Example sentences of "as we [vb past] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Where are you sleeping ? ’ she asked as we made the front door . |
| 2 | 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 ! |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He pointed out several good restaurants as we passed the magnificent Stanford shopping precinct . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | We felt like gods as we surveyed the distraught insects ' frantic efforts to remove precious eggs from sight . |
| 7 | ‘ So of course , ’ said Bartlemas , ‘ as soon as we heard the ghastly news about Marius , we just had to rush round here … ’ |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | They circled in the wind , their cries filling the morning air as we crossed the bottom meadows into the hamlet . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | At Magdalen Bridge , Dennis went ashore for more champagne , which passed from hand to hand as we negotiated the lower reaches of the river . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | As we explored the roofless shells of the other buildings we remarked on the way each dwelling was sunk into the ground . |
| 18 | The roller-coaster cliff-top walk was tiring but both Vanessa and I were spurred on as we approached the final climb up Golden Cap . |
| 19 | But , after a glorious day 's exploring , by the time we turned for home the weather had become very wild , and as we approached the first barrier , waves were breaking fiercely over the road . |
| 20 | Civilisation soon came back into evidence again as we approached the small collection of buildings of North Eggardon Farm . |
| 21 | As we approached the ramshackle pier the Mantela stopped her engines , waited , then , as though changing gear , trembled into a slow approach . |
| 22 | Now it was on to " Ultima Thule " and we felt we were really in the far north , nearer to Norway than to the UK mainland as we approached the jagged headland of Sumburgh , ringed ominously with the chart symbol for a " rost " [ tide race ] on our chart . |
| 23 | Everyone was up on the sun deck in the early morning as we approached the magnificent twin peaks of this imposing looking island . |
| 24 | As we entered the main causeway which snaked through the trees to the manor 's main door , the sight of Royston killed the song on our lips and the joy in our hearts . |
| 25 | As we entered the bloated face nodded us a silent greeting . |
| 26 | Jack 's Rake is a difficult scramble and at one or two points positively frightening as we climbed the final yards we felt a great sense of achievement . |
| 27 | As we started the long walk back across the tundra to Camp Bell , we decided that there was nothing for it but to establish a base camp at the foot of the cliffs . |
| 28 | At weekends we cycled there under the hot sun in the early afternoon , not minding the heat at all because we knew that as soon as we arrived the cool water would welcome us . |
| 29 | As we watched the striped killer-ships peel away , for once Mala and I were in total accord — both anxious , both angry . |
| 30 | So security was extra-tight as we visited the exclusive Knightsbridge store . |