Example sentences of "[was/were] our [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ha the information that we 've put out so far were our second reprint of the er of the black booklet of which there 'll be twelve thousand , they are quite an expensive item and , but our feeling was that er in order to sell the thing you 've got to do it properly and er spending money does n't come easily but er er in order to market the thing er thought that was the , the way to go and we 've done other things , stickers and badges and posters and so on and so forth , the normal sort of things but we 've really tried to spread these around the country and get the message that it 's a vibrant young er interesting fun thing to be involved in for young people . |
| 2 | The overt and crudest manifestations of Irish misogyny were our first target and we vented our rage and flexed our lesbian muscles in a myriad of dangerous and daring ways . |
| 3 | He designed our famous panda logo and was our first Chairman . |
| 4 | First of all I recall that there were not too many varsity entrants in the Air Force , probably only one on each station at the time , and Leonard Cheshire was our first university entrant and viewed with considerable suspicion and a certain amount of distaste . |
| 5 | For many this was our first experience with firing live ammunition and also anti-tank weapons , and for this the disused pit of Rugby 's was used , and when some proficiency was obtained we were allowed to use the ranges at Milton near Gravesend . |
| 6 | ‘ This was our first experience of subject assessment in this department , and we were unsure what to expect . |
| 7 | The Forty Foot at Sandycove was our first port of call . |
| 8 | which had been occupied by soldiers , this was our first hut , well by then I was working for the Corporation and of course by virtue of my job with the chief architect I got this house and we were offered this house about two years later for two thousand pounds and we said oh we would n't be staying here for more than ten years in any case and we would n't be bothered to buy it , but then my husband started in business you see soon after he came back and we eventually got the shop and , of course it 's very convenient because we 're only a stone 's throw from the shop you see , so we stayed here |
| 9 | This was our first quarrel . |
| 10 | That was our first day . |
| 11 | It was our first home , and we were going to make the best of it . |
| 12 | So that was our first success when we decided that process . |
| 13 | This was our first note of encouragement and we were thankful for it , as we had come to the Island on a delicate mission and we needed support . |
| 14 | For many of us it was our first time in Northern Ireland and we were nervous about the Provos and the troubles . |
| 15 | It was our first time in the saddle and it had daughter , 11 , champing at the bit for more . |
| 16 | I feel sure that the German Luftwaffe must have looked at it especially the leaders , and saw where the Eighth Airforce hit and seeing what we did and gave them some thought and consideration , actually with our Bomb Group going in we had no fighter attacks on the way in over the target , we had flack but we did not have air opposition , then on the way back we crossed the Danish peninsula and I think of course by this time the Luftwaffe knew we were coming back that way , and they had the fighters up there and this was our first time being on this mission that we saw air to air combat with the fighters against the flying fortress and in our ammunition , in our guns there , every fifth bullet was a tracer and it was amazing to me that as the German fighters came in it looked like just a hail of tracers going out but they were able to get in there knock down a B Seventeen and leave , it seemed , unscathed untouched it almost seemed impossible to me that a fighter could go through that many bullets and escape unharmed . |
| 17 | It was our first paper money . |
| 18 | Pat Wells describes the attack : ‘ This was our first readiness at Malta and whilst sitting in the crew room were astonished to hear the air-raid sirens howling — in the U.K. we had always been airborne before the sirens sounded . |
| 19 | It was our first morning of filming and when I rode the horse I really liked him . |
| 20 | That was quite funny because it was our first Christmas down there and I was saying to the housekeeper that I I would n't mind having people come and stay and not a problem because we 've got a lovely cooker and we 're going to bring our microwave down from . |
| 21 | That was our first attempt at a field kitchen We erm when we got back to s be stood down we was told by the er umpires that was stationed there that our headquarters had been wiped out . |
| 22 | ‘ this was our first match and there were the inevitable nerves . |
| 23 | This was our second trip to the island of Svalbard , high in the Arctic Circle , and we were battened down in Camp Bell — a small and sturdy hut owned by the Norwegian government . |
| 24 | It was our second chance and we were spurred on by some great support . |
| 25 | This was our second day in Normandy and I believed we were getting used to it . |
| 26 | It was our second experience of the Easter course at the West Midlands College of Higher Education . |
| 27 | Even better was our 5th July ‘ Kiss The Queens ’ demo . |
| 28 | Since it was our last night we all celebrated and partied . |
| 29 | Scalloway was our last port of call in Shetland , from there we retraced our route but westabout , via Orkney , Stornoway and the lovely west coast of Scotland . |
| 30 | This was our last port of call . |