Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] our [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fireman Mister Dean became our best friend , and Mum 's especially . |
| 2 | When they quit the market and ICI became our main supplier , the relationship took time to bed down but ICI 's performance now is excellent . ’ |
| 3 | On its first survey orbits , IRAS scanned our nearest galaxy , the Large Magellanic Cloud . |
| 4 | ‘ Rubbish ’ is how Ron Dennis described our recent report that Ayrton Senna had demanded a personal motorhome and other perks from McLaren in 1991 . |
| 5 | A blind descent of the mountain 's south face in the dark seemed our only option . |
| 6 | Huge waves crashed down on to us , and the wind drove our helpless ship eastwards into the Pacific Ocean . |
| 7 | Our peers included our recent colleagues of yesterday in uniform and in the CID , but also took in the professor of psychiatry , the Home Office Drugs Branch official , the NHS executive , the sociologist , and the media hack . |
| 8 | Writing in 1783 , long before social anthropology had assumed any coherent shape or even possessed a name , the eighteenth-century French social philosopher , J. J. Rousseau proclaimed our guiding assumption : ‘ One needs to look near at hand if one wants to study men : but to study man one must learn to look from afar : one must first observe differences in order to discover attributes . ’ |
| 9 | And when the report was published , the Committee adopted our central recommendation — which went further than virtually everyone else who gave evidence — that the National Land Fund should be reconstituted under independent trustees . |
| 10 | MARK ‘ HE SLIMED ME ’ CASWELL tracked our sluggy hero to his lair for the full slippery story . |
| 11 | Under a window lay our newborn son |
| 12 | The news came at the same time as Personal Computer World 's first annual awards — where the judges voted our 486-based PC the Best Power-User System ( see page 7 ) . |
| 13 | A judge said our youngest competitor 's plot ‘ would be a credit to any seasoned allotmenteer . ’ |
| 14 | Meanwhile , our scintillating issue left our British rivals for dead . |
| 15 | That is until we stopped for a toilet break in a lay-by , when the howling gale and torrential rain lashed our naked bottoms like a Cabinet minister in a Soho sauna , and made me glad to be back in the car beside the sleeping-bags . |
| 16 | Unfortunately heavy monsoon rain caused our first game to be abandoned against Singapore CC Sunday XI — we were 87 for one off 12 overs ! |
| 17 | This knowledge made our spartan quarters even harder to bear . |
| 18 | We also appointed Heidi Gomm as our Office Administrator , while Carole Richards became our part-time Membership Secretary following the birth of her son , Thomas . |
| 19 | Readers and of Grimsby read our recent tank decor review and request for your own ideas . |
| 20 | A Hannoverian duke became our own George I. This historical link does n't mean Hannover is any more British than Buck House is German , but then nobody visits Hannover for cucumber sandwiches . |
| 21 | For more than a year Lorne and I had struggled towards this moment and , contrary to all the laws of psychology , we were finding that the realization of our dreams surpassed our wildest expectations . |
| 22 | Imagine our laughter and hilarity when the same dear friend began our next meeting by saying he wanted to share something before we began , and went on : ‘ This morning , as I was praying , the Lord gave me the gift of tongues . ’ |
| 23 | Even President George Bush told his team not to come back to the USA if they failed to win back the Cup while one British tabloid quoted our own Peter Alliss on how the matches have moved away from the original concept of GB v USA and goodwill through golf . |
| 24 | We looked across at the mountains and then at ourselves , and a smile split our dusty faces , then burst into a laugh . |
| 25 | But when we were too tired to row any more , a great wave hit our small boat , and we all fell into the sea . |
| 26 | Then , when Albert Dawes moved to Luton Town , Jack became our leading goalscorer and he topped the Palace 's scoring charts in 1936–37 and 1937–38 ; almost certainly , his most satisfying strike for us was the goal he scored in Palace 's 3–1 win at Shepherds Bush against his old club on May Day 1937 in the last match of that season . |
| 27 | Well , I hope all those supporters who complained about lack of entertainment and commitment witnessed our last home game with Northtown . |
| 28 | As we steamed into Loch Broom after an uncomfortable overnight passage through the Pentland Firth and the North Minch an amazing sight met our weary eyes . |
| 29 | In Committee , the Government rejected our fair rates proposals . |
| 30 | The cloakroom claimed our tragic rainwear |