Example sentences of "[verb] our [noun sg] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wh what I 'd like to suggest , without going through it all again , is that perhaps we could agree to ask the Town Clerk to write to Planning Department and voice our concern at the way this matter is being handled . |
| 2 | ‘ We 've enjoyed our stay at the top and we want to stay there . |
| 3 | You must have noticed our grass at the front on your way in then . |
| 4 | Imagine our horror at the thought that we might now be held legally responsible for the tragic results of an inadequate diet . |
| 5 | Imagine our surprise at the start of this season when this fresh-faced , super-fit figure came striding across the Loughborough training pitch . |
| 6 | We opposed various stages of the Bill , regretting the fact that it did not cover consumer safety ; but , on Third Reading , I committed our party at the Dispatch Box — this was just before an election — to honouring the existence of the Office of Fair Trading and the appointment of John Methven as director general . |
| 7 | As we were paying our visit at the end of the morning , he may have been dressed ready for the office . |
| 8 | Our French Canadian friends have been very good company for us ( actually , the woman , Dorothy , is Scottish by birth and upbringing ) , and we have been improving our French at the breakfast table , so even if ( as I fear ) we shall come home unable to speak more than ‘ hullo ’ ‘ goodbye ’ and ‘ thank you ’ in Chinese , at least our French will be a bit better . |
| 9 | Well we complete our look at the weekend 's First Division action with brief highlights of this afternoon 's Milwall versus Middlesbrough game . |
| 10 | Finally we were allowed to shuffle in , pair by pair , with the other animals , paid our money at the one-person-only box-office , and spent the remains on hot snacks from the kiosk to bring the blood back to our frozen digits . |
| 11 | This year we shall be holding our Reunion at the Seymour Leisure Centre , close to Edgware Road Underground Station . |
| 12 | This incident caused a very serious morale problem with all pilots and a number of letters were written to the A.O.C. , stating our anger at the loss of Auger . ’ |
| 13 | Our selective emphasis upon locating our research at the grassroots or folk level , for whatever reasons , has perhaps led us to overemphasise our villagers ' stereotypical views of society for the sake of analytical convenience , to divide the world into fixed categories of ‘ us ’ and ‘ them ’ . |
| 14 | Our prospective visitor bowed to the inevitable and wrote to us : ‘ Owing to procedure for obtaining a visa usually taking a long time it seems impossible to start our work at the date you suggested . |
| 15 | The six clients attending our group at the Bristol Eating Disorder Clinic had been referred by their GPs . |
| 16 | His job is to look after us both as regards our work at the Institute as well as on recreational trips , and he does his best , although his English is perhaps not as good as it could be ( at least he sometimes does n't seem to understand what we say ) . |
| 17 | Wait for a suitable moment and say : " That is a very interesting point you have raised , Mr R. , which we might wish to take up at a later meeting , but I really do n't think it helps our problem at the moment . " |
| 18 | We wish to voice our dismay at the one-sided approach the article took , and note that our comments have never been requested . |
| 19 | May I express our disappointment at the last minute postponement of the carefully planned visit of Anne-Marie de Jonghe to Wales . |
| 20 | Anyway , in order to get our interest at the start of each lesson he usually involves us in a silly game of some sort , and I still clearly remember the drama lesson when , thanks to David Smith ( alias ‘ Daz ’ ) , the ‘ warm up ’ game went horribly wrong . |
| 21 | Suddenly Tambini had run over to where most of us stood , awaiting our turn at the firing point . |
| 22 | PALMERS Green Group and the Working Group for Children would like to thank all of you who supported our benefit at the 100 Club , Oxford Street , on 22 September . |
| 23 | This team came into being to fulfil a need in the Society for a means of showing our work at the very best level ; a group of performers who practise regularly together and have the facility to form up in teams of varying number according to the need at the time . |
| 24 | He climbed out of a ground floor window at the rear , then left the park at the point where the wall is lowest , avoiding our man at the gate . |
| 25 | The journey was a positive nightmare , increased by the darkness of the train ( lit by blue lights ) and the wretched rainstorm which greeted our arrival at the station . |
| 26 | Pat Keen has spearheaded the growth of Medau in CORNWALL over the past few years as well as organising our display at the Cornwellian Exhibition . |
| 27 | When we made our entrance at the church hall everybody stared . |
| 28 | This authority is taking a somewhat different view to that public inquiry than the erm the highways authority er after shire hill er erm so I I think if we were to take a decision tonight it could affect our position at the public inquiry adversely er and I would not want us to get into that situation so I think to some extent er councillor timing on this motions is wrong and we should n't be be er discussing it now . |
| 29 | You try selling pasties in the market — something we always did to supplement our income at the mine — but it 's impossible . |
| 30 | Among the best places to look for guidance are the relevant manuals themselves ( see our Booklist at the end of this book ) . |