Example sentences of "so long as [pron] [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They sit only so long as they continue to hold episcopal office . |
| 2 | ‘ Leeds City could not be suspended as a club — we had no power to do that ; but so long as they refused to give up those vital papers , we could have no way out save by expelling them . |
| 3 | It was a pursuit which we could only continue , of course , so long as we managed to sell our films to commercial television simply on the strength of their entertainment value . |
| 4 | In the world of an inside ethnography as Favret-Saada identifies , ‘ one is never able to choose between subjectivism and the objective method as it was taught ’ ( ibid. 23 ) , so long as one wishes to find out answers which , in traditional ethnography , are often missing from the finite corpus of empirical observation . |
| 5 | Some might worry that he is allowing the Californians to influence him too much , but I ca n't help feeling that so long as he manages to stay on his horse he remains the best sort of Englishman aborad . |
| 6 | Paul wriggled , and the look on his face seemed to indicate that he would n't actually mind wasting anything , just so long as he got to hit the bell with his plank of wood . |
| 7 | What rhino likes is fucking and killing , killing and fucking ; he is n't at all fussy which end he fucks , so long as he gets to fuck . |
| 8 | Anyone who gives him a flak jacket ( that is , consent ) may take it back , but the doctor only needs one and so long as he continues to have one he has the legal right to proceed . |
| 9 | ‘ So long as he promised to give the heroine more character and personality , that is . |
| 10 | Why not go along with Luke 's expansive mood for just so long as it took to finish her drink ? |
| 11 | Writing a doctorate on the British response to the church conflict in Nazi Germany , I was well aware that Dietrich Bonhoeffer had refused to grant that the established national Protestant Church was in fact a Christian church so long as it refused to ordain people who were racially Jewish . |