Example sentences of "[v-ing] in our [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Therefore , many of us — but especially men — have fears , lurking in our subconscious minds , of being dominated again by a woman . |
| 2 | This effect is temporary unless the feeling which is linked with the tears can be experienced : therapists would say re-experienced , since the deep pain triggering the tears is seldom about experiences happening in our day-to-day lives . |
| 3 | Commenting on the report , WWF-UK 's forest conservation officer , Jean-Paul Jenrenaud , said : " We have spent too long pointing the finger at the tropical countries for cutting down their forests , without examining what is happening in our own backyard . " |
| 4 | It 's about what 's happening in our everyday lives , down the street , round the corner , including , and especially including civic art and architecture which , above all , could relate to the real lives of the community . |
| 5 | ‘ For Hepworth , there are encouraging signs of recovery in some of our UK operations , although trading in our continental businesses is less buoyant . ’ |
| 6 | Obedience is part of the maker 's instructions , and there is no guaranteed success without it ; for obedience is a God-created way of ensuring that we learn the right habits of living in our early years . |
| 7 | They are a normal part of the gut flora — the millions of bacteria and other microbes living in our digestive tract , mostly in the large intestine . |
| 8 | Granny had originally come to stay with us while her house was being fumigated but that had been months before and there was no excuse for her to continue living in our overcrowded home . |
| 9 | We have now been a week living in our big bungalow and it is working out well — at least we are saving lots of money looking after ourselves . |
| 10 | When we heard of the decision to construct a new reservoir on the Durham/Northumberland border , Ann and I carefully noted opening day in our diary ; and on the appointed morning we rose at dawn and sallied forth , bustling by ash-covered Consett Iron Works , the light of battle glinting in our trout-starved eyes . |
| 11 | Adds the star : ‘ We wanted to start another business to keep us going in our old age . ’ |
| 12 | The cicadas seem to stop chirruping in our immediate vicinity . |
| 13 | By placing one foot behind the other , as in figure B , the standing position can be very much improved , resulting in our whole structure being much more at ease . |
| 14 | May I urge him to press for a return to traditional standards of teaching in our primary schools as soon as possible ? |
| 15 | We hear them preaching in our own language about the marvels of God . |
| 16 | All three Synods have some common features , a desire to be attentive to the circumstances of today 's world , a desire to deepen our mutual understanding of what it means to be the church , following our different callings and collaborating in our common mission , and a call to renew our sense of being an evangelising church . |
| 17 | Thus we are accumulating in our local rubbish dumps tons of baby excreta , some of it infected , which sooner or later will dribble into our water supply . |
| 18 | Graham Sharpe , spokesman for Hills , who cut the second favourite , Double Dutch , from 7-1 to 6-1 and Royal Square from 16-1 to 10-1 yesterday , countered by saying : ‘ We have often been criticised for including in our ante-post lists horses that trainers later said were never intended runners . |
| 19 | Many Britons undergo training in the UK after trying the sport abroad and then continue diving in our colder UK waters . |
| 20 | It is a receiver and transmitter of all energy patterns existing in our physical universe . |
| 21 | ‘ But we had managers who were trying to get us to play the steak houses of LA , which is like a trip to nowhere , and yet there was this cult thing growing on the East Coast and in the South , and it turned out that by the time we joined Fleetwood Mac we were headlining in our own right to five thousand people in the South and East , but totally starving in LA ! |
| 22 | The recession may be biting in our own larders . |
| 23 | It is the problem of talking in our own terms about systems based on other rationales than our own , adapted as these terms are to our own system . |
| 24 | We would be playing in our own street , or possibly with friends in Abbotsford Place , Cumberland Street , or Apsley Place . |
| 25 | Towards the end of his reign , in the ordinance of the forest of 1306 , the king speaks of being confronted ‘ with the inspection of human weakness ’ and the wide burdens that fell upon him , he being ‘ inwardly tormented with divers compunctions , tossed about by the waves of divers thoughts ’ , and being ‘ frequently troubled , passing sleepless nights , … hesitating in our inmost soul upon what ought to be done , what to be held , or what to be presented ’ ; ‘ about this chiefly is our mind busied without intermission , that we may prepare the pleasantness of ease and quiet for our subjects dwelling in our realm , in whose quiet we have some rest , and in their tranquillity we are inwardly cherished with odours of satisfaction and the flowers of hoped-for peace . ’ |
| 26 | The difference is that , far from investing in our own industry , the Government of this country is slaughtering it . |
| 27 | Boats and ferries potter the local coves and islands if you have n't done enough pottering in our own craft . |
| 28 | It left us quaking in our own home . |