Example sentences of "our [noun sg] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally we were allowed to shuffle in , pair by pair , with the other animals , paid our money at the one-person-only box-office , and spent the remains on hot snacks from the kiosk to bring the blood back to our frozen digits . |
| 2 | The restructuring has not only provided the opportunity to gather the best of our expertise at the new centres and better serve our clients through local offices but will also provide for much greater efficiency and make us better placed to meet the ever changing demands of the 90s . |
| 3 | Among the best places to look for guidance are the relevant manuals themselves ( see our Booklist at the end of this book ) . |
| 4 | Imagine our horror at the thought that we might now be held legally responsible for the tragic results of an inadequate diet . |
| 5 | Our experience at the Royal National Throat , Nose , and Ear Hospital over the past two years in a study of over 200 children aged 3–8 years with chronic ( more than six months ) or recurrent ( more than three episodes ) glue ear is that a high proportion ( over 80% ) have allergic rhinitis and that treatment of this is associated with resolution of the secretory otitis media in most cases . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | → 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Well we complete our look at the weekend 's First Division action with brief highlights of this afternoon 's Milwall versus Middlesbrough game . |
| 11 | Weathering is therefore an appropriate place to begin our look at the operation and effects of exogenic geomorphic processes . |
| 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 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 15 | Abseiling back down I notice that Katie , my wife , is traversing towards our gear at the base of the crag . |
| 16 | When we made our entrance at the church hall everybody stared . |
| 17 | At our interview at the Royal Overseas League she was about to leave for a pit-stop author 's tour , with an immensely heavy bag containing a laptop computer on which she fires off requests and thank-you letters : to American Secretary of State James Baker for his introduction to President Mobutu , to the King of Spain for agreeing to host a fundraising dinner for a chimp sanctuary in Spain . |
| 18 | Over 44 months 157 patients ( 96 boys ) who had suffered one or more events out of hospital and received mouth to mouth resuscitation were referred for clinical management to our department at the Royal Brompton Hospital . |
| 19 | Just what form this ‘ glorious revolution ’ will take is beyond our ken at the moment . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | May I express our disappointment at the last minute postponement of the carefully planned visit of Anne-Marie de Jonghe to Wales . |
| 24 | PALMERS Green Group and the Working Group for Children would like to thank all of you who supported our benefit at the 100 Club , Oxford Street , on 22 September . |
| 25 | Our laughter at the fall of birds becomes rotten in our mouths , and dies in our throats . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Did it exploit the clashing elements of land and water , feeding on our anxiety at the concept of amphibianism ? |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | This team came into being to fulfil a need in the Society for a means of showing our work at the very best level ; a group of performers who practise regularly together and have the facility to form up in teams of varying number according to the need at the time . |
| 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 ) . |