Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [verb] our [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I said , apologetically , ‘ It 's ridiculous , but I only remember our meeting once , after Oxford . |
| 2 | I just hope our goal will be safe from him ! ’ |
| 3 | But when I quickly explained our problem and made my request , her large furry face wrinkled with doubt . |
| 4 | The Chinese are very good singers , and practically every other person seemed to have a good voice and a repertoire of songs , a lot of them popular revolutionary songs , but also they gave us a rendering of ‘ old Man River ’ and a few others , and we all rounded the occasion off with Rio Grande , Old MacDonald had a farm ( during which the Chairman of the Institute Revolutionary Committee looked a bit bemused ) and Auld Lang Syne. and I also did our bit , singing a few English songs including ‘ Turpin Hero ’ , and we even attempted a rendering of two Chinese songs from the opera ‘ the White-Haired Girl ’ , much to everybody 's amusement and applause . |
| 5 | It is not just that beetles and mice are pests ( we might have said the same of ladybirds and the pursuit of wildfowl ) , but rather that the relative similarity of the larger mammals to ourselves materially affects our thinking and is reflected in our instinctive responses . |
| 6 | I really enjoyed our conversation . |
| 7 | I realise this is higher than originally envisaged but I firmly believe our approach will lead to the best result . |
| 8 | Lord Mayor , I therefore support our motion . |
| 9 | ‘ I never realised our dog was so clever ! ’ |
| 10 | James Harris , writing in 1751 , saw that ‘ all Conversation passes between Particulars or Individuals ’ , and argued that when , at the formative stages of human language , a speaker met another whose name he did not know he addressed him by using ‘ , that is , Pointing , or Indication by the Finger or Hand , some traces of which are still to be observed as a part of that Action which naturally attends our speaking ’ . |
| 11 | we argued there that erm scale of migration was not necessary to be contained within Leeds and Bradford , to promote regeneration because we 're s we 're now , we have now exhausted all our brown field sites to the extent that we 've had to take land out of our greenbelt , but there we were looking at something in the order of four thousand dwellings in three dris districts , spread over fifteen years , and we might reasonably assume that they 'd come forward in a dispersed manner on a site by site basis er and be relatively small scale , certainly we would be looking at the local plans which flow from this alteration to make sure that will be the case , now a new settlement 's a completely different animal , you would have to come forward quickly otherwise it would not be regarded as a success , it would it would need wide publicity , perhaps across the whole region , maybe even beyond , it would be a a major attraction to anybody thinking of moving house er from Leeds to a a location which would be accessible to them to retain their employment in Leeds , so I think we were talking about two different things entirely , more than that Mr Brighton 's su suggested that fifteen hundred would not be an adequate scale , it would have to be , I think two thousand five hundred was his figure , er Mr Timothy 's suggested th the same sort of thinking , and Mr Brook to , that the the settlement would have to get bigger , erm which only compounds our problem , any any settlement which grew larger and larger and inevitably would contain more employment as well as housing would become more of a threat to the regeneration of Leeds and , perhaps to a lesser extent Bradford , and it 's on |
| 12 | Lying in the track of the depressions which so dominate our climate the island catches more than its fair share of bad weather and this , coupled with the conflicting tides of the North Sea and North Atlantic , makes the surrounding waters very troubled for most of the time . |
| 13 | In common with Langer , Bourdieu stresses the relationship of this object world to feelings rather than language ; it is those expressions of disgust , distaste and discomfort which best express our sense of something being ‘ wrong ’ . |
| 14 | Foreign Minister Farooq ash-Shar " , at a press conference concluding Baker 's visit on Oct. 16 , added that he would not shake his Israeli counterpart 's " guilty hands which still occupy our land and ignore Palestinian rights " . |
| 15 | The modern climate , particularly the distribution of rainfall , has combined with different soils to produce the variable vegetation which now covers our landscape . |
| 16 | The villa had turned out to be a converted barn featuring renovated stone walls , distressed oak furniture , and a large resident population of rats , bats , wasps , flies , spiders and cockroaches , all of which strongly resented our intrusion into their habitat . |
| 17 | Our first sight of the island was a sharp mountain peak jutting through the low cloud which unfortunately spoiled our view , but in minutes we were through the cloud and touching down on the long black runway which ran parallel to the shores of the fiord . |
| 18 | Atherstone branch have also just renewed their contract with The Institute of Waste Management in Northampton , which again confirms our ability to provide the highest standard of service . |
| 19 | Not only does it ignore the sense in which suffering can be unwitting but it also begs the question in favour of saying , when specific symptoms like struggling or urination occur in animals , that these are properly to be seen as , emotional responses ' ( which covertly elicits our sympathy for the conscious distress of the stricken human parent rather than the symptoms of it observed in the struggling , yet unaware , athlete ) . |
| 20 | It is a journey in time , which we begin with an experience which completely absorbs our attention but which , at a certain psychological point , demands change . |
| 21 | During the past 15 years , important discoveries of new kinds of extinct agnathans have been made worldwide which considerably increase our knowledge of the variety of agnathans and , at the same time , question some of the traditional ideas about the interrelationships of these early fishes and the history of vertebrate specializations . |
| 22 | Fortunately , during the last few years , there has been a blossoming of research which considerably increases our understanding of how this part of the machinery of planning works . |
| 23 | And anyway , what about all the other equally correct continuations which never crossed our mind until we came to them ? |
| 24 | I remember after the show you spoke for twelve minutes without a note and not only that but you came round afterwards and spent eight or ten minutes with us , the artists , which absolutely made our evening . |
| 25 | FLYPAST IS OFFERING THREE TRIAL FLIGHT LESSONS IN THE ANDREW EDIE T-6 TO THE LUCKY READERS WHO SUCCESSFULLY ENTER OUR COMPETITION . |
| 26 | In a cold season you suddenly left our home |
| 27 | You knew I 'd move in with you — perhaps you already felt our child kick inside your belly — ; you saw us wave it off to school . |
| 28 | You just missed our offer , ’ said the waiter . |
| 29 | This meets with Denice 's approval , and she swears solemnly that if she ever has our child , it will be called Keifer or Julia . |
| 30 | She also edited our magazine for several years . |