Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] so [adv] as [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We did n't know her so well as we think . |
| 2 | Did n't know her so well as you did . |
| 3 | Mr Dalrymple 's son Joe said the gunmen had been prepared to shoot anybody so long as they were Catholics . |
| 4 | Anyone can do it so long as they are not criminals or kids , and promise to play by the rules . |
| 5 | Dealt with me himself , and never told anybody so far as I know . ’ |
| 6 | Seldom before have England needed him so badly as they go into tomorrow 's third Test in Bombay already beaten 2-0 in the series by India . |
| 7 | ‘ I do n't mind anything so long as we 're safe , ’ she said . |
| 8 | Since his surplus stock may be in keen demand he may not be able to supply you — but he can at least point you in the right direction by suggesting alternative sources , ones that have proved themselves so far as he is concerned . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | If Lord Eldon used any language which could be so interpreted , we must conclude that he either did not guard himself so cautiously as he intended , or that he did not lend that degree of attention to the legal doctrine connected with the case before him , which he was accustomed to afford . |
| 11 | I was in no mood to stop them so long as I got my mail . |
| 12 | He certainly has a vision for the Burmese farmer , and I have never liked him so much as I did last night as we sat talking together under the stars . |
| 13 | She was watching him so intently as he bit into it that he began to wonder if Smallfry was right to fear she would poison him at the slightest opportunity . |
| 14 | But he said , thoughtfully , that he believed the Robemaker would weave anything so long as he was paid sufficiently highly . |
| 15 | I 've discovered that one can paint anything so long as it 's BIG ! |
| 16 | ‘ He would n't kill you so long as I 'm alive . |
| 17 | It offered to put some of the Mrs on railways in the 1990s , but this solution was never very popular outside the Air Force , which wanted anything so long as it was cheap — lest it have to take money from other projects . |