Example sentences of "our [noun] [vb past] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Special Branch man could n't believe his eyes as all our clobber went into the plane at Elstree . |
| 2 | We discover this when we try to walk towards the cliffs , our progress hindered by the occasional disappearing foot and accompanying staccato shout of Shit ! |
| 3 | Only their opening wish is new : ‘ Would that we had died when our brethren died before the Lord ! ’ |
| 4 | and our heart leaped to the spark , one fell |
| 5 | Our discussions ranged through the whole spectrum of life , from the sublime to the trivial , and while I do not now remember many of the conclusions that we reached then , the quality of that communication is still with me . |
| 6 | We stood in the doorway for a while until our eyes adjusted to the darkness and then , stooping low to avoid the worst of the smoke , we made our way through the crowd to a space that had been cleared for us close to the fire . |
| 7 | Our teenagers laughed at the suggestion that maybe dad could help . |
| 8 | After several weeks of hard work by Ken and Paul Lucas , Tim and Steve Wallace and Richard Newcombe , our museum opened to the public on 18th July 1992 . |
| 9 | Mr Chairman , the traffic problem has been with us for many years as our village existed before the motor car . |
| 10 | John said he 's going to get you one of those T-shirts , I get one anyway if you wan na try sit there all morning after yesterday , you think our Jeanie went to the court ? |
| 11 | A lot of our joy came from the growth and development of our students . " |
| 12 | Perhaps our wine fell into the hands of looters , though we were on the Pakistani side and Muslims are n't supposed to touch alcohol . ’ |
| 13 | Our nightgowns lay on the floor where you fell to your knees |
| 14 | Our problems started on the first pitch . |
| 15 | Every muscle in our bodies ached under the strain . |
| 16 | It was almost as if the Israelis were saying ‘ if you think the Palestinians are suffering , see how more than six million of our people died at the hands of the Nazis ’ . |
| 17 | The steward closed the door behind him and our shadows danced against the wall as we stood transfixed looking at the coffin lid , half-expecting it to be pushed aside and the corpse to rise and step out . |
| 18 | So when our Lord spoke about the Kingdom of Heaven being at hand , he was referring to its being qualitatively present . |
| 19 | As his eyes began to focus , Our Father took in the vast emptiness before him . |
| 20 | When he had recovered , Our Father squeezed through the cleft into the cave . |
| 21 | Finally , on a bright sunny morning , our train chugged along the wide expanse of the Fraser River and Vancouver Inlet to that great city itself . |
| 22 | yeah , we 've lost an enormous amount of staff probably a third of our staff disappeared in the last twelve months , and I think y you we must recognise it 's bound to make an impact and here we are sitting here feeling a bit shell shocked and that 's no doubt one of the contributory factors . |
| 23 | ‘ That weakness in our game showed against the Swedes . |
| 24 | Most of our players came from the leagues and clubs . |
| 25 | If it is correct that our trilobite lived above the sea bottom , actively swimming in the water , there are certain predictions we can make about its geological occurrence which can be tested by looking in the rocks . |
| 26 | We became ‘ best friends ’ as schoolgirls do , pushing our babies to the park together on fine afternoons and on wet ones , sitting in each other 's flats drinking whisky — how we afforded it I can not now imagine — while our babies played behind the sofa . |
| 27 | We had a cost of living bonus and er our wages rose with the cost of living er every month , not every year . |
| 28 | And our belly-buttons shone in the dark . |
| 29 | Liz , from King 's Lynn , Norfolk , said : ‘ I am just sorry that families we know could be going through the same feelings we had when our men left for the Gulf . |
| 30 | The shadow of our plane skipped across the bright sea , then flickered over the outer coral . |