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 | 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 . |
| 5 | At one time , I used to think that living in our little villages we were safe from all the crime , but sadly , no . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In our previous studies we focused on press reporting of rapes . |
| 10 | 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 . |