Example sentences of "[adj] as we be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A warm draught blew across the platform , one which could only be a Mediterranean breeze or synthetically produced , the latter being more likely as we were standing under a dull winter 's day in London . |
| 2 | But we you know , one was one would be boiling the the white metal , we 'd we 'd fixed on the and er one would be boiling and pouring the stuff and the other cutting y you know breaking up the the mould sort of thing and piling the stuff out and as fast as we were piling them up , some beggar was creeping in and stealing them . |
| 3 | Yes , fine , just as long as we 're going to see it . |
| 4 | I 'm happier to stand back and let him do his bit and I 'll do my bit , as long as we 're talking to each other . |
| 5 | They paraded national and military flags , recited ancient poems , sang hymns and the Polish anthem Still Poland is not lost as long as we are living . |
| 6 | Critics have argued that QALY theory is attractive as long as we are considering one person who is weighing up the likely outcomes with different treatments . |
| 7 | Well , my feeling is , and it 's really the same message that you get from most greens and most environment books , is that under-consumption , that is poverty in the poor countries , is linked to over-consumption in the rich countries , and we have to grasp this nettle — it 's one that the Conservative Party in its White Paper on the environment avoids noticeably — we have to grasp the nettle , that as long as we are over-consuming there 's not going to be enough to go round everywhere , and my book shows that this pattern is really a three hundred year old pattern dating from the first Colonial expansion of Europe and the slave trade , and it 's still going on today . |
| 8 | As long as we are sitting on God knows how many million cubic yards of best gravel at Maran Hill , I think we shall have a very kindly and attentive neighbour in Lord Wyatt . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ As long as we are winning the war , and there are victory parades and banners and speeches , the vast majority of the population is also for the war . |
| 10 | You wo n't , as far as we 're having to buy coal at that price . |
| 11 | Therefore I am entreating you most earnestly to send me those men you aught to send , well armed , as soon as possible as we are going to assemble beside Colrane and the general is to come shortly to make a muster there … [ to fight the Irish rebels ] . |
| 12 | As alive as we were dying . |
| 13 | ‘ Assuming the situation is as bad as we are hearing , we can not wait much longer , ’ said the spokesman , Commander Barry Frewer . |