Example sentences of "as we [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 As we noted in the previous chapter , the nation of Israel occupied a central place in the realisation of this hope , serving as the gathering-point of the nations ( Isa. 24:23 ; Zech. 14:9 ; Obad. 21 ) .
2 As we noted in the last chapter , to say that a decision or action is subject to judicial review is to say that it can be challenged on the basis of the rules and principles of public law which define the grounds of judicial review .
3 As we argued in the previous chapter , this profits squeeze fundamentally reflected overaccumulation .
4 What follows , while by no means comprehensive , is NME 's guide to the world blown wide open by the greatest war movies , a world we 'd like to see on TV as we wait for the next one .
5 They both knew that as we walked off the 16th .
6 As we walked towards an ancient Volkswagen she took my arm and rested too heavily upon it and asked if I 'd brought her anything from London .
7 As we walked towards the white chalk cliffs , a cacophony of sound greeted us : gruntings , trumpetings , squaw kings , me wings , growlings .
8 I patted the three tees in my pocket as we walked to the 18th tee .
9 As we walked through the open-air lobby on our way to the beach , we drew a lot of curious looks from the other guests at the resort .
10 As we skimmed along the last hundred metres , I said to the lieutenant , ‘ Tuan , have you something the boy can put over his shirt ?
11 Tony went as fast as he could , and I was concentrating on staying on board as we rattled over the bumpy paths .
12 THERE was not another house to be seen from the Boggle Hole hostel on the North Yorkshire coast , as we woke to the gentle sounds of the warden reciting Buddhist mantras , and waves lapping the sands .
13 Clinton , Throgmorton and the rest tried to draw Benjamin into conversation as we went up the main steps of the chateau .
14 As we went towards the final stop on the factory tour , where the clubs were diligently checked by hand , I managed to edge alongside Toby .
15 Another member of the audience asked , ‘ What would be different this time around as we went through a similar identity crisis 5 or so years ago . ’
16 He said : ‘ There was a crackle of automatic gunfire as we went through a Croatian checkpoint .
17 Certainly er by then perhaps I forgot to mention as we went through the front door my weapon was already out of the holster and by the time we 'd got the bedroom door my weapon would already have been under er my eye level , hence literally aiming the weapon and from there the gun was out , my arm was out , whether I still had hold of P C I I ca n't recall .
18 That 's what I thought the trolley sounded like as we went through the green channel .
19 Yes my Lord er as soon as we went to the main bedroom which was the back bedroom at the same time as as that bedroom door opened , so the second team consisting of er P C P C would have gone into the second smaller bedroom and at the same time as we went in er P C and P C job er was to cover our backs in case of anybody in er the kitchen or the living area , the living room area .
20 We 'd played fairly steady , and as we went to the 11th tee I automatically reached for the driver .
21 We were bunched together in the semi-final of the 1976 Olympic 1500m in Montreal and as we went for the same small gap I felt his spike again my shin .
22 I never took him again because as we went in the big dog bounded from his mistress ' side and produced a particularly sonorous blast as if in greeting .
23 Both writers make light of this crossing from Fort Augustus to the middle of Glenmoriston , even though it must have proven their most arduous stage so far — eleven miles of high , hard going , ‘ cut in traverses ’ as Johnson says , ‘ so that as we went upon a higher stage , we saw the baggage following us below in a contrary direction . ’
24 But unfortunately this did not last for long as we came to a narrow , shallow strip of the river .
25 Everything seemed to be plain sailing now as we came to the 17th .
26 As we came off the 17th green Seve said , ‘ There 's going to be a playoff . ’
27 As we came off the 17th green Seve said , ‘ There 's going to be a playoff . ’
28 As we came into the front hall I heard Kevin yelling up the stairs , ‘ Stop the hammering !
29 As we came upon the moving picture with its ability not only to entertain us but also to analyse what we could not easily see with the unaided eye , we began to recognize that we had new tools for discovery ; we now knew exactly how a horse used its feet in galloping , what an explosion was like in slow motion , what a street looked like to the condensed eye of the time-lapse camera .
30 Dom-peromp — stamp — derompompompedom , derom — stamp — perom — stamp went the music as we clattered round the loose floorboards .
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