Example sentences of "as we [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Pushing and shoving among that lot , no fear , ’ I said as we struck out for the woods . |
| 2 | As we walked on to the jetty , I was watching carefully to make sure none of my trunks was left on board . |
| 3 | As we walked off towards the car park , a woman 's voice shouted my name . |
| 4 | As we walked in through the door Kalchu looked up from his food and said in a worried voice , ‘ Where 's your karaso , sister ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ He 's entered in a race at Worcester the day after tomorrow , ’ Tremayne said as we walked out to the yard at seven in the half-dawn . |
| 6 | I did n't 'ave all this handed on a plate , ’ he said as we walked out into the backyard . |
| 7 | ‘ Last year , ’ said Kāli , as we walked along behind the houses , ‘ Mother and one or two other women started before the forest was officially opened — before ban pasāi — and people were so angry that they made the women 's husbands go to the headman and pay a fine of five rupees each . ’ |
| 8 | He was pin high to the left of the flag and the crowd was stamping and cheering as we walked down to the green . |
| 9 | Instead , as we walked down to the bar this evening , he had been all smiles and indulgent gallantry , complimenting us on our appearance , an arm lightly circling each of our waists . |
| 10 | As we walked down towards the community centre they all stopped off somewhere to steal some cymbals . |
| 11 | As we walked back down the track , the nightingale was still singing . |
| 12 | ‘ Her name is Shinko , ’ he told me happily as we walked back to the flat . |
| 13 | As we walked back to the dispensary he asked me , almost casually , yet in a way trying to find out how much I knew , ‘ Tell me , what 's the extent of your knowledge of polio ? ’ |
| 14 | I protested as we walked back to the flat . |
| 15 | And then , as we drifted back to the ship after a placid midday meal , a shadow darkened our cheerful day . |
| 16 | ‘ Useful , ye see , ’ Ward said as we went through to the baggage claim area . |
| 17 | As we went out through the kitchen door , I dropped my talcum powder and things and stood to one side , towards the window-sill , as if I was looking to see where they 'd gone . |
| 18 | As we went out towards the stables I heard Sir Edmund whisper to Santerre that the matters at Templecombe were beyond his brief : he would plan his return to London where he would advise the King to send Justices into the area . |
| 19 | The play was necessarily a matinee , and as we went down past the Albert Hall a siren did go . |
| 20 | I thought about running along beside him as we came up to the main road opposite the church , about his taking my hand and singing , ‘ Hold my hand — I 'm a stranger in paradise ! ’ |
| 21 | Tommaso appeared as we came in from the street , hamming it up just the way I remembered . |
| 22 | But we also had the attendant holding the door for us as we came out of the changing room because the wind was threatening to tear it off its hinges , as well as relentlessly trying to move the deep end up to the shallow end . |
| 23 | All through my teens it had to be a very rainy Sunday indeed that did not find us perched on the Cow and Calf a crop of murderous rocks resembling neither cows , calves nor any other animal , ' or out at Bolton Abbey , negotiating the stepping-stones across the wide but shallow Wharfe ; or eating our sandwiches on Haworth Moor as we looked down on the Brontes ' parsonage and re-enacted the highlights from Wuthering Heights in our romantic young heads . |
| 24 | As we looked out of the shattered window and across the field opposite to where the Corporal was pointing , another burst of fire hit the house . |
| 25 | The day before our return , as we looked out over the battlements , we saw a succession of thick black clouds driving slowly in over the sand flats and camel grass . |
| 26 | Later on , as we relaxed back at the refuge , our peace was shattered by the guardian informing us we were forbidden to eat , cook , or sleep on the terrace . |
| 27 | As we passed out of the bar it was raining again and all Madrid 's lights were swimming before my eyes , reflected on the street . |
| 28 | An hour or so later I was beginning to feel proud of our levels of determination and achievement as we topped out over the last sand dune , then my heart sank into my boots ! |
| 29 | Herds of giraffe and waterbuck raced across the swamps in our shadow as we swooped on to the sandy airstrip . |
| 30 | And as we got up into the classes we also had a woodwork er centre , and metal shop there . |