Example sentences of "as we [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hung a left and wondered about the driver 's door which parted company with us as we struck a portside wall . |
| 2 | As we parked the car we saw someone being carried off the path into an ambulance — the attendant was n't kidding . |
| 3 | For a few miles , as we hugged the shore of the Strait , the northbound road was paved ; but once we had passed a junction and the track leading eastwards across to Argentina , it reverted to rutted gravel and the wind blew little spirals of dust across it , like ectoplasmic tumbleweed . |
| 4 | In 1984 the youth of the Diocese of Chipata met to discuss the story of Jesus on the road to Emmaus ( Luke 24 : 13–35 ) and ask the question , ‘ What do we talk about as we walk the path of life ? ’ |
| 5 | Our pilot was said to be the best on the river , but every now and then there was a shudder as we touched a sandbank ; and there was so little water coming down from Aswan that we only squeezed through the lock at Nag Hammadi by all the passengers crowding into the bows of the Nefertari , while her crew hauled on ropes , chanting a shanty that might have been sung on the sunboats of the pharaohs . |
| 6 | As we walked a siren sounded , like a wolf-whistle caught on a scratched record … |
| 7 | As we walked the river path towards Dent a pair of curlews rose in alarm close by a pool where one autumn morning I had watched a heron fishing . |
| 8 | Despite the billing on the T-shirts we were told , as we interrupted the jouvert ( dawn fiesta ) to line up beside Scotty 's Bar , that it was 20K . |
| 9 | Madeline and I will be kept very busy over the next months as we visit the pilot centres to attend key events in their validation or approval processes . |
| 10 | As we confront a world where resources are clearly limited — sometimes declining — and needs ever expanding , there is an imperative to think very carefully about how we might wish to allocate resources . |
| 11 | Hence , as we follow the orbit around , we oscillate between one point and the other . |
| 12 | ‘ As long as we follow the plan we are provided with there are no problems , ’ he said . |
| 13 | As we listened a cow rounded a rocky outcrop and came towards us . |
| 14 | ‘ You have only brought one teacup with you , McAllister , so we may not share the tea as we shared the coffee earlier today . ’ |
| 15 | The brain is neat , segmented , divided into two halves as we imagine the heart should obviously be . |
| 16 | This was important as we recruit a number of players from there . ’ |
| 17 | As we passed a Stockton housing estate we saw a young boy who finished climbing a steep embankment just in time to throw stones at us . |
| 18 | As we passed the dam , a little snow lay on the shingle plains and the rivers were a mere shadow of their former selves . |
| 19 | There was the sound of a T.V. programme as we passed the entrance to the first-floor flat ; on the ground floor all was quiet . |
| 20 | The face has always had a dialectical relationship to art and , today perhaps , this is stronger than ever as we view the face — in portraiture — with a scepticism characteristic of our age and as we witness the convergence of popular culture and fine art in so many spheres . |
| 21 | Just so long as we maintain the candidacy . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ As soon as we spotted the advertisement for the lighthouse we were intrigued . |
| 23 | As we pass a couple of girl guests clad in complete colour-coordinated beachwear outfits , they whisper about us . |
| 24 | As we pass the finish line at the end of the first circuit , he lets go all the power in the car 's 333 bhp , the big bonnet lifts , the needle on the rev counter winds towards the red limit and , suddenly , your complacent reporter is hanging onto his seat-belt mounting with white knuckles , his notebook abandoned in the footwell . |
| 25 | The driver of the bus , meanwhile , cheerfully informs us , as we pass the theatre where Malcolm X was assassinated , that round the corner ‘ there 's a good hospital you can go to if you ever get shot ’ . |
| 26 | As we pass the top of the stairs the thought hits me for the thousandth time . |
| 27 | Then as we pass the slaughterhouse at Karantina , I ask the Christian driver the reason for the appalling smell . |
| 28 | As we expand the client server architecture to become a universal solution we will need to integrate more diverse sources of information . |
| 29 | ‘ I started the sport relatively late , but I 'm still improving , ’ he said as we took a breather at the end of a run through soft but stodgy powder ( he floated over it with extreme grace while I plunged head first into it like a deranged puppy ) . |
| 30 | A nerve-wracking wait added to the mounting psychological pressure as we charted the progress of the sun over the Anglesey seascape . |