| 19 | Last November ; we began our search for The Most Beautiful Hair of the Year in conjunction with Supersoft . |
| 20 | You could then bring in Regional Authorities with less power for the North West , the North East and to Yorkshire and Humberside and I do hope you 'll actually join me in supporting our motion for an independent . |
| 21 | May we reserve our admiration for the qualities people have rather than for what they own . |
| 22 | Until we begin to recognise our responsibility for the current situation , we will not come close to finding a solution that will lead African families to choose to have smaller families . |
| 23 | I used to discuss with my brother ways and means of becoming martyrs , and we agreed to go together to the land of the Moors , begging our way for the love of God , so that we might be beheaded there … . |
| 24 | We had arrived in Indonesia speaking very little of the language , with 20,000 feet of film stock and what was left of Ringo 's £2,000 , intending to film our search for the Bird of Paradise with the Bugis pirates aboard the schooners which Alfred Wallace himself had sailed in 125 years before us . |
| 25 | We urge you to consider our request for a nursery to be attached to the first school to give the children a head start in their education . |
| 26 | I think we still want our songs ( poetry , story , play ) to enable us to get through the day tunefully , to afford some new angle of vision that will ‘ give ’ us the world in a new way , elicit our love for the world again , though our faculties may be tired , though the world may be desolated . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Not only does it ignore the sense in which suffering can be unwitting but it also begs the question in favour of saying , when specific symptoms like struggling or urination occur in animals , that these are properly to be seen as , emotional responses ' ( which covertly elicits our sympathy for the conscious distress of the stricken human parent rather than the symptoms of it observed in the struggling , yet unaware , athlete ) . |
| 29 | We told no one what we knew and kept our secret for a year , while we plotted revenge . |
| 30 | Lincolnshire is a flat county , you see , exactly right for aerodromes , and they took our house for the airmen , I suppose . |