Example sentences of "as we [verb] [adv prt] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'd just like you to understand the problems we have … we do the best we can , ’ sighs Soliz as we walk back to the bus stop . |
| 2 | As we walked on to the jetty , I was watching carefully to make sure none of my trunks was left on board . |
| 3 | ‘ He 's entered in a race at Worcester the day after tomorrow , ’ Tremayne said as we walked out to the yard at seven in the half-dawn . |
| 4 | He was pin high to the left of the flag and the crowd was stamping and cheering as we walked down to the green . |
| 5 | Instead , as we walked down to the bar this evening , he had been all smiles and indulgent gallantry , complimenting us on our appearance , an arm lightly circling each of our waists . |
| 6 | ‘ Her name is Shinko , ’ he told me happily as we walked back to the flat . |
| 7 | As we walked back to the dispensary he asked me , almost casually , yet in a way trying to find out how much I knew , ‘ Tell me , what 's the extent of your knowledge of polio ? ’ |
| 8 | I protested as we walked back to the flat . |
| 9 | And then , as we drifted back to the ship after a placid midday meal , a shadow darkened our cheerful day . |
| 10 | ‘ Useful , ye see , ’ Ward said as we went through to the baggage claim area . |
| 11 | I thought about running along beside him as we came up to the main road opposite the church , about his taking my hand and singing , ‘ Hold my hand — I 'm a stranger in paradise ! ’ |
| 12 | Herds of giraffe and waterbuck raced across the swamps in our shadow as we swooped on to the sandy airstrip . |
| 13 | ‘ Oh God , ’ said Julia as we crossed back to the restaurant . |
| 14 | But as we continued on to the broad plateau of Geal-Charn , not named on the ordnance survey map , we saw a figure in the distance . |
| 15 | My rose-growing Surrey headmaster ( by now retired ) came to Banbury for a weekend , and as we drove off to the Cotswolds he tried to persuade me that the implication of all this was that secondary schools would no longer be a worthwhile place for teachers with academic interests : all the good work would hereafter be done within an inflated system of higher education . |
| 16 | I enquired , as we drove down to the shrine . |
| 17 | As we drove back to the airport Smith said that at the end of the war he had been executive officer at a naval air base in California , and that one of the officers there had been a certain Lieutenant Richard Milhous Nixon . |
| 18 | As we sat down to the first of many repetitive meals of salted fish and ground corn , I broached the question of finding a prahu which might carry us as far as Aru . |
| 19 | As we swept down to the seam in the old iron lift we all grabbed each other 's hands in simultaneous panic . |
| 20 | He watches after us with evident satisfaction , as we teeter back to the stadium much the worse for the experience . |
| 21 | We had Liverpool superstar Frank Holden for company as we travelled down to the Twenty Foot river near March . |
| 22 | As we move on to the fifteenth century , it is hard to judge the extent or the severity of individual outbreaks of plague or of other diseases , but it is probable that some of the epidemics which occurred in urban centres , where plague was most common , were on a sufficient scale to outweigh any natural increase in the population . |
| 23 | We heard at least one yacht being warned off on VHF as we headed back to the Sunsail base in Corsica . |