Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] our [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Roy Bailey made his Palace debut at the age of just 17 years , but he only became our regular goalkeeper after his spell of National Service had ended early in 1953 , and then it soon became clear that Roy was a goalkeeper of the highest quality , even though he was performing in a Palace side that was almost invariably struggling . |
| 2 | We shall not be satisfied with a theory which does less than justice to the biblical view of the nature of man , but at the same time we need to be sure that we really have grasped the biblical view , and not just read our own ideas into it . |
| 3 | ‘ With James Bond theme tunes ringing the air , we soon learnt our new motto — ‘ shimply shplendid ’ ( apologies to Sean Connery ) , ’ said Chris Wheatley . |
| 4 | It was late when we finally eased our stiff limbs into the night . |
| 5 | ‘ People just stopped coming to shop here , and , because we no longer had our two hotels , the number of visitors dropped as well . |
| 6 | The last resort was the Manchester Evening News , which finally ran our Goldfinger advert . |
| 7 | We all were introduced to our leaders and they soon explained our first task . |
| 8 | You know we just sort of like got our own stuff . |
| 9 | This is true for simple problems but , as I have said many times before , as soon as the problems become more complicated our mathematical knowledge turns out to be greatly deficient . |
| 10 | Herewith came our first culture shock . |
| 11 | Extremist ideologies have prospered with the ‘ first past the post ’ system , and deeply unsettled our post-war economy — we are bottom of the European economic league in the post-war performance , and the only nation left with an unreformed electoral system . |
| 12 | Well , by the 9th we still held our two-stroke lead , and slowly but surely the galleries got bigger and bigger . |
| 13 | We also ran our popular Youth Environment Conference , bringing together 35 sixth-form students from all parts of Wales to study a series of controversial development proposals . |
| 14 | We also had our own publishing department . |
| 15 | I was in a numbered uniform of massive symbolic importance with nuances of style which clearly defined our social identity . |
| 16 | They just about levelled our Front Line with that bombardment . ’ |
| 17 | The Monopoly and Mergers Commission ( MMC ) report in 1992 concluded that AEA 's commercial business activities now rested ‘ uneasily in the public sector ’ since this inevitably constrained our entrepreneurial activities . |
| 18 | We even made our own television commercials and our own radio commercials . |
| 19 | Mohammed simply led our 74 year old by the hand and she followed in disbelief . |
| 20 | He even forgot our tenth anniversary ! ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Nonetheless , we immediately started our other meetings to make up for lost time . |
| 23 | We even had our own bathroom , in whose tub we wallowed for well over an hour . |
| 24 | Overseas Contracting performed well due to the Kosice contract in Slovakia where we laid 118,000 tonnes of asphalt from July to November and successfully completed our first asphalt runway in Eastern Europe . |
| 25 | Perhaps John 's best game for us was the FA Cup 3rd round replay at Nottingham Forest in last January 1991 , when he provided the cross from the right wing from which Ian Wright volleyed our opener , and then scored our last-gasp equaliser , which showed considerable vision and no little technique , to catch the Forest goalkeeper off his line with a dipping , curling shot from some 45 yards ' range . |
| 26 | We swapped a few anecdotes about buffoons we had encountered and then went our separate ways , hands thrust deep into our respective double-thickness , Gortex , all-weather , storm-force shell outers . |
| 27 | First we had Sainsbury 's The Magazine , then appeared our new format Journal , and now Homebase is in action . |
| 28 | He then highlighted our tremendous service reputation — built on the abilities of the whole staff . |
| 29 | Later , squatting among our baggage and fellow travellers in the back of a jeep bound for La Paz , we silently nursed our battered pride , lost in thoughts of home . |
| 30 | It quite spoiled our little party . |