Example sentences of "[adv prt] as we [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At our local market I stocked up on walnuts , satsumas and last-minute presents of leather goods , then on Christmas Day the sun blazed down as we tucked into a roast chicken and raised glasses of cheap local champagne . |
| 2 | The sun blazed down as we followed narrow paths through the ling . |
| 3 | One reason for this is that our metabolic rate slows down as we age . |
| 4 | ‘ Some bands went down as we watched , ’ said Manchester trading standards officer Ian Simpson . |
| 5 | Not only so be the monitor progress in the work so we do n't get ourselves bogged down as we have done before and not managing to carry out the work that 's needed . |
| 6 | The fighting in our immediate area seemed to have quietened down as we handed over the prisoners to join , I would think , about a couple of hundred , all gathered together in a field close to the orchard . |
| 7 | You might get a bit crumpled from here on in as we 've seen our last hotel for a bit . |
| 8 | Are we simply to chuck out these extra six constituencies and say no to the French , we 're not going to agree to extra silly expenditure or are we in fact going to cave in as we 've done so often . |
| 9 | So as far as this meeting 's concerned , erm , most of our meetings are basically business meetings , but we , we have tried and we will try to put in speakers and , and do different things from time to time , we had er , er a woman last time who 'd been to Central America recently and she gave us a very interesting talk on a visit to El Salvador and Guatamala , erm , and we , we 'd like to do that more often , but , but what we do really erm , to begin with any rate , is we go th we go through the , the headings on this sheet , on the , on the minutes , we use them as headings for others and erm , items on the agenda and er some may have more to say than others and there are one or two not on there which we 'll pop in as we go along . |
| 10 | ‘ If we get in front we wo n't make the same mistake of lying back and letting them in as we did in Belfast , ’ said captain and centre back Alan McDonald ( Queens Park Rangers ) . |
| 11 | This , then , is the state we are in as we approach the 1990s . |
| 12 | These stages can be seen as centres of psychic concentration , phases of emphasis that , in ‘ normal ’ development , are passed through as we progress to being mature , integrated people . |
| 13 | But the excitement of adventure took over as we prepared Faith 's 1954 Tri-Pacer . |
| 14 | The main road begins to level off as we pass through Quinta Grande and Campanário , before descending into Ribeira Brava ( 31 km ) . |
| 15 | Mosquitoes buzz around people 's heads at night because they are drawn to the carbon dioxide which we give off as we breathe . |
| 16 | ‘ My wife and I are not badly off as we have the state pension , my police pension , and a police civil staff pension . |
| 17 | Sort of things we can tick off as we need them . |
| 18 | We often make a careful list which we check off as we finish each item . |
| 19 | The goose was sitting on eggs and flew off as we approached . |
| 20 | £60m paid off as we save for rainy day |
| 21 | We often make a careful list which we check off as we do each job . |
| 22 | A dozen shags and a cormorant are perched on a stack nearby and , as usual , the cormorant is the first to ‘ chicken out ’ and fly off as we approach . |
| 23 | Chris and I delivered the display , which the ITN graphics department had made up as we waited . |
| 24 | Even the insects could n't keep up as we shot down Mount Cedric like a beer down the throat of a thirsty All Black rugby player . |
| 25 | That I 've put down , erm , anybody added it up as we 've gone along ? |
| 26 | Just making it up as we went along . |
| 27 | New pieces continue to arrive , as subject working parties report and orders are made : but there is a strong sense that the master picture is being made up as we go along . |
| 28 | Well I think we can arrange to pick you up as we go at that time , you 'll of eh , because I know that bus passes do n't cover that . |
| 29 | We 'll make that up as we go along . |
| 30 | He did n't look up as we crossed the room , his head bent and the pen moving swiftly across pages held in a clipboard . |