Example sentences of "as we [verb] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 When we reached Dunkil we could have done two things , we could have said to the Bible class , We had a marvellous journey up and told them all about the glory of God as we saw him in the mountains , or we could have said , We almost had an accident on our way up here .
2 We tried to explain the situation as we saw it to the police .
3 He said nothing as we climbed the stairs , but he did n't switch the lights on as we passed them on the landing .
4 As we passed them on the road we glimpsed great crowds of people in the wide back seats , a jumble of merry faces at the windows .
5 As we put her into the chair , she opened her eyes .
6 ‘ I 'll start with the facts as far as we know them at the moment . ’
7 However , as we know them in the modern world , there are virtually no middle classes in 1700 .
8 Although there were thousands of lesser and hundreds of brown noddies on Cousin in October , it can not be easy to assess the population size , because with no positive ‘ summer season ’ as we know it in the temperate zones , many birds can be found breeding almost throughout the year .
9 It is true that there is a distinction between art as it is used develop mentally in schools and art as we know it in the world , but for most people is n't art what we knew it as in school ?
10 I do n't say as good as we get it at the Club " — there was still a spark of spirit left in him — " but decidedly good . "
11 You 'll see that reflected by the European press and the public as we introduce it on the continent next year .
12 A herring gull ( G ) hardly moving a feather as it follows a boat , the long wings are foreshortened dramatically as we view them from the side
13 Martin seems to be missing by a distance as we joust it round the table , so after half a dozen exchanges I go down with much confidence on a half-ball cut into the bottom left-hand pocket .
14 Cable & Wireless Plc says it does not accept those claims made against it by its local partners in Digitel Telecommunications Philippines Inc ( CI No 2,171 ) and will defend against the allegations : ‘ We have received no official notification of this claim and we do not accept the validity of the allegations as we understand them from the press , and would expect to defend our position robustly , ’ it said ; Reuter reports from Manila that the local Cable & Wireless office says that it advised the company last September that it could not invest further in the country until a court case involving another local affiliate , Eastern Telecommunications Philippines Inc , was resolved — Eastern is locked in a legal battle with Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co and appealing a Supreme Court order denying it the right to operate an international gateway ; an industry source said Digitel is tapping another major local partner and British Telecommunications Plc as new shareholders in the company .
15 And when we got there we started to pack the small things on the front , the l the luton as we call it over the cab .
16 This is called dynamic storage allocation because the variables of type PERSON are created as we need them in the program .
17 As we watched them through the kitchen window , Heathcliff seemed to be thinking aloud .
18 However , even here a discrepancy arises as Mercier shows the keyfronts to be black ( just as we see them on the William Smith ) , whereas in all of the spinets by Hitchcock and in his sole surviving harpsichord at the Victoria and Albert Museum , London , the colour of the keyfronts matches the natural key plates ( i.e. ivory keys always have ivory arcades ) .
19 I have never quite understood why " Chesh " as we called him at the time , was the only person I selected for training with the Force that my Master vetoed ; my Master also vetoed the selection of Leonard to command No 35 Squadron in the early days of the Pathfinder Force and I was never able to establish why .
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