Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] our first " in BNC.
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1 | I do n't know whether it 's the other case , I 'm hear to tell you about our first of all , which I do n't think is the other case . |
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 | We learnt a few lessons on how we could have improved it but we felt very pleased with it as our first attempt . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | ‘ I think most of us in our first tour had the impression that English conditions would be different from those in New Zealand . |
7 | She took us to our first activity which was to learn the Pax Lodge song . |
8 | 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 ) . |