Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] our [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Servitors took our wet clothing and served us cups of mulled wine , followed by earthenware bowls full of a meaty soup which warmed our hands and removed the chill from our stomachs . |
| 5 | Altogether 124 of 185 authorities completed our postal questionnaire during November and early December last year . |
| 6 | One of the most recent queries highlighted our local Savacentre store as giving credits instead of cash refunds . |
| 7 | Queen Elizabeth of England was visiting Amsterdam for the William and Mary celebrations — three-hundred years of English-Dutch friendship — so us Dutch queens planned our own reception for her . |
| 8 | Some children said our hoped-for bus had gone through so Mohammed and Ali wandered off and somehow hired or hijacked a pick up truck . |
| 9 | These soldiers dogged our faltering steps . |
| 10 | those winter mornings found our Russian cars |
| 11 | These reports followed our earlier study in which we reported similar findings in animals with experimentally induced colonic inflammation . |
| 12 | Some suggest that we would all be better off if the Germans controlled our monetary policy and our economy . |