Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] our [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was untenable for us to continue to support and put energy into a political movement which in no ways respected or reflected our separate identity and struggle as Irish women . |
| 2 | After a short spell with ( Guildford City after the war , he returned to Selhurst Park in 1947 and became our assistant trainer . |
| 3 | Bateman laid on our opening goal for Whibley after only four minutes , hit the bar himself , and made our fourth goal , which was scored by Menlove , in the second half . |
| 4 | Much to my surprise she agreed , on condition that we had separate rooms and made our own travel arrangements . |
| 5 | And those of us who could drive , collected passengers and appointed our own bus conductors . |
| 6 | We played as a team and got our just deserts . ’ |
| 7 | The second ad was set in a courtroom and described our new product ‘ Balanced Banking ’ and had the message that , with our automatic transfer , customers ‘ money was always in the right place to earn more interest . |
| 8 | Nothing daunted , we fished round the loch and caught our fair share , but nothing from the fabled Pennel Point . |
| 9 | ‘ A year after we started off , we purchased some ground and built our first accident repair centre . |
| 10 | and we built our hou , not , bought the plot of land and built our own house on it . |
| 11 | We extracted light-curves from archival data using the Exosat data-base system on the Leicester University Starlink node , and used our own techniques to estimate the power spectrum and fit models . |
| 12 | One day Frankie was chopping a particularly springy orange box when suddenly the head flew off the handle and cracked our only mirror . |
| 13 | ‘ We listened to the song and drew our own conclusions , but it did n't matter what it meant , ’ Nicholson recalled , ‘ because everyone was so stoned they could n't remember the words . |
| 14 | In Hungary , the process industry looked to us for safety advice and provided our first contract in Eastern Europe . |
| 15 | We called and shouted and sailed our little boat as fast as we could . |
| 16 | Lorne was dangling over the bowsprit filming as I firmly held his legs , when he was taken off-guard by a violent lurch and dropped our wide-angle lens cap overboard . |
| 17 | They had the terms already pre-printed for us and we had agreed them and secured our new property before we even received terms from the others . ’ |
| 18 | I suddenly cottoned on to what he was up to , and I ran and fetched our short washing-line , the one my mum used for dusters and tea-cloths . |
| 19 | We 've consulted the leading names in the motor industry and racked our own brains to come up with the definitive answer to one of the ultimate pub arguments . |
| 20 | The sun seared down on us through the thin air , and when we slowed and turned our own cloud of dust enveloped us . |
| 21 | The meal itself was a pretty lightweight affair consisting of a meagre forty courses , but made tolerable by the court concubines who , whilst the great lord and I took sup , lifted our robes at intervals and fanned our privvy members with their hair . |
| 22 | Even if we rejected integrity and based our political activity only on fairness , justice , and procedural due process , we would find the first two virtues sometimes pulling in opposite directions . |
| 23 | After what seemed like ages we popped out of the cloud and confirmed our dead-reckoned position as overhead the airfield of Vila Real , where we would have landed but it had no avgas . |
| 24 | We stood beneath the trees — and heard our first chiffchaff of the year : ‘ Chiff-chaff-chiff-chaff-chiff- chiff -chaff . ‘ |
| 25 | My right hon. Friend the Earl of Caithness called in the Indonesian ambassador and expressed our grave concern . |
| 26 | The overt and crudest manifestations of Irish misogyny were our first target and we vented our rage and flexed our lesbian muscles in a myriad of dangerous and daring ways . |
| 27 | These activities were consolidated in Aberdeen and achieved our best sales yet in this market sector in the North Sea . |
| 28 | And all our actors have taken themselves off and deserted our little pageant , see ? |
| 29 | The immense dumbbell-shape drew closer , almost languidly there out a wide-focus tractor beam , and anchored our two ships together . |
| 30 | We all chose our seats and placed our weak bodies into them . |