Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [prep] our [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her cheeks , which had been so white the previous evening , now had colour , and instead of sagging with exhaustion she radiated the extraordinary vitality that had so attracted me at our first meeting on the Cutty Sark . |
| 2 | As show jumper and trainer John Bunyan told me on our first lesson ( see next month 's diary ) : ‘ You have to work out the difference between ‘ Ca n't ’ and ‘ Wo n't ’ . |
| 3 | During the coming weeks , as I told you in our last programme , we are going to talk with people from outside the university who have contacts with us . |
| 4 | Zara is relatively unknown outside Ulster so we have featured her in our Second Set series elsewhere in this issue . |
| 5 | The comrades we have been teaching are very pleasant , but a bit more reticent than elsewhere — the people at Peking and Sian got round to calling us by our first names , but here it 's ‘ miss ’ and ‘ Professor ’ ( or , to give my name in Chinese ) . |
| 6 | Here the good sisters comforted us on our last journey with a manchet of bread and a cup of wine . |
| 7 | Our friends told him that they were sure nobody had followed them since our last meeting . |
| 8 | We ca n't just leave it till our next meeting cos it only is |
| 9 | She took us to our first activity which was to learn the Pax Lodge song . |
| 10 | Erm so i if you like it 's , it 's officially done because therefore they 're advertising it in our last newsletter we send to every parent |
| 11 | This provides us with our next guideline . |
| 12 | This discussion of learning provides us with our next guideline : |
| 13 | Dishes of dainty ‘ amuse gueule ’ teased us into our first course of whole baby Brittany lobster , seascented and sat upon a diminutive salad of oil-tossed green leaves — simple you might think — splendid simplicity in fact . |
| 14 | We can therefore anticipate — and this brings us to our second theme — that the answers we seek actually lie elsewhere than in a simple equation between creative and mad thought . |
| 15 | This brings us to our third point , that of geographical mobility as it affects different social groups . |
| 16 | This brings us to our last category , the encyclopedias . |