Example sentences of "in our [adj] [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we first became friends in our early teens I 'd asked her if she fancied one of the young men in the village . |
| 2 | In our Church they see bigotry ; in our homespun cloth they see provincialism ; in our wooden ploughs they see something primitive ; in our fallen bridges they see corruption . |
| 3 | Although there is in effect already a common basic curriculum in our primary schools it will help to have an agreed statement . |
| 4 | In our five years we have supported many country issues and charities . |
| 5 | If we do not turn up for work , we are likely to get the sack , but in our private worlds we can dream our lives away at home , church or play . |
| 6 | At one time , I used to think that living in our little villages we were safe from all the crime , but sadly , no . |
| 7 | We did our jobs , we fell into bed exhausted , and in our off-duty moments we got away from the camp as much as possible . |
| 8 | As examples of such projects in our three districts we would draw to your attention : |
| 9 | In our everyday lives we learn about people in many ways : the way they eat , their clothes , their scent , their movements , the way they hold themselves . |
| 10 | Given the twin facts that our economy is now heavily reliant on light industries , financial services and oil , and that in our newer industries we actually make very few of the components we assemble and distribute , we are especially vulnerable , as recent events have shown , to companies deciding to re-locate in other countries . |
| 11 | I do n't think even in our wildest dreams we managed to spend an extra five million in the first few weeks of this council , I remember a couple of million going into schools and few hundred thousand for voluntary organizations , and er , and old people 's homes . |
| 12 | Yes definitely I mean I do n't think we ever dreamt in our wildest dreams I think really it was maybe chance thing f fate or whatever you know . |
| 13 | In our Church they see bigotry ; in our homespun cloth they see provincialism ; in our wooden ploughs they see something primitive ; in our fallen bridges they see corruption . |
| 14 | In our previous studies we focused on press reporting of rapes . |
| 15 | In our own tests we found that the Grizzled Skipper with 512K RAM fitted showed little speed advantage over a Super VGA card with 1MB RAM which is commonly fitted in many high-end machines . |
| 16 | ( If you 're interested in following up the question of how we know what 's going on in our own minds you might have a look at Duncan : I Know What I Know — or Do I ? — Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society , Spring 1971 , or just possibly my contribution to the symposium on recursion in the current Analysis , though this is a little technical . ) |
| 17 | ‘ It is in our own hands we have to stop worrying what other clubs are doing . ’ |
| 18 | Given a subject , already identified , and given the wholly reasonable assumption that in our linguistic thoughts we do not equate properties with entities , there would be no conceivable point in introducing a property , and introducing it with the sense of " this completes what I am about " unless that property is to be taken as applicable to the subject . |