Example sentences of "as we [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is were double bed tuck comes into its own , because the single needle per tuck rule no longer applies as soon as we bring the front bed into work and carrying stitches . |
| 2 | But William Wright 's has a sort of voyeuristic interest as we follow the neglected child of the shipping tycoon from her English boarding school via her wild goings-on in St Moritz to her battle for control of her father 's business . |
| 3 | ‘ Where are you sleeping ? ’ she asked as we made the front door . |
| 4 | The waves seemed to increase in size as we passed the first section of headland , continuing to smash with awesome power to our right , too close to our right ! |
| 5 | There was a storm as we passed the southern tip of Cuba , and the ship I was on was smashed on to offshore rocks by the weather . |
| 6 | He pointed out several good restaurants as we passed the magnificent Stanford shopping precinct . |
| 7 | By the week 's end the proctologist was saying that it had been the best goddamned vacation he had ever taken , and as we passed the bunkering moorings near McIllvanney 's yard I saw him take Ellen aside and I guessed he was offering her a job . |
| 8 | We felt like gods as we surveyed the distraught insects ' frantic efforts to remove precious eggs from sight . |
| 9 | Late that afternoon Plague Ship Hatshepsut reaches her final mooring in ancient Thebes , and there is a chorus of clicking camera shutters as we pass the unexpected splendour of a silhouetted Luxor temple . |
| 10 | well the reason that we 've changed the name on those two stores is that any experiments we want to conduct have got to be conducted outside the normal M F I promotional platform and as we use the national press extensively the only way to do that is to change the name . |
| 11 | ‘ So of course , ’ said Bartlemas , ‘ as soon as we heard the ghastly news about Marius , we just had to rush round here … ’ |
| 12 | ‘ The movement I enjoyed most was canter half-pass across the short diagonal with a flying change on the centre line , half-pass back across the diagonal and finishing with another flying change as we reached the outer track . |
| 13 | Whatever has gone wrong , it was all our fault , but we are trapped in helplessness , and as we contemplate the dull ruins of the fabric of our lives in the light that shines from our visions of what might have been , our ‘ real ’ life seems messier and drabber , and we weep in self-pity for the golden afternoons that never were ours . |
| 14 | Perhaps the book of lamentation is not the book you normally turn to , to find words of encouragement , but there are tremendous encouragements to be found in it , listen what the profits says there , in the third chapter , he says this I recall to my mind , and he 's talking about the time of his own affliction , the time when he is going through it , the time when nobody loves him , the time when everybody 's against him , when he 's suffering and he 's in pain the time when life is full of bitterness for him , he says this I recall to my mind , therefore I have hope , the lords loving kindness indeed never ceases for his compassion 's never fail and here Jesus is demonstrating that , he 's compassion 's never fail , he 's loving kindnesses they never cease , here in his dying hour Jesus is showing that in reaching out to this man but as we said the other week the , the deepest , the most important significance of what Jesus did then , of what Jesus said then , its not just of the historical account , but that he is able and willing to say and to do exactly the same today in your experience and in mine , what he did for that man on the cross he 's ready and willing to do for every one of us the incident may of happened nineteen hundred years ago , but there 's the old hymn , the verse reminds us , picks out that very story and it says the dying thief rejoiced to see that fountain in his day and there may I , though via us he wash all my sins away , and that verse from William Cowper 's hymn , it takes up that great historical event , that tremendous happening in that man 's life and he links it with a present and it applies it to you and to me and says this can be our experience as well . |
| 15 | But as we said the other week th the deepest , the most important significance of what Jesus did then , of what Jesus said then is not just of the historical account , but that he is able and willing to say and to do exactly the same today in your experience and in mine . |
| 16 | They circled in the wind , their cries filling the morning air as we crossed the bottom meadows into the hamlet . |
| 17 | We had also managed to scrounge plenty of drink and , as we had the whole theatre to ourselves , we played endless games of paper chase and treasure hunt in and out of the stalls and the boxes and the circle . |
| 18 | As property prices in London were moving upwards , Eva 's shrewd plan was to decorate the flat as we had the last house , sell at a profit , and move on . |
| 19 | As far as we know the microcomputer-based emergency response system devised by Belardo et al. ( 1983 ) , is the only GIS-like software to incorporate this algorithm . |
| 20 | As we rode the four miles to Wuthering Heights , he kept asking me questions about his new home , and the father he had never seen . |
| 21 | At Magdalen Bridge , Dennis went ashore for more champagne , which passed from hand to hand as we negotiated the lower reaches of the river . |
| 22 | As we negotiated the slippery rungs of that staircase , there were always a few interested bystanders with nothing better to do than shout encouraging remarks from time to time , but we soon learnt to ignore them . |
| 23 | As we explored the roofless shells of the other buildings we remarked on the way each dwelling was sunk into the ground . |
| 24 | But as we approach the far bank the hole seems to take more and more of the balls . |
| 25 | Britain , as we approach the second millennium , is far from that place . |
| 26 | As we approach the third millennium , women will become less materialistic and more spiritual . |
| 27 | My hon. Friend has made a very important point , which I suspect will become more important as we approach the coming election . |
| 28 | As we approach the last years of the 20th century , environmental damage to the earth , air and water threaten the basic resources on which we depend . ’ |
| 29 | I remember squealing as we watch the black monster twitch its claws on the scullery floor . |
| 30 | This axiom is worth remembering as we enter the second year of the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction , declared by the UN . |