Example sentences of "[to-vb] our [noun sg] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our prospective visitor bowed to the inevitable and wrote to us : ‘ Owing to procedure for obtaining a visa usually taking a long time it seems impossible to start our work at the date you suggested . |
| 2 | We wish to voice our dismay at the one-sided approach the article took , and note that our comments have never been requested . |
| 3 | Anyway , in order to get our interest at the start of each lesson he usually involves us in a silly game of some sort , and I still clearly remember the drama lesson when , thanks to David Smith ( alias ‘ Daz ’ ) , the ‘ warm up ’ game went horribly wrong . |
| 4 | You try selling pasties in the market — something we always did to supplement our income at the mine — but it 's impossible . |
| 5 | In more extreme manner we might wish to register our displeasure at the felling of a row of fine trees for a road-widening project by saying that they had the right to be left in peace . |
| 6 | Weathering is therefore an appropriate place to begin our look at the operation and effects of exogenic geomorphic processes . |