Example sentences of "we [verb] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | But coming back , we moved again as I say and it was in the er winter . |
| 2 | We trained hard as well but the snow stopped us from doing too much off-road riding . |
| 3 | We arrived just as the first eggs were hatching . |
| 4 | What happens is that we begin well as Christians as we remember our past clearly . |
| 5 | Sometime between 1806 and 1813 the twisting action we know today as remuage evolved , but it was the angled cut of the holes as much as the twisting motion which provided the key to the solution sought by the widow . |
| 6 | Three , four years ago the seeds of what we know today as desktop publishing were being sown by companies like Xerox , Interleaf , Sun and Apollo . |
| 7 | The discovery of a Thomas Barton harpsichords throws fresh light on the scribbled information in the Talbot Manuscript taken from an instrument we know only as ‘ Jenny 's harpsichord ’ The stringing list is almost identical . |
| 8 | so that we got , cos say you have a lot of holidays , so that when we get there as I say we ai n't got ta go out and shop and get stuff , we 've got bacon and egg |
| 9 | By the stage we define broadly as intermediate , learners are some way towards developing control of the language they are learning : their store of language has grown to a point where they can adapt , adjust and add to it with some facility ; they can transfer language use from one context to another ; they are building up more complex networks of language and the work we do in the classroom at this level is similarly more complex and less controlled . |
| 10 | Throughout the 60s we watched incredulously as the HVS category bulged evermore lopsidedly as these great pioneers stuffed it with their goodies — Wombat , Carnage , Macabre , Vagabond , Sundance Wall — today as touch a collection of E points as you 'll find anywhere . |
| 11 | The nuts were always available for the little animals but we watched intently as the farmer poured the milk into the buckets and the calves started to drink . |
| 12 | She is a lovely lady as well as a great physio , and we chatted away as she worked on my legs . |
| 13 | We smile nicely as he is our host for the day . |
| 14 | With this new resource column we proceed exactly as above . |
| 15 | Because I find that er I can talk to people now , we chat away as I would in a pub , or in someone 's house but then this is the bit that worries me . |
| 16 | We rolled heavily as I clung to the shrouds scanning the reef as best I could . |
| 17 | We reap exactly as we sow . ’ |
| 18 | But if we go ahead as planned , then Miranda will own forty-five per cent — a minority holding — and after acquiring her shares , and taking up your rights issue , you will own thirty per cent . ’ |
| 19 | So we went ahead as planned : Beryl , Cathy Carne — you 've met Cathy ? |
| 20 | ‘ We leave here as arranged on Saturday morning . |
| 21 | I mean er we did alright as well but |
| 22 | When we talk about it ( now all too common in public ) , we do so as though it had set fast , even for a moment , in some way . |
| 23 | Erm , on software we said we said we had to add that into our procedures anyhow , last , on our last year view meeting , did n't we , which is what we 've done and we 've also as of today set up a system of logging new software coming in and signing it . |
| 24 | We 've just as I 've just said , we 've just finished reorganising our department . |
| 25 | I thought it was quite expensive the last time we wrote there as well . |
| 26 | We waited anxiously as reports came in of 97-mph gales in the Pennines but thankfully the spire remained firm . |
| 27 | And you 've got to try and relate this back to the areas as we have now as we now understand them . |
| 28 | We may seek out partners incapable of loving us in the way we need so as to experience again the brief hope that this time it will be all right or as Lisa Minelli sang in the film Cabaret , ‘ This time I 'll be lucky ’ , before the pain sweeps in again to overwhelm us . |
| 29 | Our guide Sam gave us very clear instructions — he did n't need to emphasise how important it was for us to do exactly as he said . |
| 30 | The British could leave and half India would n't notice us leaving just as they did n't notice us arriving . |