Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] our [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite the ragged head-dress and mud-stained face , I recognised our good Doctor Agrippa . |
| 2 | I judged our Swiss hosts to be sincere in saying that their latest equipment would be offered on a preferential basis to NATO and other friendly countries , and that it would not find its way to Argentina . |
| 3 | I turned our closed circuit cameras onto the flag-wavers and they appeared on the huge screens above the stage . |
| 4 | The splendid packed lunch arranged for me by Major Hal that morning plus the thermos of American coffee made a welcome lunch as ‘ Deemy ’ and I winged our solitary way over the continuous stretches of grasslands , lakes and rivers of Siberia to make a smooth landing at the Russian Air Force base at Irkutsk early that evening . |
| 5 | This morning I ordered our central computer here to hack into the Riyadh computer and do a check . |
| 6 | Hamilton and I spent our last night in Rome at a very respectable hotel on the Via Garibaldi , near the high walls of the prison . |
| 7 | When I submitted our first Report to Mr Baker he asked me how he should explain what was meant by Standard English to the education journalists . |
| 8 | When I established our environmental objectives in 1990 , I recognised that we had set ourselves some very demanding targets which could only be met through the continuous commitment and effort of everyone involved . |
| 9 | I knew our modern bungalow on the village outskirts overlooking the Carse was n't as grand as Andy 's mum and dad 's house , which was practically a castle and stood in its own estate : ponds , streams , statues , lochs , rivers , hills , forests , even the old railway line passing through one corner of it ; one big garden in effect and vast compared to our single acre laid to lawn and shrub . |
| 10 | Houston coach Jack Pardee said : ‘ I thought our kicking game was good until the last kick . ’ |
| 11 | I thought our social services people did that if they run that why should they direct people away from their own livelihoods . |
| 12 | And I remembered our faithful Christians — Burmese , Karen , Chin and others — left on their own , with the certainty of being suspected as friends of the British and Americans , their hearts heavy with fear about our safety . |
| 13 | And I remembered our last day together when I 'd promised to bring you to the Peacock theatre and robbed you of your heart 's desire by forcing you into my bed instead . |
| 14 | I remembered our last days in my hotel room , their fevered , unhappy intensity , with the already-hot Spanish sun blazing down outside the shutters . |
| 15 | He looked infuriatingly cool , unmoved by her imperfectly concealed annoyance , as he answered , ‘ I preferred our second meeting to be a surprise . ’ |
| 16 | That morning my wife and I said our usual goodbyes . |
| 17 | If I had our impromptu interview would have been quickly and suddenly over . |
| 18 | I wished our teenage children had been with us , they would have revelled in all the water sports , in the bay . |
| 19 | Firstly HILDA LODGE whom you met before when she became our Vice Chairman in 1981 has now changed her hat to become the Chairman and she is already busy in her new role , well supported by the Executive Committee which now has four new members following the elections of earlier this year — so please meet : — |
| 20 | Thereafter we eagerly obtained the precious four novels of the canon and she became our favourite writer . |
| 21 | " I hope that you found our New Year ceremony of some interest . " |
| 22 | I 'm glad you found our first Top to Tail so useful . |
| 23 | I look upon it as an act of spite by Durham County Council ‘ You stopped our inner ring road scheme . |
| 24 | Erm you received our corporate brochure and you got a certain amount of information from er from Norman on the phone . |
| 25 | And if you thought our away form was bad last year … |
| 26 | she had our blue suite , such as it was , but she was going to come right flat on her back got his bedroom ready , for Ian all that , cos they do . |
| 27 | She accepted our brief presence with disinterested dignity — as if she herself were now as symbolically dead as her husband was still symbolically alive . |
| 28 | We met our new lecturer Mr H.B. Acton of the London School of Economics who was to lecture in Social Philosophy . |
| 29 | I wrote and said that a lot of members our pension , we could n't afford it , and that we owned our own hall so therefore we had a lot of cost to keep it in good repair and why was it nine pound . |
| 30 | Legs rose and fell as we made our undulatory way like a giant centipede . |