Example sentences of "[vb past] our [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Between 150 and 200 prospective customers visited our stand on the first morning , ’ says Patrick Fitz-Gibbon , public affairs manager with Unipart , who organized the event . |
| 2 | Ash and I levered our way through the press of people while I undid my jacket and struggled to extricate my half-bottle of whisky from a side pocket . |
| 3 | Mr. Munby , for the Official Solicitor , representing Miss T. , drew our attention to the line of probate cases which had considered undue influence . |
| 4 | Finally , on this part of the case , Miss Wicks drew our attention to the fact that in In re S. ( A Barrister ) [ 1981 ] Q.B . |
| 5 | Kay Evans who is greatly involved in work for the improvement of the quality of life of handicapped people , drew our attention to the fact that the United Nations has proclaimed 1981 as the International Year for Disabled People . |
| 6 | It 's time we shouted our message from the rooftops — being over 40 , middle-aged , whatever you call it , is fun . |
| 7 | We had cycled on the road from Bodø to Fauske and on the Sulitjelma ; pushed the bikes over to Sorjusjaure ; ridden and swum our way to Staloluokta within the Padjelanta National Park ; and then thrashed our way on the faster tracks through Arasluokuoktastugorna , Låddejåkkåstugana and Kisurisstugan to Akkastugorna and a ferry to Ritjemokk , before cycling by road to Vietas ; and gone by plane to Sitastugan at the north-west end of Sitasjaure . |
| 8 | We already reviewed our position on the recruitment of unemployed people as outlined in a new concept of trade unionism , prepared and , specially prepared , for this Congress . |
| 9 | We found our way to the desk for Saudi Arabian Airlines when we had our first alarm . |
| 10 | ‘ I found our colonel in the phone book ; I remembered old Marks say he thought they might be a Cornish family . |
| 11 | Ah , we was we was talking about going about somewhere but er , we changed our mind in the end , cos it was er |
| 12 | They would hail us , waving their arms to the beat , as we thumped and bumped our way along the highway . |
| 13 | Mercifully darkness obscured the dripping , gale-lashed countryside as we bumped our way down the unsurfaced track which led from the main road to Number Five , our new home . |
| 14 | They wanted to see a positive statement from the Government which demonstrated our commitment to the future of the railways . |
| 15 | He 'd give us a withering look as we slogged our way round the parade-ground , attempting to move like real soldiers . |
| 16 | We had our own British equivalent in The Professionals and The Sweeney which added our apocrypha to the Gospel according to Hollywood . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It was with such proclamations that the Cubists confirmed our lurch into the twentieth century and confronted us with the sometimes harsh realities that are alternative to the Renaissance view of mankind and certainly far removed from the elegances of Art Nouveau , Tiffany 's , the Moulin Rouge and the Paris Métro . |
| 19 | When we were satisfied that all the holes in the walls , main door , loft door and roof were sealed up , and nothing could get in or out , we turned our attention to the exterior . |
| 20 | In chapter 2 we turned our attention to the various types of bonding between atoms , ions and molecules and saw how the bonding related to the structure and properties of matter . |
| 21 | I just drifted away to the sound of the engine as we hammered our way up the Pan-Americana . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ Sources close to these clever men — in distance , that is to say , not philosophy — last week informed our coterie of the cruel nature of these … in-vest-igations , the effects of which you have yourself witnessed this very evening . ’ |
| 24 | What we did was we based our forecast , which I think Mr raised that point , we based our forecast on the admissions that we did at the Department of Social Security and I 'm glad to say that we have been significantly under that level and partly I think because er we 've had people who have genuinely diverted into home care and who 've been able to which is why we 've put the pressure on home care and on the occupational therapy services and partly because erm the , there were some inappropriate admissions I must say that . |
| 25 | You know that your brother killed our son in the course of robbing him : but another brother has done me worse harm . ’ |
| 26 | We hacked our way into the left atrium and left ventricle , admiring the porterhouse heft of the muscles . |
| 27 | Charlie and I elbowed our way through the crowd . |
| 28 | As we tunnelled our way through the steep rhododendron-canopied paths at Aros , Alistair said the rain , the humidity and the terrain reminded him of his ‘ spell in Assam during the War . |
| 29 | We slowly sweated our way up the steep mountainside on wet , slippery grass which gave way to wetter , slippier rocks looming vertically out of the swirling mist . |
| 30 | When we began our work on the secondary stages we considered whether to add a fourth profile component , knowledge about language , but we rejected this plan for two reasons . |