Example sentences of "i [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 . |