Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] our [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We only discriminate between our mediated experiences by a conscious effort , finding ourselves watching comedy , beauty contests and international disasters from the same chair . |
| 2 | Initially at least , most of us find our thinking about Japan grounded in the differences we perceive between our own society and Asia 's New Giant . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | They account for our general sense of the appropriacy and inappropriacy of language as reflected in impromptu observations about style , varying from Queen Victoria 's remark on Mr Gladstone that " he speaks to Me as if I were a public meeting " , to more everyday comments like " No one would ever speak like that " , and to attributions like colloquial , journalistic , biblical , childlike , pedantic . |
| 5 | At midday we made our way to Plover Hide for our promised reward : an afternoon 's bird watching . |
| 6 | Send for our latest catalogue and price list showing our comprehensive range of profiles and ancillary products from British Steel including : Outer Profiles with matching liners , Curved Eaves and Corners , Flashings , Trims and Rainwater goods . |
| 7 | We have booked a date , time and place for our next meeting . |
| 8 | Mother love , iron discipline , cooked breakfasts — nothing promises the protection we want for our six-foot babies . |
| 9 | There is no inconsistency in my and my neighbour 's holding that we each should look after our own dog ( or sleep with our own wife , come to that ) . |
| 10 | They are usually overheard and slip into our own use without any effort or thought . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Look how well Charles and I fit into our own quarter of it ! ’ |
| 13 | Therefore Congress , we must call on the C E C to answer the confusion in plain English , so that I , and I 'm sure many other of our members , can understand in the form of a document circulated to the branches so that we can go forward into the future at least understanding where we fit into our own union . |
| 14 | That is what we provide in our residential homes for elderly people . |
| 15 | That is what we provide in our residential homes for elderly people . |
| 16 | ‘ We now have a couturier cosmetic service , as we will mix any colour of any product for a customer if they ca n't find what they want in our standard range . ’ |
| 17 | If he were inclined to decide against Elmer , he would worry whether this decision is consistent with the position statutes occupy in our general scheme of jurisprudence , as he understands this . |
| 18 | This , after all , we ourselves acknowledge in our own world when we speak of ‘ witch-hunts ’ against communists in America , or counter-revolutionary capitalists in socialist states . |
| 19 | All at once the range of plants we can grow has extended to include many of the magically evocative creatures that we encounter on our annual run for the sun . |
| 20 | If we deny this , surely we deny profit to society , opportunity for today 's older people and hope for our future selves . |
| 21 | The expressive effect created by the use of the to infinitive in this type of context thus provides further support for our explanatory hypothesis . |
| 22 | There are 500,000 nurses in Britain today on whom we depend for our good health at home , in hospital and at work . |
| 23 | It is therefore entirely possible that the Kremlin will delay a resumption of negotiations and wait for our natural impatience , our demobilization problems , declining American interest in Korean affairs and local dissatisfaction with the division of the country to oblige us to supply speedy solution of these terms , i.e. a united front which excluding [ excludes ] all but elements controlled by the Communist Party . |
| 24 | When we speak of our economic growth on the basis of market relations ( this is the ‘ meaning ’ of NEP from a certain angle ) , we thereby disprove the thesis of the opposition of socialist accumulation ( even ) to the law of value . |
| 25 | We will put our women behind us in the mountains , and die in our own land fighting for them . |
| 26 | Er , this year hopefully er , with pressure , again as I said earlier but nevertheless we are hoping and having er , put in our new price increases for the season which is more or less beginning now . |
| 27 | And we do n't let anything — or anyone — interfere in our private lives . |
| 28 | Firstly , it is this part of the brain which absorbs the social and sexual training which we receive from our earliest years and it governs our thoughts and actions accordingly . |
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| 30 | Why has this major change in attitudes come about , and why all this concern about health in an affluent Western world where we can congratulate ourselves and count on our good fortune in having all the benefits of modern medicine to protect us unlike the peoples of the developing world ? |