Example sentences of "to our [noun sg] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 After rehearsals , Sir calls us together And each group performs their play , But just as it comes to our turn The bell goes for the end of the day .
2 To our surprise the umpire fired him out straight away .
3 Looking to our right we recognised the Cottages with the road in front of them close to the ditch ; also our Professor 's stable , coach-house and dog kennels , with the back entrance from the road to his garden … we were soon in King 's Road [ Pancras Way ] which we found to be well studded with trees on each side … to our left the Country residence of Counsellor Agar [ builder of Agar 's Town ] … we turned to the right and first took notice of the front of our Professor 's house with its large garden protected from the pathway and road by a brick wall .
4 We welcome to our debate the Minister for Health , who is in her place on the Treasury Bench .
5 She passed on to our agent the name Raphael , though he paid for it with his life .
6 This time the terms imposed upon him and his followers were much more humiliating : they had to ‘ give such surety as it shall please to our lord the king ’ that they would make no further trouble .
7 Even Brittany , for all Peter de Mauclerc 's homage to our lord the King .
8 Edward I provided a useful source of potential support against Capetian bullying , and in 1282 Jean de Grilly wrote to Robert Burnell and Odo de Grandson , that Armagnac is and always remains faithful to our lord the king' .
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