Example sentences of "we [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was always smiling and greeted us most amicably as we broke our fast in the great hall . |
| 2 | As he watched , I started to drag away the old door that had served us so well as foot-stopper . |
| 3 | ‘ It was nice of your father to chase us off together as he did , ’ said Antony . |
| 4 | It was a part of becoming adult that I grew aware of the great invisible universe of personality which controls us as surely as do physical laws . |
| 5 | For this we must rely to a great extent upon Soviet goodwill and if we make difficulty over returning their own nationals it will react adversely upon their willingness to help in restoring to us as soon as possible our own prisoners . " |
| 6 | If a house-to-house or Street Collection takes place this form must be completed and returned to us as soon as possible . |
| 7 | Get your entries to us as soon as possible . |
| 8 | So I would first urge that we get that paper out to us as soon as possible . |
| 9 | I can remember the long cloudless days when we drove for mile after mile over desert that stretched out around us as flatly as an unruffled sea ; the way we would pull the throttle out so that the needle stood up straight at the figure forty , and then would laze back with our legs stretched out across the bonnet … . |
| 10 | And if you should run into difficulties repaying your overdraft , please speak to us as early as possible . |
| 11 | Since our first arrival here , their Seductive Highnesses had flirted with us as consistently as had their father ensured that we were together only during public occasions . |
| 12 | How had he managed to get us as far as that ? |
| 13 | ‘ He owns everything in front of us as far as the eye can see . ’ |
| 14 | As we sat down to the first of many repetitive meals of salted fish and ground corn , I broached the question of finding a prahu which might carry us as far as Aru . |
| 15 | They drove us as far as the mud roads would allow in the royal land-rover , and down to the bay where a pearl-oyster hatchery was being tried for the first time ; and at night there were more festivities , and endless delectable maidens vying for our attentions … |
| 16 | For this Scottish cruise the Board stayed with us as far as Tobermory on the Isle of Mull . |
| 17 | It does n't dispense with the observation of nature and it works on us as familiarly as nature itself . ’ |
| 18 | The policy of this council over the last couple of years has been to get down to that figure enforced upon us as gracefully as possible with the least damage to our services and the least damage to the morale of our staff and our staff are after all the most important asset that a local authority possesses and that is what we 're trying to consider . |
| 19 | She shared her home with Irina and me and watched over us as fiercely as if we were her own children . |
| 20 | ‘ Even if you could make her go , ’ said Anna , ‘ Ruth would return to us as quickly as she could . |
| 21 | I urge people to talk to us as quickly as possible so that we can have meaningful discussions in the EC . |
| 22 | The bargemen greeted us as formally as if we were visiting them in their own homes , which I suppose we were . |
| 23 | Please do not forget your university , come and visit us as often as you can and watch how we grow and change . |
| 24 | ‘ God meeting us no longer as ‘ Thou ’ , but also disguised in the ‘ It ’ ; so in the last resort my question is how we are to find the ‘ Thou ’ in this ‘ It , ’ ( i.e. , fate ) . |