Example sentences of "our [noun sg] [was/were] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our cottage was at the end of a fisherman 's row , brightly painted , and owned by Mr Jake Nisbet . |
| 2 | Let me indicate the European Community declaration of 13 November , of which our support was at the forefront . |
| 3 | Our bedroom was at the top of a winding staircase and afforded views of the square outside . |
| 4 | Our carriage was at the front of the train so that when she got out she was right at the end of the platform beyond the canopy with its wooden fretwork coping , in the middle of fields . |
| 5 | ‘ I liked him ’ , one daughter summed up a grandfather who had been orphaned in the Irish potato famine : ‘ he was an old man , and I was only nine when he died , but as our father was at the [ First World ] War , I suppose he was the only man in the house . |