Example sentences of "as we [verb] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As we walked through a network of pipes and valves we realized that this was what Hinkley C would look like before its radioactive inventory took over and no human beings could enter where we were standing . |
| 2 | Oh it 's going , ooh , it went out actually just as we went over a bump |
| 3 | The caravan , we 'd like , made sure that nothing happened cos we were renting it , and then as we went through a petrol station , on the way home |
| 4 | So as we came to a stop the hatch was opened and this young fellow put one foot on the throttle quadrant , another on my shoulder and the next one on the top of my helmet and he was out . |
| 5 | The book , as we gather from a plan in his notebooks of the same period , was to deal with four large areas : ethics ; aesthetics ; religion and mythology ; and politics , law and education . |
| 6 | Things got off to a bad start anyway when my Reliant Robin was crushed by Pahdra Singh 's Bentley as we jostled for a parking place . |
| 7 | As we swung in a hammock by the fire he explained that far from being a subversive organization , the Hui was actually a preserver of traditions . |
| 8 | As we taxied to a halt on the coastal grassy runway , we disturbed parties of curlew , sandpipers and grey plover . |
| 9 | As we launch into a debate about last week 's Clash front cover , GW 's jaunty , surprisingly Big Country-tinged epic kind of ends , unlamented . ) |
| 10 | As we stepped into a side road , a car roared round the corner , its tyres screeching , and almost wiped both of us into oblivion . |
| 11 | One feature of English verse that is scanted by this method , or can be acknowledged only incidentally , is one that every careful reader knows from his or her experience : tempo , the speeding up or slowing down of enunciation , and therefore of apprehension , as we read through a line or through several lines in sequence . |
| 12 | As we describe in a paper soon to be published by the Brookings Institution in Washington , DC , they should be required to make non-interest-bearing deposits with their central bank . |
| 13 | Commitment offering oneself to the lord in the service of the church and the world is the third and quite prominent element in the service of confirmation as we have it , and as we say in a day when emphasis is being laid on the ministry of the whole people of God there is surely value in a definite act of commitment on a definite day . |
| 14 | And an even remoter possibility as we baked in a toll queue vibrating with the beat from umpteen cassettes and radios . |
| 15 | The first creature we had seen , a small turtle , was sunning itself on a rock as we climbed into a canoe and paddled and drifted round the green-speared edge of the lake . |
| 16 | We get the same royalties for a CD as we do for a cassette |
| 17 | ‘ Strange , ’ I muttered to Benjamin as we stayed at a tavern on our first night out of Calais . |
| 18 | ‘ You can not always guarantee that you will always be in control of what you are doing as we live in a culture that is soaked in violence , and so it seems to think that violence is acceptable , even normal . ’ |
| 19 | As we pulled through a grove of bedraggled trees , the horse shied violently and stood up on its hind legs , neighing , between the shafts , so that we were tipped backwards . |
| 20 | All of us get elated and emotional as we stroll through a pine grove on a hot summer day when the old trees fill the air with their pungent fragrance . |
| 21 | Life may be construed as a series of ever growing accomplishments as we move towards a multitude of personal goals . |
| 22 | Frank saw me watching the sway of her buttocks as we trooped down a corridor . |