Example sentences of "[vb past] our own [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We extracted light-curves from archival data using the Exosat data-base system on the Leicester University Starlink node , and used our own techniques to estimate the power spectrum and fit models . |
| 2 | ‘ We listened to the song and drew our own conclusions , but it did n't matter what it meant , ’ Nicholson recalled , ‘ because everyone was so stoned they could n't remember the words . |
| 3 | We did 0–60mph in 5secs in the Rocket … drove a Volvo we loved … lived with a Ferrari for a month … built our own Caterham 7 … took a Lamborghini Diablo down a German autobahn at 201.4mph — and test the new Ford Escort , and liked it . |
| 4 | and we built our hou , not , bought the plot of land and built our own house on it . |
| 5 | So then I got back on to Gwyllam and said that if we provided our own caravan , would you someone there be willing to do the from site to site and he said that would n't be a problem . |
| 6 | Before implementing such change in our practice , we reviewed our own experience and assessed the likely impact of that change and I 'll present that experience today . |
| 7 | What happened was that we began to do all kinds of things that are normally done to support a tour that you farm out , but we used to do it in-house , so we had our own publicity department , our own travel department — we booked our own flights and our own hotels , we did n't use a travel agency . |
| 8 | We 've consulted the leading names in the motor industry and racked our own brains to come up with the definitive answer to one of the ultimate pub arguments . |
| 9 | The sun seared down on us through the thin air , and when we slowed and turned our own cloud of dust enveloped us . |
| 10 | As their distinguished captain and lock Kevin Swords ( 30 caps ) said afterwards : ‘ This is a very important game and the fact that we all paid our own way is a statement of how much the fixture means to us ’ . |
| 11 | We improvised our own performances and took turns at conducting as well . |
| 12 | Miss Denice Lewis , the American poule de luxe , has been shedding light on her fellow compatriot , Mr Steven Wyatt , the ‘ wealthy oil trader ’ who kindly befriended our own Duchess of York . |
| 13 | ‘ Germany , ’ he said , ‘ has been the spiritus agens of the whole development of Middle-Europe — from Hitler to the collapse of the Berlin Wall , which encouraged and prompted our own transformation . |
| 14 | ‘ We lost our own voice , but now we 've regained it , ’ says one of the teachers . |
| 15 | So early on we recorded our own life stories and our own reflections on the personal experience of getting older : at around thirty , around forty , and around fifty . |
| 16 | Part of the critic 's task in the nineteenth century , as now , was to interpret art for the lay public ; but what , artists asked themselves , if we interpreted our own work ? from such a thought sprang statements of artistic aims and manifestos , some using the new device of naming a group with a progressive title , such as futurism . |
| 17 | We established our own club in the Sports Council headquarters at Marlow . |
| 18 | Mother and I were much happier when we acquired our own machine and we could get on with it together . |
| 19 | We took our own sandwiches for lunch and a teacher would boil a kettle so we could make tea or cocoa for ourselves . |
| 20 | I think if you went and saw our own doctors a lot of our fears would be allayed because most of the young doctors would n't , would recommend to you , my own doctor asked me all the questions and different things and then he says he 's a young doctor , he says if I were a women and if I 'd answered all the questions as you did , I would go on H R T. |
| 21 | It is unlikely that any of us could remember the first time we saw our own reflection ( mirrors often form part of toys aimed at very small babies , such as activity mats or cot toys , and there are , of course , lakes , kettles and other possibilities for reflection ) ; what is likely is that it was a member of our family ( probably our mother ) who told us : ‘ That 's you , that 's what you look like ’ . |
| 22 | We pooled our knowledge and resources and formed our own company . |
| 23 | But because he knew that I and my group would be careful he happily let me use his basic materials — boards , palettes , etc. — and we brought our own paints and dyes and drawing materials . |
| 24 | We brought our own dinner . |
| 25 | In my day well every man had an allowance er and we bought our own provisions but every man er they were supposed to be by the commissioners but you got I think seven and six pence a day each man got seven and six pence and we clubbed that money together and bought our provisions er like that . |
| 26 | In its place we hoisted our own flag . |
| 27 | So And then of course we had our own thrashing mill and we did our own thrashing but it was great fun down the glen when they got the thrashing mill in . |
| 28 | Clearance came at 10 am which made it difficult to get to Bangkok before dark , so we carried our own fuel to make sure we could continue from Rangoon . |
| 29 | We sang all the most common songs and our Christmas carol of our own , which we wrote the words to and illustrated our own booklet to give out to people . |
| 30 | Even President George Bush told his team not to come back to the USA if they failed to win back the Cup while one British tabloid quoted our own Peter Alliss on how the matches have moved away from the original concept of GB v USA and goodwill through golf . |