Example sentences of "our [noun] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Spent day boating on lake in Champex annoying local fishermen with our attempts at the world speed record for pedal boats . |
| 2 | Among the best places to look for guidance are the relevant manuals themselves ( see our Booklist at the end of this book ) . |
| 3 | Imagine our horror at the thought that we might now be held legally responsible for the tragic results of an inadequate diet . |
| 4 | Things have now finally reached the point which our Führer at the outbreak of this struggle prophesied to world Jewry in his great speech : ‘ … should Jewry once more succeed in again plunging the nations into a new world war , it would be the end of that race , and not ours . ’ |
| 5 | A study of the assault made on our plans at the time reveals a number of points that were put forward as incontrovertible arguments against what we were proposing . |
| 6 | We seem to spend the whole of our adolescence at the mercy of our erectile tissues , bending and buckling to the whim of our most troublesome organ . |
| 7 | We pay all our accounts at the end of the month . |
| 8 | Weathering is therefore an appropriate place to begin our look at the operation and effects of exogenic geomorphic processes . |
| 9 | Well we complete our look at the weekend 's First Division action with brief highlights of this afternoon 's Milwall versus Middlesbrough game . |
| 10 | In the case of managing risk , as the first part of our look at the subject ( see page 34 ) makes clear , it means not only protecting the workforce from hazards but actively using its unique knowledge of the organisation to map them out . |
| 11 | → I do n't think that our look at the Carlton Combo was anything other than a fair , unbiased review of a new product which just happens to incorporate a different technology along the way . |
| 12 | You try selling pasties in the market — something we always did to supplement our income at the mine — but it 's impossible . |
| 13 | Our selective emphasis upon locating our research at the grassroots or folk level , for whatever reasons , has perhaps led us to overemphasise our villagers ' stereotypical views of society for the sake of analytical convenience , to divide the world into fixed categories of ‘ us ’ and ‘ them ’ . |
| 14 | And we 're up to our eyes at the garage just now . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Our football at the moment , ’ as one sage put it , ‘ is like our economy — failing to keep pace with changing conditions in the society around it . ’ |
| 16 | Abseiling back down I notice that Katie , my wife , is traversing towards our gear at the base of the crag . |
| 17 | I am still amazed that , despite our losses at the time — and they would worsen until well into 1942 — some would survive what I called my " trough of despair " . |
| 18 | When we made our entrance at the church hall everybody stared . |
| 19 | So we handed in our trays at the kitchen hatch and left . |
| 20 | Just what form this ‘ glorious revolution ’ will take is beyond our ken at the moment . |
| 21 | And how we coped with the return to our homes at the end of a day or a trip away . |
| 22 | From everything she says , it 's clear this gilgul 's been on the scene for quite a while — there is no way she could have learned what she 's learned , cleaned up her act and become who she is now if the only time she 's had to do it in was the brief interval between our confrontation at the Mephistco stand and her appearance on the beach at Bournemouth . |
| 23 | With all the uncertainty and anxiety in our industry at the moment , it 's good to see that we 've not forgotten the needs of African farmers who anxieties are often far more acute than our own . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | We have a tea lady on our books at the moment who had to leave the hospital where she was working because of present retirement rules . |
| 26 | Our laughter at the fall of birds becomes rotten in our mouths , and dies in our throats . |
| 27 | You published last week an account of our ordeal at the hands of burglars who left us barricaded for 37 hours in a tiny bathroom . |
| 28 | Thank you very much Mr President and as you 've been friendly enough to invite me and given me such a friendly welcome , I , I thought I ought to risk speaking to you as candidly as I can about what is going on in our country and our communities at the moment and whether by the end of the thing I continue your friend is another matter . |
| 29 | Did it exploit the clashing elements of land and water , feeding on our anxiety at the concept of amphibianism ? |
| 30 | His job is to look after us both as regards our work at the Institute as well as on recreational trips , and he does his best , although his English is perhaps not as good as it could be ( at least he sometimes does n't seem to understand what we say ) . |