Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] our [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , folks , we may not have heard our favourite songbird sing for the last couple of weeks , but it 's certainly nice to know our very own Rory can still put on one hell of a floorshow ! ’ |
| 2 | Since handling of tools and weapons requires precise manipulation of the fingers and thumb , a dextral bias in hand preference for wielding these implements might have predisposed our earliest ancestors towards the use of the right hand for gestural communication . |
| 3 | ‘ I wish we could have used our own people to babysit Mobuto . |
| 4 | ‘ As I said to Sergei back at the hotel , I only wish we could have used our own people to babysit Mobuto . |
| 5 | ‘ If it had been called hundred and twelve we 'd have had our own lavatory . ’ |
| 6 | It might be helpful to look back and see what might have caused our present ills — the ‘ British sickness ’ as it is called abroad . |
| 7 | ‘ Ach — I was sure he would be with you — we could have taken our own time then . |
| 8 | But in those general objectives , we then set ourselves the top ten , top ten objectives and how we are going to actually action those objectives er to er move forward and if they were achieved , we thought if we achieved those ten objectives and that 's going to take time and as I say it 's a dynamic plan , it 's going to take two , three years to achieve and if we achieve those objectives then we will have achieved our own rule er our overall mission . |
| 9 | 1991 in many respects has been one of the toughest years in Hygiene but despite that we will have achieved our budgeted target and increased our profit by 40% over 1990 — a truly excellent performance ! |