Example sentences of "our [noun] [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because we offered our budget up to negotiation to both the political parties , over the last eight weeks . |
| 2 | I 've got to phone , I booked our mum up to dinner , she 's coming up . |
| 3 | ‘ I believe we suffered the downturn because of the way in which we kept our clients up to date , insofar as when the recession hit , our clients did n't need to come to us because the Revenue was on their backs . |
| 4 | If we turn our attention briefly to tobacco , much is made ( and quite rightly ) of the health risks of smoking and we are constantly reminded of the cost to the National Health Service for treating patients with smoking-related diseases . |
| 5 | The report clearly stresses the need to focus a major part of our resources on to workplace activity Nigel highlighted the complacent attitude of the enforcing authorities . |
| 6 | We want an economic revival that puts our people back to work and restores our companies , large and small , to prosperity . |
| 7 | He said : ‘ It is obvious that Kenneth Clarke intends to try to starve our members back to work . |
| 8 | Mr Chris Humphreys , London secretary of Nupe , said : ‘ It is obvious that Kenneth Clarke intends to try and starve our members back to work . |
| 9 | If we confine our calculation simply to strength as such , we get a different figure for the theoretical strength of each material . |
| 10 | Graptolites , trilobites , and dinosaurs are all extinct , and so in the examples we have considered so far there is no direct recourse to the study of living animals to help us bring our fossils back to life . |
| 11 | Psychologists believe that we hold on to certain stories because they enable us to make sense of an otherwise confusing world — that we learn through stories and see our way through to maturity with their help . |
| 12 | We cooled off on our way back to camp with a swim in a roadside lake ; a memorable day . |
| 13 | Yet he had a way of manipulating our conversations on to ground of his choosing where he spoke so admirably that only afterwards did one realize how other issues , other questions , had been delicately side-stepped . |