Example sentences of "as we [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hung a left and wondered about the driver 's door which parted company with us as we struck a portside wall . |
| 2 | This is were double bed tuck comes into its own , because the single needle per tuck rule no longer applies as soon as we bring the front bed into work and carrying stitches . |
| 3 | As we parked the car we saw someone being carried off the path into an ambulance — the attendant was n't kidding . |
| 4 | Meanwhile , Intel still denies that there is any delay in volume deliveries of the Pentium 80586 microprocessor for public consumption , but vendors briefed by the company have confirmed that , as we revealed a few weeks ago ( UX No 410 ) , the part at present needs a heat sink and a fan , and that Intel is unlikely to be able to ship in volume before the fourth quarter 1993 . |
| 5 | For a few miles , as we hugged the shore of the Strait , the northbound road was paved ; but once we had passed a junction and the track leading eastwards across to Argentina , it reverted to rutted gravel and the wind blew little spirals of dust across it , like ectoplasmic tumbleweed . |
| 6 | In 1984 the youth of the Diocese of Chipata met to discuss the story of Jesus on the road to Emmaus ( Luke 24 : 13–35 ) and ask the question , ‘ What do we talk about as we walk the path of life ? ’ |
| 7 | Out go the small birds : no longer does the song of the skylark , the flirting wheatears , or the parachuting meadow pipits greet us as we walk the moors . |
| 8 | Our pilot was said to be the best on the river , but every now and then there was a shudder as we touched a sandbank ; and there was so little water coming down from Aswan that we only squeezed through the lock at Nag Hammadi by all the passengers crowding into the bows of the Nefertari , while her crew hauled on ropes , chanting a shanty that might have been sung on the sunboats of the pharaohs . |
| 9 | As we walked a siren sounded , like a wolf-whistle caught on a scratched record … |
| 10 | As we walked the river path towards Dent a pair of curlews rose in alarm close by a pool where one autumn morning I had watched a heron fishing . |
| 11 | Despite the billing on the T-shirts we were told , as we interrupted the jouvert ( dawn fiesta ) to line up beside Scotty 's Bar , that it was 20K . |
| 12 | Madeline and I will be kept very busy over the next months as we visit the pilot centres to attend key events in their validation or approval processes . |
| 13 | Erm and I 'm responsible really for the historical side of the business , not only the all for all the furnishings and erm that kind of thing and refurbishing the house , but also for its future as we hope a living history event in the fullness of time . |
| 14 | Schoolgirl dreams evaporated as we witnessed the Bangladesh war . |
| 15 | As we confront a world where resources are clearly limited — sometimes declining — and needs ever expanding , there is an imperative to think very carefully about how we might wish to allocate resources . |
| 16 | But William Wright 's has a sort of voyeuristic interest as we follow the neglected child of the shipping tycoon from her English boarding school via her wild goings-on in St Moritz to her battle for control of her father 's business . |
| 17 | Hence , as we follow the orbit around , we oscillate between one point and the other . |
| 18 | ‘ As long as we follow the plan we are provided with there are no problems , ’ he said . |
| 19 | As we listened a cow rounded a rocky outcrop and came towards us . |
| 20 | ‘ You have only brought one teacup with you , McAllister , so we may not share the tea as we shared the coffee earlier today . ’ |
| 21 | The brain is neat , segmented , divided into two halves as we imagine the heart should obviously be . |
| 22 | A heavy swell pounded and cascaded over the broken pier at the narrow entrance as we made a hair-raising dash through to keep steerage way . |
| 23 | ‘ Where are you sleeping ? ’ she asked as we made the front door . |
| 24 | Just as we saw a few weeks ago Zaccheus was , er , between him being up the tree and hitting the ground , that man was converted . |
| 25 | It 's a cold , wet night all the way down the West coast , but as we round the Lizard , about 7:00 in , it comes on to blow hard and there 's quite a storm up the Channel until the serene sounds of Dungeness ( at 9:40 ) leading to the mysterious aleatoricism of South Foreland . |
| 26 | This was important as we recruit a number of players from there . ’ |
| 27 | As we passed a Stockton housing estate we saw a young boy who finished climbing a steep embankment just in time to throw stones at us . |
| 28 | On Sunday mornings our pace was regularly cut as we passed the animals on their way to bathe in the bay . |
| 29 | The waves seemed to increase in size as we passed the first section of headland , continuing to smash with awesome power to our right , too close to our right ! |
| 30 | He pointed out several good restaurants as we passed the magnificent Stanford shopping precinct . |