Example sentences of "as we be [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And so it goes on through life ; always a struggle between wanting to hold on to what we have at the same time as we are reaching out for new joys and satisfactions ; always the dilemma of making choices , of greedily wanting everything , of resenting having to let anything go . |
| 2 | with a s as we were picking up from last week , a c a c in , in a sense that land reform is , is already taking place , there is this sort of groundswell from the masses that to move beyond the , the moderate policy and that is then formalized in the May the fourth directive which marks like the return to land reform going back to and then y y y y you 've got the implementation of that May the fourth directive and then out of a very difficult position in nineteen forty seven when they , they are under attack from the Kuomintang and i in the spring of nineteen forty seven is actually taken by Kuomintang . |
| 3 | As we were stepping on to the adjoining barge , the man on the bench called out to us . |
| 4 | As we were going out through the doorway he stopped us . |
| 5 | And then erm one afternoon we went in a dug out canoe erm to look for crocodiles and we did actually see them on the banks of the river as we were going down in our canoe , so that was quite exciting . |
| 6 | The telephone would ring at one o'clock , just as we were sitting down to lunch . |
| 7 | He took me out last Sunday and I said as we were driving over to Lavenham , I said an early would be much appreciated , I said I cooked the Sunday Lunch for my lodgers , but I have n't , in fact , had any myself he said you 've got to have a high tea , he said you must have a proper meal and he ordered up salad and a a ham salad and have this and have that and have the other , where as some of them like this chap Gerald who was erm sent me by one of the other agencies the first time we went out he took me to a meal and he obviously felt that quite enough , after that he used to come out to see me after he 'd had his meal meanness , hanging onto money ! |
| 8 | Just as we were coming up to the laundry , Kaptan broke free of the Corporal and ran down the side of the building . |
| 9 | But as we were coming out of the doorway , running across there , sidling round the side was the inspector . |
| 10 | As we were walking back through the garden to the house , he said to me , ‘ Jane , you 've had a strange night . |