Example sentences of "[verb] our [det] [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | We want our own money for the housework we do . |
| 2 | We define ourselves as ‘ normal ’ by repressing our own capacity for violence or the visionary — just as we suppress and marginalize those people in the body politic who 've gone over limits . |
| 3 | If it 's happening so often then should we not be having our own procedure for that to happen ? |
| 4 | ‘ And , ’ he added , ‘ there 's half a dozen small lorries to carry heavy supplies — stuff like diesel to run our own generator for electricity if the hydroelectric power fails . ’ |
| 5 | Jung suggests that ‘ something in us wishes to remain a child ; to be unconscious or at most conscious only of the ego ; to reject everything foreign , or at least subject it to our will ; to do nothing , or , in any case , to indulge our own craving for pleasure or power . ’ |
| 6 | Queen Elizabeth of England was visiting Amsterdam for the William and Mary celebrations — three-hundred years of English-Dutch friendship — so us Dutch queens planned our own reception for her . |