Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] our [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do n't think I 'm our favourite guard detail commander , right now . ’ |
| 2 | You are our dear Führer , but for God 's sake keep your hands off , do n't undertake the campaign . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I see you 're our new cabin-boy . |
| 4 | ‘ Here is Mr Bailey 's version : ‘ Oh Marjie , we always read your column Marjie , For Forty years , you 're our favourite Agony Aunt , You 've given thousands good advice , that 's what we want , Oh Marjie , long may your column greet our eyes each waking day , Count your job a task well done , now go out and have some fun . |
| 5 | You 're our lucky charm . ’ |
| 6 | ( seated , has completed 22 years service — could she be our longest serving secretary ? ) |
| 7 | It helps us to know in advance your prize preference should you be our lucky winner . |
| 8 | It helps us to know in advance your prize preference should you be our lucky winner . |
| 9 | At the moment she 's our only hope . ’ |
| 10 | She 's our brightest hope for the Bursary Comp . ’ |
| 11 | She 's our own flesh and blood whatever she 's done . ’ |
| 12 | The insight that we are what we keep secret about ourselves works out here to mean that we are our guilty secrets . |
| 13 | We are our own men , he had said . |
| 14 | We are our own illusionist and scenarist and we have the whole of life to produce the show of shows . |
| 15 | ‘ We 're our own country . |
| 16 | Now there 's no way I 'm gon na talk to tha he they are our major client . |
| 17 | They are our special guests . ’ |
| 18 | That could , that needs to be maintained , it could also be extended , though of course they have great difficulties because of er their , their own financial restrictions , but we also , I think as a community , need to think about who these homeless people are , and , and not to regard them as some kind of alien population , but to realise that there are , they are our own neighbours , they are our own families that are in this predicament , and that collectively we need to join together and actually make demands on central government and locally to try and do something about it . |
| 19 | That could , that needs to be maintained , it could also be extended , though of course they have great difficulties because of er their , their own financial restrictions , but we also , I think as a community , need to think about who these homeless people are , and , and not to regard them as some kind of alien population , but to realise that there are , they are our own neighbours , they are our own families that are in this predicament , and that collectively we need to join together and actually make demands on central government and locally to try and do something about it . |
| 20 | They are our mystical heritage and history of the sublime . |
| 21 | They are our human instincts , parts of the beings we are . |
| 22 | Th they 're our largest exporter er there 's inter-company sales which would gen can generate quite useful profits since they get sold on both of er Penguin companies er and Longman of course has a high content of erm er of er non-U K sales and Addison Wesley also er I mean Camco was the most international , but it 's erm not er it 's not an exporter in sterling denominated terms . |
| 23 | If Mr Capstick or Mr Pool want a key — they 're our two churchwardens — they come to the Vicarage . |
| 24 | They 're our only family now — he has only brought us shame . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ They 're our biggest competitor , ’ Virginia pointed out , unnecessarily . |
| 26 | Christie … of course and two more Redgrave and Pinsent the Olympic rowers who this week started their build up for the next games … yes … in four years time … they 're our special guests in this week 's Friday Feature |
| 27 | But the point was , they were our own rules . |
| 28 | Against him is our old friend , fear of Kinnock . |
| 29 | We are equally thankful for our no less indispensable friends from the private sector , whether they be our Principal Benefactors or those who choose to support a particular event they fancy . |
| 30 | Will he be our new leader ? |