Example sentences of "so long as [pers pn] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor is it good news for the majority of people who already own-especially those who became first-time buyers over the past four years and whose complete capital has been wiped out : more than a million such people are probably technically bankrupt but need not admit it so long as they keep paying their mortgage . |
| 2 | All members of the company ( though not its secretary ) must be qualified solicitors , and there are special provisions to apply when a member dies or is struck off the roll or otherwise loses his qualification to practise , which in essence provide that such member 's shares become non-voting so long as they remain registered in unqualified hands , and only qualified solicitors will be able to vote as proxies . |
| 3 | They sit only so long as they continue to hold episcopal office . |
| 4 | So she sent them on immediately , longing to know what they contained and never finding out , but supposing that so long as they did keep coming the worst could not yet have happened . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | Not so long as we 've got the stuff . |
| 7 | ‘ Some have praised our style and said it does n't matter if we go down , so long as we keep playing football . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He can continue to shoot so long as he keeps hitting , up to a maximum of 6 shots per turn . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ Well , so long as he does know about it that 's all that matters . |
| 13 | The scent of human food was very strong in the Gruncher 's nostrils , and he must have been thinking that so long as he kept going flat out , he would catch his meal in the end . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Jack would n't shoot so long as he 'd got hold of him . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ( 4 ) An applicant shall not be treated as having failed to comply with subsection ( 2 ) ( b ) above if the notice is , without any fault or intention of his , removed , obscured or defaced before the first day of the meeting of the board at which the application is to be considered , so long as he has taken reasonable steps for its protection and , if need be , replacement . |
| 18 | ‘ So long as he promised to give the heroine more character and personality , that is . |
| 19 | So long as it had appeared to be an alternative force to the Labour party , he kept clear . |
| 20 | Why not go along with Luke 's expansive mood for just so long as it took to finish her drink ? |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | There 's also a guy called Ron Tyson who collects every magazine article ever written about Hendrix … so long as it 's got Hendrix on the front cover . |
| 23 | I do n't care if it 's a rubbish route so long as it 's got an E-number . |
| 24 | So long as I 've got somebody now there 's nobody along here . |
| 25 | You 've lost your ships , you 've lost your friends in Ireland , you 've lost the Lady Emma and the active support of the Pope , but you 're still strong enough to stop Harald of Norway from using you as a base , and you 're no threat to Wessex so long as you get rid of those Normans . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Anyhow , it does n't really matter what you use so long as you 've got the right top . ’ |
| 27 | SO LONG AS YOU 'VE GOT YOUR ELF , THAT 'S THE MAIN THING ! |
| 28 | That 's capitalism and you , so long as you 've got buyers and sellers you get this antagonism of interest between buyers and sellers . |
| 29 | If they are lost or stolen , you can recover their value so long as you have kept a note of their numbers separately . |