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Example sentences of "our [noun] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	‘ Virtually as soon as she was born our mum had her down for dancing classes , never mind football .
2	Our mum said it was a fantastic , she 'd never been , she said her and her mate was wetting their knickers all night .
3	She said our mum said you can have her microwave .
4	And our mum said you come round and get it .
5	Our mum said you missed the best night of your life .
6	Cos I did n't know what you know our mum got her a couple of games .
7	Our mum tried them on she said but six foot four and a short arse she said
8	Our GP told me that a drug called Dexamethazone , although in no way a cure , would probably help Nigel 's state of mind by reducing the pressure of the growth on his brain .
9	Our GP took me straight to Queen Mary 's , Roehampton .
10	However , our GP persuaded him that such a course would be against the public Health Act .
11	‘ Our chairman saw them beat Marseilles in a pre-season friendly , ’ says manager Roy Walker .
12	As Paul 's letter to Titus reminds us , ‘ But when the kindness and love of God our Saviour appeared he saved us : not because of any righteous deeds we had done but because of his mercy .
13	I mean we ought to say in our case approved our the proposals of the company , they raise no objections in which only the who raised objections , the employees did n't and in the High Court case we 've just said , how can an employee be independent , when he depends upon his employer for his future work .
14	Our forefathers saw it only as a gesture .
15	Our crewmates warned us about the Biranese girls ' reputation as practitioners of a dangerous form of magic which could trap a man on their island for ever ; then they disappeared ashore into the backstreets .
16	The result was that we were dangerously isolated with a strong coalition arrayed against us , but fortunately our opponents overplayed their hand .
17	Our Sarah saved your life . ’
18	I thought our defence handled them extremely well .
19	‘ Besides , the job was done by then — Norwich seemed to run out of ideas and our defence snuffed them out . ’
20	Each of our experts had his or her concept .
21	Discretion erring , our driver announced we would swap buses .
22	‘ Richard Ingrams seemed to think we must be ‘ pooves ’ because our hair touched our collars .
23	On the fourth day we moved our camp a few miles to the east , where our trackers maintained we should find the nyala more numerous ; this proved to be the case .
24	In fact , our research showed they would be quite surprising to customers and non-customers alike .
25	It was not until the murderer 's long soliloquy that we were able to look around ; frozen as we were in profile , our eyes searched you out , first confidently , then hesitantly , then desperately as each patch of turf , each log , every exposed corner in every direction proved uninhabited , and all the while the murderous King addressed the horizon with his dreary interminable guilt …
26	As herds of humans dressed as cows ( at least , that 's what our eyes told us ) wander up and down Bleecker Street , we slump and watch The Shams , three women dressed as men , play an acoustic set which publicised their sexual fantasies .
27	When our eyes met he gave me a frigid little smile .
28	When our eyes met he unfolded his arms , stood up and walked slowly over to join me .
29	Take us and Europe now , is n't it odd that , after two world wars , in which our men who died , our nations sacrificed themselves in fighting what was thought to be the great German danger , we now find ourselves at least as much hostile to our allies in both of those wars — the French — as we do to the Germans , and if one could measure this sort of thing it might well be that in the British public at large you would find more sympathy towards the Germans than the French .
30	We stayed for about an hour , then with the sisters ' greetings ringing in our ears rejoined our escort outside the walls and continued our journey .