Example sentences of "as we [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from that , as we watchmen say , all was as well as could be expected . |
| 2 | The glorious colours of the Painted Desert are produced by the same sort of red and green " marls " as we Europeans have in our Keuper . |
| 3 | ‘ Never on a Sunday , la la la , tara ra , ti dumpty dumpty dummm , ’ we chanted as we conga 'd our way round Claro . |
| 4 | He would cast doubt on the words of the note for which there was now only ‘ secondary evidence , as we lawyers would say ’ . |
| 5 | As we reorient our lives away from ourselves and towards God , we discover that we are oriented towards joy , happiness and well-being . |
| 6 | Worldly-wise and diverting in its tendency to offer a recipe for faijoada completa and the protocol for French deer hunting within a few paragraphs , the novel poses the same difficulty that plagues the protagonist : as we Americans put it , we miss the forest for the trees . ’ |
| 7 | One day she 'll meet a swan who stands its ground ( or should I say ‘ sits its water ’ ? ) instead of just paddling disdainfully away from the natatorial hound , and that , as we country-folk say , will larn her something proper . |
| 8 | I had visions of myself repeating everything 3 times to my clients in a high squeaky voice as we mums tend to do ! |
| 9 | As we gardeners know , a very high percentage of gardens are now tended this way . |
| 10 | Despite a rather poor performance ‘ on the field ’ ( as we sportsmen say ) the club 's parent company last week reported a £810,000 profit in the last six months , an improvement over last year 's £2m loss . |
| 11 | You must allow that children are small , courageous people who have to deal every day with a multitude of problems , just as we adults do , and that they are unprepared for most things , and what they most yearn for is a bit of truth somewhere . |
| 12 | There has been a possibility of my doing the Soldier 's Tale here in December , but it is still very much en l'air , as we balletists would put it — so do n't get excited yet . ’ |
| 13 | Or as we English put it rather more euphoniously : the wood for the trees . |
| 14 | had bulged across the lane as we free-wheeled down |
| 15 | peerie wyes , owsin as we god . |
| 16 | His stage set , along with the thumping music , flashing lights , and dry-ice clouds that go with it , had just come in from Scotland , and was due to head south as soon as we television camp-followers had done our reports in front of it . |
| 17 | But plants do not think , as we humans do ; they are not inwardly connected to akash . |
| 18 | Those species of whale which feed deep beneath the waves , frequently possess weak sight , just as we humans possess pretty weak hearing and smelling , comparatively speaking . |
| 19 | And yet again my mother used to go with him to deliver ba other babies as you know herself as we as we sort of grew up and we were off her hands . |
| 20 | Erm I think the main story as we sort of lead off from the , from the news release is saying that essentially erm our interpretation of the results is that the r the recovery has spread erm to all regions of the economy , at least in terms of orders erm and in terms of the mainland erm economy including Northern Ireland but I 'll go into more details on that in a moment . |
| 21 | We should all be exercising , even when we do it badly , even when we cut a ridiculous figure as we job along , puffing and panting . |
| 22 | I spent many hours contemplating ( as we fishkeepers do ) the fact that I would like an extra pond to separate my goldfish from the Koi . |