Example sentences of "as we were [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This plan was no sloppily organized affair , aware as we were of the lengths to which threatened men will go to protect their most prized territory . |
| 2 | Unfortunately , just as we were on the verge of starting an affair , he heard that I had other irons in the fire . ’ |
| 3 | We have always in Czechoslovakia been proud of being Europeans , as we were before the First World War and between the wars . |
| 4 | They beat Malvern Vale who were another erm of the promotion contenders , three nil today , so Maidenhead and ourselves are in the same relationship as we were before the game . |
| 5 | Young people whom we knew to be honest , stung as we were by the sufferings of our Fatherland , lived convinced that Cuba 's independence was a Yankee gift and that our denunciations of national oppression were simply ways of serving an idea that they considered to be ‘ anti-Cuban ’ ( ‘ Reflexiones ante un aniversario ’ , Hoy , 29 July 1959 , p. 1 , cited in Farber : 1983 , p. 61 ) . |
| 6 | But we may expect in the long run to become as comfortable in the new clothes as we were in the old . |