Example sentences of "our [noun pl] [vb past] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only their opening wish is new : ‘ Would that we had died when our brethren died before the Lord ! ’ |
| 2 | We stood in the doorway for a while until our eyes adjusted to the darkness and then , stooping low to avoid the worst of the smoke , we made our way through the crowd to a space that had been cleared for us close to the fire . |
| 3 | Our teenagers laughed at the suggestion that maybe dad could help . |
| 4 | Our nightgowns lay on the floor where you fell to your knees |
| 5 | Every muscle in our bodies ached under the strain . |
| 6 | The steward closed the door behind him and our shadows danced against the wall as we stood transfixed looking at the coffin lid , half-expecting it to be pushed aside and the corpse to rise and step out . |
| 7 | Most of our players came from the leagues and clubs . |
| 8 | We became ‘ best friends ’ as schoolgirls do , pushing our babies to the park together on fine afternoons and on wet ones , sitting in each other 's flats drinking whisky — how we afforded it I can not now imagine — while our babies played behind the sofa . |
| 9 | We had a cost of living bonus and er our wages rose with the cost of living er every month , not every year . |
| 10 | And our belly-buttons shone in the dark . |
| 11 | Liz , from King 's Lynn , Norfolk , said : ‘ I am just sorry that families we know could be going through the same feelings we had when our men left for the Gulf . |
| 12 | The visions which our ancestors saw with the mind 's eye , must be embodied for us in palpable form … all must be made palpable to sight , no less than to feeling . ’ |
| 13 | That was not the way that our ancestors looked at the matter . |
| 14 | ‘ The day that our papers went before the panel and we heard that everything was OK , Anna walked into the room , and for the first time she said ‘ I love you . ’ |
| 15 | Look at the words of the hymns , glance at the dates and link them in with the theories we have discussed , and I can promise you that it will all make a little more sense and make it even more evident how our hymn-writers wrestled with the meaning of the cross . |