Example sentences of "as we [verb] [adv] a " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ We had been to the pub and as we walked along a well-lit walkway this man came towards us . |
2 | Now the water was chest-high — more than that as we struggled round a corner , to meet a great frothing wave . |
3 | They were just there , suddenly , as we came over a hill and saw a river below us . |
4 | In Salamanca we often smiled at each other as we passed along a street called Street of the Two Poets — or was it a little plaza ? |
5 | As we settle around a large table , John Schlesinger , the director , asks if I would like to read the minor parts . |
6 | She was watching the road as we roared down a slight incline at all of seventy . |
7 | Just as we stepped over a rise , we nearly fell over the boy racer and party having their lunch . |
8 | As we sat down a little way away from the rest of the group , I saw a small girl waving her hamster 's cage at the sky . |
9 | As we live only a short distance from the Thames , we have to keep a net over the pond , as two years ago we lost 18 fish to a heron . |
10 | As we stumbled over a greasy corduroy track , rhododendron branches reached eerily out of the greyness . |
11 | But as we travelled down a lovely wooded valley towards the north coast at Alta , the sun appeared below the clouds near midnight and we stopped to take our first pictures of the midnight sun . |