Example sentences of "as we [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is only as we remain exiles , stay-behind agents , spies in enemy territory , that we can really learn to delight in God alone . |
| 2 | Maintaining a low profile , the Autocrat lurked a steady block behind as we walked north . |
| 3 | A natural tendency in times of recession is to batten down the hatches and look after our own needs , but as we sold raffle tickets in aid of our livestock projects in Uganda , people at the Royal certainly supported our scheme with cheerful generosity . |
| 4 | SHRINK the world with our latest pen pals ' list as we visit India , China , Canada , Japan and Kenya . |
| 5 | As we follow trajectories starting at two close-together points , we move to points with the same symbolic descriptions but with the central mark moved further and further to the right . |
| 6 | I agree Macca seems to step out of the limelight somewhat … but AS LONG AS WE WIN WHO CARES ? |
| 7 | But this steadily dissolved as we shared ideas , asked questions of one another and gave each other leads . |
| 8 | It was ironic that as we deified womanhood , we unleashed more anger , suspicion and even , I think , hatred — woman for woman — than any issue had aroused since feminism began . |
| 9 | As we set course down the first valley low stratus blocked our way , and since squeezing underneath received a thumbs-down from both pilot and passenger , we orbited and asked for an IFR clearance . |
| 10 | Later in the evening , as we sailed south along the coast several more polar bears were spotted on the mountain-sides . |
| 11 | If you think books do n't change people , just look at Changez , because undreamed-of possibilities in the sex line suddenly occurred to him , a man recently married and completely celibate who saw Britain as we saw Sweden : as the goldmine of sexual opportunity . |
| 12 | Then we can sail off on a reach in either direction just as we saw Suzanne doing . |
| 13 | As we passed Pabbay we were hit by successive heavy squalls ; the promontory toe Head would be out of the question . |
| 14 | As we passed Number 110 , I spotted Mrs Shorrocks staring at me out of the window , sporting her usual black eye and a mass of different coloured bruises which she collected from Bert most Saturday nights . |
| 15 | As we passed people stood back on either side , loud-mouthed apprentices and washerwomen in leather clogs stopping their noisy clatter and waiting for us to pass . |
| 16 | As we spent hour after hour sitting at our work-table , all curtains drawn to intensify our concentration beneath the old-fashioned fringed standard lamp , he would from time to time ease his buttocks and balls , pulling and tugging on the firm seams of the taut , well-worn jeans or the well-rubbed brown needle cords , scratching and stroking himself idly , as if unselfconsciously in the most private places with those delicate fingers with the bitten nails and his big , warm palms . |
| 17 | For many years her models were the painters of her native France , and as we spent time in Provence this was a wonderful place for her to work . |
| 18 | I did like the smells ; drifts of Johnson 's baby shampoo wafting from her hair and mine , the beachy , balmy smell in my face as we ascended Elderberry Road , that persevering odour of fresh tar and suntan oil . |
| 19 | However , half-a-thumb's-length beyond it ( roughly two minutes at 75kts ) is another very distinctive marker point , a 300ft mast reaching to over 700ft amsl ( L ) which we can use to back-confirm our time over the half-way point as we pass south abeam it . |
| 20 | We speak as we hear speech . |
| 21 | Large caves guarded by huge icicles , some fifteen feet tall , sheltered us from the wind as we ate lunch and did some more pondering . |
| 22 | It uses sound to perceive , and continuously update its perception of , the position of objects in three-dimensional space , just as we use light . |
| 23 | Half past two on a Wednesday afternoon on Trent F M as we join Rachel at the Careline . |
| 24 | There were a lot a lot involved there er and some of you actually found that that there was quite a lot that you really had to almost worry about and think about and and er yesterday for the first time of doing it with this this new method it does take quite a bit of thinking about and as we agreed practice is is what 's what 's important .. |
| 25 | As long as we got loads of money its ok to sell all our players and be a rich 4th division side . |
| 26 | As long as we got loads of money its ok to sell all our players and be a rich 4th division side . |
| 27 | Percy Lubbock , at the end of The Craft of Fiction , acknowledged that as soon as we have finished reading a novel we begin to forget it , and what is left to talk about is a vague cloud of fading impressions : ‘ the book vanishes as we lay hands on it . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ That was the best ever , ’ she gasped as we lay side by side , our arms and hips touching lightly . |
| 29 | Below , in Chapters 5 and 7 , we enlarge on what we have said here , as we make suggestions about how to present references in footnotes and booklists appended to your essay or dissertation . |
| 30 | The amount reduces , of course , as we move away from the equator , and as we interrupt proceedings with nightfall and cloud . |