Example sentences of "[pron] of our [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ As you know a little while ago there were discussions between this Office and Stephenson Harwood [ the applicant 's former solicitors ] about a proposed interview to be conducted under the terms of section 2 of the Criminal Justice Act 1987 and I promised to provide further details to them of our proposed course of action which is now given to you instead of them : ( 1 ) This Office intends to hold an interview with you under section 2 on Thursday , 13 June 1991 . |
| 2 | We told her nothing of our horrible experience . |
| 3 | More often she reminds me of our paternal grandmother , plump , practical and down to earth , ruling her household and large family with a shrewd capacity for command , always in an overall , her hair never tidy , her arms often covered in flour , talkative and affectionate . |
| 4 | This reminded me of our own village , where in the summer holidays the regular players on the bowling-green , mostly older citizens , are teaching the children to play . |
| 5 | ‘ They are a very good side , and remind me of our old Liverpool team in that they could sit back and hit you on the break , ’ he said . |
| 6 | We 've got no way of knowing which of our sexual partners may have HIV infection . |
| 7 | If he is unlucky , then there will be a battle at sea , and the best he can hope for is that none of our sea-borne army manages to make a landing . |
| 8 | Above and bottom left : These Long-finned Koi were pictured in the USA , where they seem to have a taste for the more exotic coldwater fish and none of our traditional fears about ‘ breaking the rules ’ . |
| 9 | None of our Continental neighbours drinks less wine per capita . |
| 10 | She continued to look extremely doubtful even when Peregrine told the bystanders that it was none of our damn business what happened in Eastern Europe . |
| 11 | Unfortunately , in this country at least , they have an undeserved bad reputation as none of our native spiders are poisonous . |
| 12 | ‘ None of our intensive care beds have ever been cut . |
| 13 | Even so , there is a note of baleful realism in his injunction that : none of our own sons should in any circumstances cause any [ of our grandsons ] accused before him to be put to death , or corporally mutilated or blinded or tonsured against his will , without lawful trial and inquiry . |
| 14 | At the airport we bought a sheet of tourist slides ( the Changing of the Guard at Buckingham Palace , the Forth Bridge , the pearly kings and queens of London , the Apollo moon landing , etc. ) to show the Indonesians something of our bizarre world . |
| 15 | ‘ I do hope you 'll find time to see something of our beautiful city . |
| 16 | We , the living , may glimpse something of our common origin when we witness the death of another . |
| 17 | France is not the only one of our European partners ( for ‘ partners ’ , says Robertson , read ‘ competitors ’ ) to have a hidden agenda for extracting nationalistic advantage from federalism . |
| 18 | Quick as a flash one of our older officers answered " the breast stroke , I think . |
| 19 | Does the , but we do n't keep a list , do we , of whose of our own staff is in the building |
| 20 | Bishop Harris assures him of our loyal support |
| 21 | He brings with him a wealth of experience and for our part , we assure him of our loyal support ’ . |
| 22 | I assure him of our full support for action to stop the hypocrisy of exporting calves for veal production in other countries . |
| 23 | As with the linguistic theories of how we understand ‘ bar ’ , we may have theories or models or whatever of our own walking but they may be wildly false . |
| 24 | What of our second question , which allowed a vote for any firm ? |
| 25 | However , we must ask , what of our Euro M P's ? |
| 26 | Rather than reinventing the ‘ virtual classroom ’ , may I suggest the staff at Teesside Poly could have contacted CECOMM and availed themselves of our tutor-moderated training programme , and in the process saved themselves considerable time and angst . |
| 27 | ‘ Lots of our best workers are what you might call otaku , ’ says an ASCII spokesman . |
| 28 | Making lots of our own books . |
| 29 | Photographer Sandra Lousada , who produces lots of our favourite pictures , took so many gorgeous shots that we were spoilt for choice . |
| 30 | Strip us of our protective coverings and we are sartorially lost . |