Example sentences of "as we [verb] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such a view is certainly too simplistic , as we hope to show by considering some experimental work in which ‘ the topic ’ was treated as the equivalent of a title . |
| 2 | Humbly we will ask God to make us great in simplicity and obedience , as we seek to bring to birth a human society in which it is normal for men to love one another . |
| 3 | ‘ Now if you 'll give Cook a hand I 'd be very grateful , ’ Mollie said as we fell exhausted against the banisters at the bottom of the stairs . |
| 4 | WE can get rid of Trident missiles just as we got rid of cruise missiles . |
| 5 | . He was a cabinet maker and er then the boss and we just all sort of worked You know sometimes we had a quite a lot of work going and other times we would n't have anything and other times you were standing waiting doing nothing , waiting in the job g coming for the cabinet makers who would send through legs , something to get started just as long as we got started to work , maybe it was in a hurry . |
| 6 | Let's improvise something , as we 'd done on those remarkable nights six years ago . |
| 7 | So I gave you a topic sport or a hobby or an interest that you had and you produced a thought pattern for that just as we 'd done in the practice one with the subject of water , but then we moved on a stage further to get what are called a structured thought pattern . |
| 8 | I let that one go as we 'd got to the bathroom and I opened the door and stood to one side to let them in . |
| 9 | The expiry date loomed as we prepared to go to court , but to our relief Wedgwood agreed a three-year extension in recognition of the work we had done . |
| 10 | She unhooked her cloak collar as we had to wait at the outer door of Marcus whilst two porters wheeled out an empty accident trolley . |
| 11 | No one spoke as we approached them , but as soon as we had gone by , a voice said , ‘ How 'd you like to be turned out of your home , Missus ? ’ |
| 12 | In fact such contact as we had consisted of nothing but bad feeling on one side ( his ) and bemusement on mine . |
| 13 | I think it still is the way forward and I do n't think it was so much that things went wrong as that they did n't go as well as we had hoped for the women elections to the shadow cabinet . |
| 14 | As we had referred to Turkey and the fact that Margaret and I had met there , and as we knew he took great interest in genuine peasant culture , we showed him some Turkish embroidery and in particular two typical Turkish saddle-bags , which we had transformed into cushions . |
| 15 | We had some very , very moving speeches yesterday , as we had had at previous meetings , which made it quite clear that a few pounds were vital and crucial to people 's lives , so we thought it was a a gesture that was worth making , and I have to say that probably our group also includes people on , as members , as Councillors , who are themselves on income support , so it was a move which was n't without it 's personal difficulties for us either . |
| 16 | This was our first note of encouragement and we were thankful for it , as we had come to the Island on a delicate mission and we needed support . |
| 17 | Evening courses were arranged on all sorts of subjects , which we as shift workers were unfortunately not able to take advantage of fully , as we had to work during the evenings . |
| 18 | ‘ The results were much as we had expected in an extremely tough year , ’ said Mr Heath yesterday . |
| 19 | ‘ You will see me tomorrow , ’ he answered , and we shook hands as we had taken to doing . |
| 20 | We can be locked into the ritual just as we become locked into a dance sequence once we have entered upon it . |
| 21 | Lind believes that as we become sensitized to a particular quality or relationship so attentive focus comes to oscillate amongst all the similar proximate elements . |
| 22 | And now , as we 've quarrelled like this , I ca n't very well take your milk and butter , can I ? |
| 23 | And the idea is that as we 've done with previous erm , discussions , if each one could come along armed with some information to do with healthy eating , erm , there 's a list on page a hundred and seventeen , that might start you off thinking . |
| 24 | What is likely to happen of course is that er in the year two thousand and ten when we do need these fast reactors , we 'll be buying in French or Japanese technology as we 've done in many other areas which is all rather sad really . |
| 25 | well my thoughts had cristalized that we would have to change the direction of er , we communicating with them as we 've done in the past , we could n't just use adverts that we might have used regional in a regional press , we had to pick out the point , in the , in the actual article so that four example there were six or seven points that had clearly been made , statements that had been made , I had to devise a scheme then , er , it was only a scheme in my thinking that actually , I had to devise a scheme that would pick up each of these points encounter them , now there was no way I could simply take an advert out and say , they said this , we say that because that would have had no credibility , so what I was thinking at that time is how we might be able to use some other form of being able to counter those six or seven points and I started to come up with an idea perhaps using a third party , because in our business , third party recommendation are very , very powerful and when selling to the elderly because they do not take , I 'm sorry , they take a long time to come to a decision , they mull over it and such like , they take a lot of influence from people , take advise from family , accountants , solicitors , bank managers and such like , so the idea of having a third party in a sense recommend then would have allowed us to get over those particular points , so that 's what was germinating in my mind at the time |
| 26 | Or rather , about how to try to tell it : since whether any such action of yours succeeds in doing what you want ( giving your tellee a true belief ) will depend as we 've seen on the truth of the beliefs which you also need in order to make you undertake that action . |
| 27 | As we 've seen with Terry in Brookside . |
| 28 | This paper only gives erm an , what is called an integrated pollution inspectorate , now unfortunately with those sort of central inspectorates is that after the public 's attention has drifted on , they tend to be erm , they tend to dwindle in numbers , as we 've seen with the present pollution inspectorate . |
| 29 | We need the theory concept behind the method and we need to build in that people can think , digest , analyze , because as we 've seen by nature most of us have higher reflector scores than we do the pragmatist and the reflector are higher than the theorists and the activists all have a tendency . |
| 30 | Now I think that the concern that erm I have , and it 's shared by colleagues I have to say at both County and at er District Council level , is that none of those will really fully provide a proper strategic planning service and therefore the , the , the threat to proper forward planning of a coordinated nature across a wider area of land such as is er currently taking place in Sussex , West Sussex and other counties and which is desperately needed as we 've seen in the context of the flooding that we 've just been talking about , that is in er great danger of being undermined and the alternatives that the government is , is putting forward would in my view not go anywhere at all towards meeting the needs of strategic planning . |