Example sentences of "[vb pp] our [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | President Gorbachev 's record as fairy godmother to the cause of democratic revolution , first in Beijing and now in East Berlin , may have caught our fancy in the West , but to some in Moscow he must seem more of a wicked stepmother , turning the achievements of Socialism to dust wherever he goes . |
| 2 | I have not forgotten our conversation about the need to get serious global environmental problems across to ‘ ordinary people in Wales ’ at a very personal level . |
| 3 | ‘ We 've enjoyed our stay at the top and we want to stay there . |
| 4 | Each year has deepened our understanding of the way the processes of development impact upon the environment . |
| 5 | The Oak said , ‘ But we have lent our aid to the Royal Houses of the Beastline in times of extreme danger and we have also fought to regain Tara for the rightful heir . ’ |
| 6 | During recent years , groups such as Fretwork and Hesperion XX have considerably broadened our knowledge of the richly satisfying repertoire for viol consort . |
| 7 | We British have accepted our membership of the EC because we reckon we shall be more prosperous in than out . |
| 8 | You must have noticed our grass at the front on your way in then . |
| 9 | ‘ We have had our share of trouble , we have made our contribution to the need for power generation . |
| 10 | We had made our break under the trees — the worst place to be in that dreadful weather — so I urged my group on . |
| 11 | Perhaps I 'll play The Honey Smugglers ' ‘ Listen ’ just one more time , then snooze off counting the many great records that indie music has thrust our way in the past . |
| 12 | By spending more resources on this matter , as I intend to do , having tripled our programme in the past 10 years , I believe that we shall make still further progress , with the help of education , too . |
| 13 | The cinema has shaped our perception of the robot , or more correctly , the android . |
| 14 | Congress as we all know , the failed economic policies of the government has pushed our nation to the very edge of bankruptcy . |
| 15 | He translated for us and it was only after he had argued our case with the Head of Austrian Customs that we started to get somewhere . |
| 16 | Paul Devereux has drawn our attention to the Irish nature mystic , George William Russell ( who wrote under the pseudonym AE ) . |
| 17 | Languages and their histories are invaluable resources for feminists analysing the workings of patriarchal societies , and in the last twenty years feminists have drawn our attention to the sexist implications of usage in many languages . |
| 18 | My Noble Friend Lord was if I may say so his usual wonderful combination of modesty and vehemence has erm drawn our attention to the very confused situation which arose . |
| 19 | ‘ You have shown our hand to the other side by saying we have no chance . |
| 20 | In the 16 years in which we have had our part of the legislation , we have applied for only 31 people to be tried in the Republic , of whom only 16 were convicted and the Irish Republic has not applied for any such cases at all . |
| 21 | We have actually had our picture of the universe changed for ever . |
| 22 | Let let can I tell you in conjunction with Lincolnshire erm the N F U produced a leaflet that they 're circulating to a hundred thousand of their membership in er , it 's a real mis-match of counties , Warwickshire , Northamptonshire , Leicestershire , Notts , Lincolnshire right , and er we 've got our logo on the back er , because I checked the er you know checked the content of it , and it did n't put too much onus on police setting up schemes and what not , but the N F U are delivering one of these leaflets in the next week or two to every one of their members in er that particular area , so no doubt we 'll be getting some er contact with it . |
| 23 | The revolution of thought which took place in France in the 1960s , with the work of Barthes , Foucault , Kristeva , Derrida and Lacan , has transformed our perception of the subject , the teaching of both language and literature , and we realise that the varieties of English teaching reflect a variety of ideological assumptions . |
| 24 | We had talked our way past the immigration officials in Jakarta , flown to Makassar , and checked into the rotting , former colonial splendour of the only hotel on the waterfront . |
| 25 | Our prime task is to capture or destroy Edward Balliol , who has sold our realm to the English . |
| 26 | The new ‘ social history ’ has challenged our ignorance of the subject . |
| 27 | The introduction of a simple and rapid surface microspreading technique for the visualization of the synaptonemal complex at meiotic prophase in insect spermatocytes ( 36 ) has revolutionized our understanding of the behaviour of chromosomes during this important stage of meiosis . |
| 28 | He said : ‘ We have driven our economy into the sand . |
| 29 | Simultaneously the sexual radical movements of the 1970s have undermined our preconception of the ‘ naturalness ’ and inevitability of contemporary gender roles and sexual attitudes . |
| 30 | We used the common field maple ( Acer campestre ) to replace a line of dead elms that formerly marked our boundary with the lane . |