Example sentences of "as we [verb] [adv prt] 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 | Richard O'Flynn , a training partner of John Treacy 's with a personal best of 28:20 , made an early surge as we ran down an avenue of skyscraping cabbage palms . |
| 7 | She was watching the road as we roared down a slight incline at all of seventy . |
| 8 | Just as we stepped over a rise , we nearly fell over the boy racer and party having their lunch . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 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 . |