Example sentences of "to we [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | A woman was driving and she parked beside our land-cruiser , nodding to us briefly as she stepped out onto the road and flung a series of questions at the Indian , half in Spanish and half in a more guttural tongue , which I took to be Quechua . |
| 2 | They read our body language better than we do ourselves , and signal to us just as they would to each other . |
| 3 | Such practice appears to us now as rigid , authoritarian and unimaginative . |
| 4 | He adduces some non-musical reasons ( the plague of Thomas Nashe 's London in 1592 has 400 years later a qualitative and psychological , if not numerical , counterpart ) , but the score itself speaks to us now as perhaps it did not manage to do in its own time , when for ‘ significant ’ and profound modernity people looked towards composers who made a more assertive break with tradition . |
| 5 | To pass beyond it is to cross the threshold into another dimension which , for all its pragmatic gifts to the West over the centuries , remains as mysteriously little-known to us now as it was for the first explorers . |
| 6 | Each time we went for another animal all those left howled and fought their chains to get close to us so as not to be left behind . |