Example sentences of "[vb past] our [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the longer they dealt with it , the more aggravated our members could become on a shop floor , or that they could have additional disputes you know , on their hands , because of the fact that the dispute or the , the problem had lasted so long . |
| 2 | In spite of our scepticism , to our relief the first boat in that area to be investigated proved to match the photograph and we slunk off into the night , doused our lights , and prepared to follow her at a safe distance . |
| 3 | Whenever we went there , Salvo and I expected Hasan 's ghost to leap out of the darkness and slit our throats with his dagger . |
| 4 | We blunted our fingers counting coins in those days . |
| 5 | It is that that defeated our Tariff Reform proposal — that and that alone . |
| 6 | ‘ We did not know it at the time but the torch we lit in Britain , which transformed our country — the torch of freedom that is now the symbol of our party — became a beacon that has shed its light across the Iron Curtain into the East . |
| 7 | A vaudevillian menace charged our journey to Rome , the locomotive black and chimerical , and the Stazione Termini like an anti-cathedral with its soot-stained glass and vaultlike coldness and smell of earth 's crust or hell 's rafters . |
| 8 | We exclaimed our astonishment and relief , and rushed to embrace him . |
| 9 | Humbly acknowledging all our obligations to our Divine Lord , Jesus Christ , Who sustained our fathers through centuries of trial , |
| 10 | We got a free bus pass and we , we used our money to , which I 'm glad we did with my husband only having a few years . |
| 11 | No you used our address . |
| 12 | Instead we used our ponchos as makeshift tents . |
| 13 | One major pharmaceutical products company recently used our service to remove contaminated lint dust from the air conditioning ducting that served their production area . |
| 14 | okay , rightio then , well last week we used our bodies last week d' ya remember what we did ? , can you put your bag down please , take your jackets off , what do you think this is ? , come on , nobody else here in the room okay , so last week we we did if you remember , erm , now this week we 're going to do some sound tracks |
| 15 | We stopped at a shop and bought apples and beer , which we guzzled on the march , assault rifles and ammunition belts swinging round our necks as we used our hands to prise the tops off the beer bottles . |
| 16 | We did not speak their language , of course , so we used our hands and faces to show that we were hungry . |
| 17 | ‘ But we all believe that 's what will happen anyway , so I think the day reinforced our views . ’ |
| 18 | ( Whispering to Clint ) I think we bluffed our way out of that one . |
| 19 | ‘ Between 150 and 200 prospective customers visited our stand on the first morning , ’ says Patrick Fitz-Gibbon , public affairs manager with Unipart , who organized the event . |
| 20 | Approximately 400 people visited our stand . |
| 21 | One to France when we visited our daughter and the other to Germany . |
| 22 | The report gave a brief summary of the afternoon when the Phoenix Dance Company visited our school . |
| 23 | The report gave a brief summary of the afternoon when the Phoenix Dance Company visited our school . |
| 24 | Visited our town , our town . |
| 25 | We visited our farming cousins and enjoyed the delights of a life so different from our own . |
| 26 | The subjects were 20 Japanese patients with gastric ulcers ( 15 men and five women , aged 49 ( 13 ) years ) who visited our hospital for gastroendoscopic examination . |
| 27 | ‘ In short , Major Maxim lured our watchers into this place and then ambushed them . |
| 28 | Then we boiled it dutifully and heated our tins on the Calor gas stove in the kitchen . |
| 29 | Unfortunately a flu bug attacked most of the crew during this week which clouded our impressions of Shetland . |
| 30 | We had no preconception of the results and analysed our data without prejudice . |