Example sentences of "we [vb past] as a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He would insist on checking our observations before we sent them to Group on the teleprinter , and this we regarded as a deadly insult , most of us having been doing them unchecked for over three years . |
| 2 | What I intend to deal with is the record as it stands because anybody who 's going to argue a case against the decline of of any kind of system has to put the facts as they are , not as they would wish them to be , and I would argue that the legacy , before we can do that , the legacy which we inherited as a controlling group back in 1990 , is now a matter of record I would accept . |
| 3 | Off we went as a tumultuous procession through the streets of West London . |
| 4 | We had both come to hate it and its invisible driver , whom we visualized as a smug glutton sleeping in a comfortable bed each night and stuffing his face with three square meals a day . |
| 5 | But I 'm anticipating a shortfall of somewhere between £600,000 to £800,000 , which equates to the £1m that we wanted as a long-term 15-year loan . |