Example sentences of "as we have [vb pp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Taylor said : ‘ Lawrie spoke to Alex and as we had lost David Batty we were quite short in mid-field . |
| 2 | The next morning we had to pack up and leave , as we had made reservations to visit the other Cayman Islands before returning home . |
| 3 | After arrival at the capital of Reykjavik we watched in some trepidation as our heavily laden Landrover was swung out on a derrick and deposited on the quay , but all went well and as soon as we had cleared customs we set out to take a look at this bright little capital city . |
| 4 | As soon as we had cleared customs he made for a bank of telephones , and when he rejoined me he was smiling . |
| 5 | Speaking of Deano — everyone I talked felt that as we had paid £2.7 million for a centre forward would n't it be nice if hung around near the goal or in the box for that matter instead of running all over the show and when we finally get the ball in the box there 's nobody there . |
| 6 | He was sixty-four now , and no doubt tired , but as soon as we had finished tea he said , " We 'll go down to the river and you can try for a salmon . " |
| 7 | There was no reason in terms of a a , a military position why you should n't have introduced land reform in , in the way that going through and you are moving into an area where as we 've seen landlordism was at its |
| 8 | The Conservatives in Wales have actually taken this principal much further they do n't only allow overseas voters to participate in Welsh elections , they actually encourage them to become chairmen of our quangos as well as we 've got David Robeddow chairman of Conservatives abroad in Monte Carlo i if the panel out . |
| 9 | Yeah , yeah we can go up as soon as we 've finished tea . |
| 10 | My friends , let's just remember this night that as we 've shared bread and wine together , we 've reaffirmed that Jesus Christ gave his life so that we might live . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's eight o'clock , and as soon as we 've had breakfast we 'll be on our way . ’ |
| 12 | As President , it has been a privilege to serve the membership and I have enjoyed , immensely , the hospitality and courtesy extended to my wife , Elizabeth , and myself as we have visited branches . |
| 13 | ‘ We have rejected quality in expression , just as we have rejected quality in the buildings in which we work and educate . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ We have rejected quality in expression , just as we have rejected quality in the buildings in which we work and educate . ’ |
| 15 | As we have seen Nonconformists benefited greatly from rising standards of living and the movement to the suburbs . |
| 16 | Thus as we have seen Darwin pulled a plank out from under the creation stories . |
| 17 | As we have seen Kenneth Macpherson had felt that the earlier films had been awful but nevertheless he suspected that ‘ the people got in some dim way the fact that here was something growing under their eyes ’ , that the movies had ‘ a sense of life and expectancy ’ . |
| 18 | No doubt Sergeant Blatchford and Lieutenant-General Baden-Powell would have found much to argue about — not least the question of full-time socialist agitators — but here was agreement of sorts , although as we have seen Baden-Powell was more inclined to smuggle in militarism behind fresh air philosophies , nature study and the smoke of jolly camp fires . |
| 19 | In most cases of detinue there would be a concurrent liability in conversion based upon a demand and refusal to return but as we have seen conversion required a positive act and had never lain where the defendant once had the plaintiff 's goods but was unable to return them because they had been lost or negligently destroyed . |
| 20 | There is now ( as we have seen Tiger and Fox recognising ) a wealth of anthropological data on the evolution of man as a conceptualising , language-using animal . |
| 21 | The Commission also considered the obligations of the state to the citizen , a subject which as we have seen advocates of active citizenship have tended to neglect . |
| 22 | Whatever we want from our lives now — the Booker Prize , a recording contract , a promotion , a Porsche convertible , the girl at the Virgin Megastore checkout desk — we can not possibly have coveted it for as long as we have cherished dreams of football glory , dreams which have remained fundamentally unchanged since childhood . |
| 23 | Part of the problem is , of course , that Kant 's claim that animals lack self-consciousness , implicit also in Ritchie , finds no favour with contemporary enthusiasts ; on the contrary , as we have had reason to note on several occasions , the liberationists depict creatures with so many human attributes that it is almost surprising to find them denied full moral agency . |
| 24 | We will commence our work as soon as we have had confirmation of these terms from you . |