Example sentences of "as we [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of that almost-lost flavour can still be savoured in books like William Lutton 's ‘ Montiaghisms ’ ( 1923 , but compiled 80 or 90 years earlier ) , P W Joyce 's English as we speak it in Ireland ’ ( 1910 ) or , more recently , T G F Paterson 's Country Cracks ’ ( 1939 ) . |
| 2 | When we reached Dunkil we could have done two things , we could have said to the Bible class , We had a marvellous journey up and told them all about the glory of God as we saw him in the mountains , or we could have said , We almost had an accident on our way up here . |
| 3 | We can test this if we compare the human character of Jesus to our own personalities , as we saw them in chapter one . |
| 4 | We tried to explain the situation as we saw it to the police . |
| 5 | He said nothing as we climbed the stairs , but he did n't switch the lights on as we passed them on the landing . |
| 6 | As we passed them on the road we glimpsed great crowds of people in the wide back seats , a jumble of merry faces at the windows . |
| 7 | The results are often appalling if we are not able to unload stress as we receive it by letting our feelings out . |
| 8 | Among the more important qualities of water as we receive it from our supply sources are its pH and its hardness . |
| 9 | Sir John asked as we warmed ourselves before the great fire whilst Lady Beatrice and Rachel served spiced wine . |
| 10 | We invite you to join us as we join them in their endless search for peace . |
| 11 | We should be in the habit of asking questions of ourselves as much as we ask them of others . |
| 12 | As we ask it in your name for your glory . |
| 13 | Oh Lord we as offer ourselves to you , we think of those who have been unable to be with us today for whatever reason , some on holiday , and we just pray for your blessing to be with each one , and to be with all of as we ask it in your name for your praise and glory . |
| 14 | ‘ As soon as we got him to a doctor — which took some time — it was discovered that Major Maxim must have held the ammonia under our man 's nose while pouring some odourless spirit — quite possibly strong vodka — onto the blindfold in order to produce the stinging sensation . ’ |
| 15 | The carpet sucked the soles of our shoes as we followed him through a drunken , grasping audience towards a small dressing room to the left of the stage , upon which Tanya was enjoying bananas for dessert . |
| 16 | The work has been quite hard , actually little short of the 24 hours ' teaching a week which I originally feared we might have to teach , but it 's a pity not to offer the course as we prepared it in Peking , complete with extra lectures , as there seems to be a great demand for anything we teach , which is understandable considering that it 's a chance of a lifetime for some of the teachers ; in fact , some have never spoken to a foreigner in their lives before ! |
| 17 | As we put her into the chair , she opened her eyes . |
| 18 | ‘ Spotty backs are caused when grease glands become blocked as we wrap ourselves in man-made fibres that inhibit air circulation . |
| 19 | This is probably acceptable so long as we restrict ourselves to a single group , like mammals , but there is some dissent when people seek to extrapolate mechanisms from non-vertebrate species , like molluscs , to the mammalian brain ( e.g. Hawkins and Kandel 1984 ) . |
| 20 | We perceive things as we know them to be , not necessarily as they are . |
| 21 | The laws of science , as we know them at present , contain many fundamental numbers , like the size of the electric charge of the electron and the ratio of the masses of the proton and the electron . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'll start with the facts as far as we know them at the moment . ’ |
| 23 | However , as we know them in the modern world , there are virtually no middle classes in 1700 . |
| 24 | Without the oxygen produced from water by green plants , life as we know it on this planet would be impossible . |
| 25 | The constructivist thesis , it is argued , is not relevant because mental representations have not been defined away and replaced by talk of actions : we still have to say how mental life as we know it to be , with the representational character that we naturally give to it , relates to neuronal life . |
| 26 | The fact that this is indeed found to be the case powerfully corroborates the theory of development being advanced in these pages and demonstrates that the apparent absence of the latency phenomenon as we know it among primitive people like the Australian aborigines is no proof of the falsity of the idea of latency as such . |
| 27 | Yet satellite television is revolutionising entertainment as we know it in Britain today — the trouble is sometimes it sounds as if you need a first class degree to join in ! |
| 28 | The recognition that all men are equal in the sight of God is fundamental to liberty as we know it in modern Western societies . |
| 29 | Although there were thousands of lesser and hundreds of brown noddies on Cousin in October , it can not be easy to assess the population size , because with no positive ‘ summer season ’ as we know it in the temperate zones , many birds can be found breeding almost throughout the year . |
| 30 | It is true that there is a distinction between art as it is used develop mentally in schools and art as we know it in the world , but for most people is n't art what we knew it as in school ? |