Example sentences of "as we [verb] [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is , however , fairly easy to work out the energy as we bring in the charges from infinity one by one . |
| 2 | All our suppressed mirth escapes in little bubbles as we walk along the road . |
| 3 | On the 18th tee we hit the same 3-wood , and as we walked down the fairway the crowds were massed around the last green ; the noise was unbelievable . |
| 4 | ‘ As we came up the trackway of your house , Sir John , we found a Hand of Glory with a lighted candle in its fingers . ’ |
| 5 | Late in the morning Valeria suggested we should all go down and have breakfast , and as we came down the staircase we saw to our horror that her mother was waiting for us at the bottom . |
| 6 | Well I saw that pai , I saw the shop as , as we came down the Ayleston Road , near the terminus . |
| 7 | As we go up the scale of complexity , many highly evolved and sophisticated molecules are involved in the constitution of even the simplest living cell . |
| 8 | This latter fact simply means that as we go along the chain of correlated consequences to larger and larger systems the links in the chain become tighter and tighter , less and less subject to quantum mechanical " creakiness ' . |
| 9 | You are Scottish ? ’ and each time she touches my kilt with her hand , throwing her head back and laughing as we spin around the dance floor . |
| 10 | We took a two-hour tour of South London with Eva drinking Guinness and hanging out the window cheering as we passed down the Old Kent Road , stopping beside the famous site of Dr Lal 's surgery and the dance hall of love , where Mum met Dad and fell . |
| 11 | As we progress up the scale of profit-taking , we find others who sell at small craft fairs and those who find an outlet through local shops , until we come at last to the favoured few who sell at the prestigious crafts fairs which Hugh prefers . |
| 12 | It was peaceful enough now but there was menace in the heaving swell and a chill in the evening air as we tan up the east coast of Shetland . |
| 13 | Yes he wa , wa over there the other lunchtime as we reversed out the drive . |
| 14 | As we drove up the lime tree avenue , a traditional feature of Irish country houses , the rain was reducing visibility to a few inches . |
| 15 | As we drove up the Llanberis Pass he imparted to me , in response to my questions , something of the routine of his life . |
| 16 | I do n't want to be blown across the room in the first ten minutes so I hang back a little as we sit round the table with Anthony Hopkins and Campbell Scott to read the scene through and discuss it . |
| 17 | As we sit round the set , |
| 18 | As we blow up the balloon , its surface gets larger ( that is , spacetime expands ) . |
| 19 | New Zealand I hope to visit myself probably on my way home as we come round the Horn and thereby circumnavigate the globe ! ! ! |
| 20 | We have a quick swim in the dark , cold water , touching the sandy bottom with our toes as we dive off the raft , the evening still bright , still hot . |
| 21 | ‘ Do n't forget we 're going to Appleby tomorrow , ’ Elinor said as we tidied up the kitchen . |
| 22 | As a church architect , I have visited , I believe , all the cathedrals in Europe — Chartres , Burgos , Canterbury , Cologne , Saragossa , Milano , Ely , Zagreb , Gozo , Rheims — ’ I continued to name them for some while as we tramped down the nave . |
| 23 | As we steamed down the Sound of Mull one fine afternoon , my No. 1 , Dave Scadding , who was a keen fisherman , noticed a flock of gulls screaming on the water ahead . |
| 24 | The fighting in our immediate area seemed to have quietened down as we handed over the prisoners to join , I would think , about a couple of hundred , all gathered together in a field close to the orchard . |
| 25 | As we march up the grass towards the motel building I put my arm around Laverne , who knows he 's in for it . |
| 26 | As we climbed up the crags of Petra , black goats eyed us warily from black holes . |
| 27 | As we climbed up the canyon we made a great clatter with sticks and stones and old tin cans , announcing our presence to the denizens . |
| 28 | As we look around the world , that might sound rather hollow . |
| 29 | As we loaded up the trucks with everything we would need for our month away at Canjuers I felt that we might be about to learn some soldiering . |
| 30 | If the organ music swells this Christmas as we run down the lanes of childhood in search of sentiment or the values of yesterday , and if the early darkness on Christmas evening finds us replete and empty at the same time , maybe its because we have left the Josephs of this world alone in their silent day and all too silent night . |