Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] [prep] our " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had seen and sensed them on our way up , their tentative postures , their unanimity of hesitation . |
| 2 | In a letter to Dr Bennett in Sydney from the ‘ Upper part of the Torrens ’ on 23 June 1839 , Gould remarked , ‘ Capt. Sturt has just joined me on our way to the Murray … |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I 'm afraid you have n't caught us at our best . |
| 5 | Burke , said Patten , had reminded us of our duties as trustees for the nation , of its traditions , its values and its riches . |
| 6 | That activity occupied us between our starting date ( 1968 ) and 1971 , when the launching of Language Studies as an academic department marked the beginning of a second stage . |
| 7 | Zara is relatively unknown outside Ulster so we have featured her in our Second Set series elsewhere in this issue . |
| 8 | ‘ You should have seen her as our maid ! |
| 9 | Although there was a loud banging noise , it had been so regular that both of us had incorporated it into our dreams . |
| 10 | Myself and my family have never seen it in our travels , bridges or or pelican crossings or subways would be provided instead . |
| 11 | I 've never seen one , no , except in the book , I have n't seen it in our , in our , in both books . |
| 12 | So I suppose one could say that you 've seen us at our worst , and anything else can only be an improvement . ’ |
| 13 | Surprisingly , comic books throughout their history have contained a significant number of references to chemical facts — indeed , we have used them in our teaching on the history of chemistry . |
| 14 | I 'm not bothered about them you 've got tre you can go in the countryside and see that you 've got trees at well a lot of us have got them outside our own houses . |
| 15 | Well , first of all we told the people at the earliest opportunity we told the church members what we 've learnt told them about our of the advantages and our enthusiasm and commitment to the process . |
| 16 | I called in , yeah because I said to Barry I said here I said you di , you had n't told me about our Trevor |
| 17 | er if it 's in the hall er we 've got it in our hall and you just plug in and set it on and then if anybody opens a window , the alarm bell goes off . |
| 18 | But now that the human misery of the transition is over and forgotten , and now that we see modern Peterborough , we may perhaps be grateful to the Cecils for the feudal obstinacy which kept their town from growing , and preserved it for our pleasure today . |
| 19 | We have invited them into our lives as our teachers . |
| 20 | The starter called us to our marks . |
| 21 | The starter called us to our marks , we got set , the gun went off and I dawdled on the blocks . |
| 22 | He objected ( and Locke would have agreed ) , that since truths such as that any number is even or odd are quite obvious and self-evident , it would be pointless for God to have imprinted them on our minds . |
| 23 | Having been drawn into the awareness , having re-experienced it in our bodies , we can then stand outside it and see what its meaning is for us . |
| 24 | I also made a documentary about the U-boat campaign which in two world wars had nearly brought us to our knees ; and I have always regretted that after the last war , when we sank so many of them in deep water , we did not keep one as a trophy and bring it up the Thames into the heart of London : it would have been a perennial attraction for every schoolboy in the country . |
| 25 | The preliminary cleaning of the painting in 1984 aroused a good deal of adverse criticism but , as Felipe Garin , the Prado 's director , recently commented : ‘ In the end the passage of time and the approval of the general public have brought us to our senses ’ |
| 26 | Perhaps , he thinks , this has finally brought us to our senses . |
| 27 | Our friends told him that they were sure nobody had followed them since our last meeting . |
| 28 | They diverged to different parts of an ancestor 's chromosomes , and we have each inherited them on our different chromosomes . |
| 29 | In other words , we have innate feelings of guilt , about er , parricide and murder because we 've inherited them from our ancestors in the distant past . |
| 30 | She 's asked you about our — arrangement , then ? ’ |