Example sentences of "[vb pp] our own [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clustered in the doorway of the stone hut , intent and fascinated by the spectacle before us , we had forgotten our own fighters . |
| 2 | ‘ We have made our own management team , to control and reinvest profits into the group . |
| 3 | We had made our own Garden of Eden . |
| 4 | The deal was we made our own beds and fed on board . |
| 5 | With the acquisition of in 1987 inherited a fleet of 12 bulk malt delivery vehicles — we had transferred our own fleet to a contract hire operator two years earlier . |
| 6 | They have been frequently invited to international festivals , but this will be the first time they have visited our own festival — we have been waiting patiently in a very long queue ! |
| 7 | And we gradually done our own church and things have gone on from there . |
| 8 | They 'll say , ‘ We 've done our own investigation , Chief Superintendent , and concluded there 's no link between the murder and espionage . |
| 9 | And it 's the trend which , in addition to its desire to see our juniors competing on the same surfaces as their international counterparts , has seen our own LTA encourage the court manufacturers in this country towards the cushioned acrylic type of tennis courts . |
| 10 | These have been judged from what you tell us in the holiday questionnaire and we have also used our own expertise . |
| 11 | ‘ I wish we could have used our own people to babysit Mobuto . |
| 12 | ‘ As I said to Sergei back at the hotel , I only wish we could have used our own people to babysit Mobuto . |
| 13 | ‘ If it had been called hundred and twelve we 'd have had our own lavatory . ’ |
| 14 | They contacted me rather than the police , and we 've had our own doctor patch him up . " |
| 15 | The Met say the system is fully committed at present , and anyway we 've got our own computer . |
| 16 | ‘ We 've got our own sub . |
| 17 | Minister of Science William Waldegrave , may have released the first major UK government White Paper on science and technology for over 10 years yesterday , but information technology professionals need n't hold their breath : while Waldegrave seems to think we should count ourselves lucky because we 've got our own research council for the first time , it would be more truthful to say we 've been stuffed into the miscellaneous section of the Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council , along with the electronic , electrical and communications industries ; our body , together with the Particle Physics and Sciences Research Council , will replace the Science and Engineering Research Council ; as a result , we will benefit ‘ from the same building of bridges between research bodies and industry ’ as the rest of the reorganised bodies and should experience interaction at an earlier stage — on the Japanese and German model . |
| 18 | It 's quite big , so me and my two sisters have all got our own rooms . |
| 19 | We 've got our own Brookside . |
| 20 | We 've got our own Christmas tree to see to . |
| 21 | The major problem being , if one of our children gets out of hand , one our own children , we 've got our own ways of dealing with it . |
| 22 | Vicky pointed out that we had deposited our own jewellery in the safe in our room and that other guests had probably done the same . |
| 23 | That 's taken , i i it refers to Pagan festivals that have happened in the past , i i I mean we 've invented our own rituals as well , but based on the May Queen figure . |
| 24 | No one knows it better than you — we 've both pledged our own valuables before now to keep our archers from deserting . |
| 25 | You will see that we have followed our own advice and climbed down off the fence here . |
| 26 | Here , on an acre formerly abounding in thistles and docks , we have woven our own covert of windbreaks and fuchsia bushes and make great play of raising cabbages where cabbages — or at least , where sweetcorn , courgettes and petits pois — were hardly intended to grow . |
| 27 | ‘ Ach — I was sure he would be with you — we could have taken our own time then . |
| 28 | ‘ Have you tried our own Château La Tour Monchauzet ? |
| 29 | It blurred so much and in the blurring we have discovered our own vulnerabilities . |
| 30 | We feel that we have kept our own expenditure within very tight constraints and we have always been careful to stay within the limits of our modest budget . |