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COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
by our standards (= judging by what we are used to )
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The equipment was very old-fashioned by our standards.
it is our fervent hope that formal (= used when saying that you hope very much that something will or will not happen )
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It is our fervent hope that change is coming.
my/our sympathy goes out to sb formal (= used to formally express sympathy )
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Our sympathy goes out to Peggy in her great loss.
our Beijing/Cairo/Washington etc correspondent (= sending reports from a particular place - used by a newspaper or TV station )
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This report comes direct from our Tel Aviv correspondent.
outside our control
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Flight delays do occur, for reasons that are outside our control .
put our watches forward
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We put our watches forward by 2 hours.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Our Lady
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Grace, the sacraments, the church is divine, Our Lady , the saints, etc.
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I had a vision of Our Lady .
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Perhaps by name: Our Lady .
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That this fact was well appreciated by civil and ecclesiastical authorities is illustrated by the history of Our Lady of Einsiedeln.
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Why did you say it was Our Lady we saw?
Our Lord
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As unthinkable as Peter raising his voice to Our Lord .
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In the lunettes are the apostles - figures in white and below, scenes from the Life of Our Lord .
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Wrong Our Lord himself replaces Jacobs's ladder.
in our/their midst
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Another athlete with those same qualities now toils in our midst .
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As we rushed to prepare to open the Sale there appeared in our midst an unknown young man.
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But when the others sat for the Scripture readings, Ray McGovern remained upright in their midst , provoking wariness and speculation.
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Downstairs, when Jessica had stormed out, her parents had found themselves remarkably constrained by the stranger in their midst .
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He was the weevil in the fruit, according to Rex, the canker in their midst .
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People living in Surrey Street say they are tired of an unhealthy eyesore in their midst .
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The entrepreneurial spirit is alive and working in our midst .
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They insisted that the explosive events occurring in their midst were the work of the Holy Spirit.
our fellow man/men
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It is this that prompts a deep feeling of compassion for the sub-human world and for all our fellow men.
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That is, better an unattainable ideal than a limited attainable goal when it comes to the welfare of our fellow men.
our man
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After an hour our man was still bludgeoning away.
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As our men did not wish to write-off two company cars, the youth escaped.
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In our scheme, we do not ask for the initiative of our men .
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One of our men spotted a freshly dug fighting position.
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She asked if there were no more warriors among our men .
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The fire was the most terrible enemy our men met that day.
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We hide behind our men , peeping at each other in a curious and suspicious fashion.
our man in/at sth
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He slaughtered our men in forty minutes.
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Soon, reports our man in the black wellies, all he had left were four golden orfe and a koi.
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Still there was no demoralization of our men in line.
our/their eyes meet
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Their eyes met across the crowded room.
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As the woman searched for a seat, their eyes met and held.
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As their eyes met , Quinn suddenly felt that Stillman had become invisible.
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But when our eyes meet , the invisible daggers fly.
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In between times he looked out the window or stared at me, smiling when our eyes met .
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The family could hear her swift heavy steps, up there, and did not let their eyes meet .
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Then their eyes met and it was not about money.
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When their eyes meet she envisions the fulfillment of her dream of marrying a man with aristocratic connections not from Middlemarch.
our/your friend
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Our friend with the loud voice is back.
our/your/their differences
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By looking to the Bible and seeking spiritual guidance, he is taking steps to reconcile our differences .
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Despite our differences , I had no need or desire to slam the new administration.
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If our needs conflict I am certainly ready to explore our differences and I may be prepared to compromise.
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In recent weeks the two groups had buried their differences to stage joint armed protests across the country.
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So do you think that we could put our differences aside for just one evening?
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We discussed our differences and agreed to call an armistice.
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When you are weighing up which lender to go to for your loan, you ignore their differences at your peril.
these/British/our etc shores
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Even after the Renaissance and the rebirth of learning had reached these shores ears were still having a rough ride.
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His job was to show the captains of industry who came to these shores how to relax.
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In fact, nobody had made paved roads in Britain since the Romans left our shores .
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Meanwhile, beyond our shores , the world's industrial practices and capacities advanced.
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More than six centuries ago they had left these shores for Hamgyong Province in the North in search of a better life.
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The battle was lost, though, when many in high places yielded to pressures from beyond these shores .
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The reason the world and his wife head for these shores is they know that their chances of deportation are virtually non-existent.
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What would happen to us if 10,000 of them showed up on our shores ?
with the compliments of sb/with our compliments