Sentence examples for As we preferred from inspiring English sources

All at once, the rumbles became roars, the chants swelled thunderously, and there were the teams walking out, the West Germans in white shirts with black shorts, the English in unaccustomed red (as the home team, they changed their regular white shirts in deference to their opponents, or their guests, as we preferred to say).

Or a mixologist as we preferred to be called.

(It's important to note that we were not privy to military information, which was fine with us, as we preferred fresh information from our network of local Afghans).

(It's important to note that we were not privy to military information, which was fine with us, as we preferred fresh information from our network of local Afghans, NGOs, and Pakistanis).

We used an arbitrary score of 25% positivity to divide the patients into subgroups as we preferred a simple division into positive and negative.

We did not replace dead individuals to keep the density/size constant throughout the experiment, as we preferred to create conditions similar to those when new colonies are started by hypopi colonising a new habitat patch, because this is when variation in colony sizes is most likely to occur.

Crossings of the English Channel, as we prefer to call it, pepper our literature and history.

Sacrifices — "or challenges, as we prefer to call them," in the wry words of the England captain, Catherine Spencer — go with the territory.

We want to arrange our own transport and accommodation, as we prefer to do things ourselves and at our own pace, however we're not sure how easy and safe it is to travel around Mexico.

Even the offer of counselling after a specific ordeal is typically greeted with a mixture of embarrassment and annoyance, as we prefer to fall back on the trusty British stiff upper-lip.

There really isn't very much discussion of this fascinating subset of the modelling industry – just as we prefer to concentrate on the glamorous world of fashion weeks and couture rather than the nuts-and-bolts business of garment production.