Example sentences of "[verb] our [noun pl] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As trade unionists representing our members in the workplace , this is something we would be unhappy with , to go through a procedure with one of our members and know that that member has lost but not exactly know why . |
| 2 | And one blessing is that we are n't likely to be saddled with the tag ‘ Team of the Nineties ’ — which is a real kiss of death — while we 're trying to find our feet in the Premier League . ’ |
| 3 | I , d' ya know that , do you know our poppies in the garden , those big ones ? |
| 4 | ‘ There 's no way we can bury our heads in the sand and pretend the problem does n't exist . |
| 5 | ‘ We can not bury our heads in the sand and become competitive just by thinking that we are . |
| 6 | The Army of the 1990s will be structured to meet our needs in the face of a changed threat , in particular the end of the Warsaw pact and the millions of Warsaw troops who previously were geared immediately to face us . |
| 7 | We put our materials in the form of a kit ( teachers ' notes , students ' handouts , a tape ) . |
| 8 | Introducing subscripts 1 and 2 for denoting our quantities in the two dielectrics , we may write |
| 9 | He will merely be remembered as the man who told us , as the Minister of Energy during the four-day week in the last days of the Heath government , to clean our teeth in the dark , for heaven 's sake . |
| 10 | Then there were the enraged gay groups who deemed this screenplay to be politically incorrect , and who disrupted filming by encouraging passing motorists to ‘ honk if you support our boys in the Gulf ’ . |
| 11 | ‘ To make full use of it we should be publishing our books in the world 's biggest English language market . ’ |
| 12 | Fortunately w the canal was close to , we all er rushed to the canal and wash our hands in the canal and wash our face cos the vapour had gone on to us . |
| 13 | ‘ Our task is to help our customers in the short term use them more efficiently , and as quickly as possible bring to the market new products which will not have any interaction with the ozone layer . |
| 14 | We have wonderful eighteenth-century objects , but would like to strengthen our holdings in the nineteenth century . |
| 15 | We were taken off for a shower — which was welcome as I had n't washed properly since the night before I left London- and then shown our beds in the barrack rooms on the second and third floors . |
| 16 | But Flashman said : ‘ We have had our run-ins in the past , but that 's all behind us now . |
| 17 | They have n't got our contacts in the postal service . ’ |
| 18 | The Chief Education Officer sorry Director also contain these warnings in her introduction , she reminded us that we would have to discharge our responsibilities in the years to come , she reminded us that decisions are never easy and she reminded us that we need to show that we are capable of firm managerial action . |
| 19 | We assembled our rods in the shelter of the old boathouse on the south shore and I strode purposefully to the loch , almost as a matter of principal . |
| 20 | In one sense you could say that we begin our lives in the wheelchair of the womb ; we begin our lives literally by being carried around . |
| 21 | ‘ Mr Butters says we have buried our heads in the sand but the officials will not commit the club to a debt of this nature , ’ he said . |
| 22 | We turned our heads in the direction the Brigadier is pointing and see a Commando about a hundred-and-fifty yards away towards the end of the orchard and almost obscured by the trees , making his way slowly in the direction of Scouse 's latrine . |
| 23 | In the same way they look up into the night sky to see the stars and feel the awe and wonder of the infinite worlds with their infinite distances into which may be submerged all our preoccupations as if we had washed our souls in the oceans of space . |
| 24 | Lack of sufficient oxygen affects our bodies in the same way . |
| 25 | ‘ But I would like to bring in another player on loan to cover our injuries in the short term . |
| 26 | Shilton had said earlier : ‘ I have made an offer to the club to pay for a player on loan myself to cover our injuries in the short term . |
| 27 | Her Majesty 's Government will continue to fight to persuade our colleagues in the European Community that the proposals are not only unnecessary and unjustifiable , but would be extremely damaging to employment throughout the Community , particularly in the United Kingdom . |
| 28 | All I want is the truth , the real reason why you decided to come here , why you suggested that we try to ease our differences in the first place . ’ |
| 29 | We are just holding our thumbs in the hope that the machinery and fabric will last through the summer months . |
| 30 | If we choose to use our resources in the most efficient place at the moment we may avoid those areas which are not so efficient but which will be more valuable in the future . |