Example sentences of "as we [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Pushing and shoving among that lot , no fear , ’ I said as we struck out for the woods . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'd just like you to understand the problems we have … we do the best we can , ’ sighs Soliz as we walk back to the bus stop . |
| 3 | As we walked on to the jetty , I was watching carefully to make sure none of my trunks was left on board . |
| 4 | As we walked off towards the car park , a woman 's voice shouted my name . |
| 5 | As we walked in through the door Kalchu looked up from his food and said in a worried voice , ‘ Where 's your karaso , sister ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ He 's entered in a race at Worcester the day after tomorrow , ’ Tremayne said as we walked out to the yard at seven in the half-dawn . |
| 7 | I did n't 'ave all this handed on a plate , ’ he said as we walked out into the backyard . |
| 8 | ‘ Last year , ’ said Kāli , as we walked along behind the houses , ‘ Mother and one or two other women started before the forest was officially opened — before ban pasāi — and people were so angry that they made the women 's husbands go to the headman and pay a fine of five rupees each . ’ |
| 9 | He was pin high to the left of the flag and the crowd was stamping and cheering as we walked down to the green . |
| 10 | Instead , as we walked down to the bar this evening , he had been all smiles and indulgent gallantry , complimenting us on our appearance , an arm lightly circling each of our waists . |
| 11 | As we walked down towards the community centre they all stopped off somewhere to steal some cymbals . |
| 12 | As we walked back down the track , the nightingale was still singing . |
| 13 | ‘ Her name is Shinko , ’ he told me happily as we walked back to the flat . |
| 14 | As we walked back to the dispensary he asked me , almost casually , yet in a way trying to find out how much I knew , ‘ Tell me , what 's the extent of your knowledge of polio ? ’ |
| 15 | I protested as we walked back to the flat . |
| 16 | And then , as we drifted back to the ship after a placid midday meal , a shadow darkened our cheerful day . |
| 17 | As we pull out of the drive , we catch a parting view of the king once more at his castle . |
| 18 | ‘ Listen and feel as we pull back into the slow lane . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Useful , ye see , ’ Ward said as we went through to the baggage claim area . |
| 20 | As we went out through the kitchen door , I dropped my talcum powder and things and stood to one side , towards the window-sill , as if I was looking to see where they 'd gone . |
| 21 | As we went out towards the stables I heard Sir Edmund whisper to Santerre that the matters at Templecombe were beyond his brief : he would plan his return to London where he would advise the King to send Justices into the area . |
| 22 | The play was necessarily a matinee , and as we went down past the Albert Hall a siren did go . |
| 23 | I thought about running along beside him as we came up to the main road opposite the church , about his taking my hand and singing , ‘ Hold my hand — I 'm a stranger in paradise ! ’ |
| 24 | Tommaso appeared as we came in from the street , hamming it up just the way I remembered . |
| 25 | But we also had the attendant holding the door for us as we came out of the changing room because the wind was threatening to tear it off its hinges , as well as relentlessly trying to move the deep end up to the shallow end . |
| 26 | As we set out in the truck which was going to take us the eight miles to Oakington , I was conscious that for once I was really looking my absolute best . |
| 27 | There was nothing more to see in Main Street except the eternal fascination of boats bobbing in water as we set off past the ship 's chandler — and behind , as casually as an oak or a beech tree in England , dozens of the orange trees which had given the town of Anani its name . |
| 28 | All through my teens it had to be a very rainy Sunday indeed that did not find us perched on the Cow and Calf a crop of murderous rocks resembling neither cows , calves nor any other animal , ' or out at Bolton Abbey , negotiating the stepping-stones across the wide but shallow Wharfe ; or eating our sandwiches on Haworth Moor as we looked down on the Brontes ' parsonage and re-enacted the highlights from Wuthering Heights in our romantic young heads . |
| 29 | As we looked out of the shattered window and across the field opposite to where the Corporal was pointing , another burst of fire hit the house . |
| 30 | The day before our return , as we looked out over the battlements , we saw a succession of thick black clouds driving slowly in over the sand flats and camel grass . |