Example sentences of "as we [verb] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dung only penetrated as far as my upper thigh as we struck up the devastated hillside towards Meall a' Choire Leith . |
| 2 | As we noted earlier the surveys of both secondary and primary schools provided information on what was happening in schools , although they were restricted ( in the case of the secondary survey particularly ) to a subject-based analysis of the curriculum . |
| 3 | As we noted earlier the developments of this work make this unlikely . |
| 4 | As we noted earlier the Conservative Government has followed two major policies in an attempt to deal with this penal crisis : firstly , simply to build more prisons ; and secondly , to reduce the numbers receiving custodial sentences . |
| 5 | It is , however , fairly easy to work out the energy as we bring in the charges from infinity one by one . |
| 6 | As we lurched up the soaking , slimy boulders towards it , like a team of wet-look mime artists walking against the wind , one of our party stopped and said , ‘ Let's go back . ’ |
| 7 | All our suppressed mirth escapes in little bubbles as we walk along the road . |
| 8 | But as we walked further the noise we had heard , which at first might have been taken for wind and rain , began to break up into shouts , cries , calls , over a ground-bass which I can only call a sigh : a deep sigh , repeated over and over , as if the wide world itself were sighing . |
| 9 | ‘ We had been to the pub and as we walked along a well-lit walkway this man came towards us . |
| 10 | I can remember him saying , as we walked down the second fairway , ‘ Willie , if I can win these people ( the gallery ? over from Jack [ Nicklaus ] so that they want me to win , I 'll win for them . ’ |
| 11 | On the 18th tee we hit the same 3-wood , and as we walked down the fairway the crowds were massed around the last green ; the noise was unbelievable . |
| 12 | Now the water was chest-high — more than that as we struggled round a corner , to meet a great frothing wave . |
| 13 | It felt , as we struggled up the last , steepest stage of the hillside , that we were swimming in the white light of the sun . |
| 14 | As we went up the almost perpendicular staircase , Wendy pulled the banister away from the wall . |
| 15 | But as we went up the first steep hill we quickly worked up a healthy sweat and removed our fleece jackets . |
| 16 | As we went downstairs the lawyer said to me , ‘ I know you were n't aware of this , Miss Eyre . |
| 17 | They were just there , suddenly , as we came over a hill and saw a river below us . |
| 18 | ‘ As we came up the trackway of your house , Sir John , we found a Hand of Glory with a lighted candle in its fingers . ’ |
| 19 | Late in the morning Valeria suggested we should all go down and have breakfast , and as we came down the staircase we saw to our horror that her mother was waiting for us at the bottom . |
| 20 | Well I saw that pai , I saw the shop as , as we came down the Ayleston Road , near the terminus . |
| 21 | As we moored up the late shipping forecast was giving warnings of south-easterly gales for the area , so we had just made it in time . |
| 22 | As we saw earlier the successful candidates are those who can muster a quota of votes , the same for all of them however great the disparity in the number of votes they respectively received at the first count . |
| 23 | As we go up the scale of complexity , many highly evolved and sophisticated molecules are involved in the constitution of even the simplest living cell . |
| 24 | This latter fact simply means that as we go along the chain of correlated consequences to larger and larger systems the links in the chain become tighter and tighter , less and less subject to quantum mechanical " creakiness ' . |
| 25 | ( TIM ) Hello there … they all get a look in tonight … as we round up the local sport … on the start line ready to go first is the football parade |
| 26 | You are Scottish ? ’ and each time she touches my kilt with her hand , throwing her head back and laughing as we spin around the dance floor . |
| 27 | As we sweated up the final rise , the stern brow of Profitis Ilias came into view on our left . |
| 28 | We took a two-hour tour of South London with Eva drinking Guinness and hanging out the window cheering as we passed down the Old Kent Road , stopping beside the famous site of Dr Lal 's surgery and the dance hall of love , where Mum met Dad and fell . |
| 29 | 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 ? |
| 30 | As we progress up the scale of profit-taking , we find others who sell at small craft fairs and those who find an outlet through local shops , until we come at last to the favoured few who sell at the prestigious crafts fairs which Hugh prefers . |