Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] as he [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It does n't matter Charlotte , so long as he colours it in |
| 2 | She was great with him so long as he kept her occupied . |
| 3 | Such a government , Lawrence asserted , ‘ would be child 's play for a decent man to run , so long as he ran it like Cromer 's Egypt , not like the Egypt of the Protectorate . |
| 4 | The homosexual male is fine — is pretty good news , in fact , on the whole — so long as he knows he 's homosexual . |
| 5 | Darlington Tory association chairman Bill Smith said in Saturday 's story that Fallon could have the constituency nomination so long as he wanted it . |
| 6 | At that point the creditor could still refuse to have the man released from prison and insist of his being kept there , so long as he paid him a groat a day . |
| 7 | He hated it especially now as he dragged it out of its corner in the garage , squeezed it between his Vauxhall Viva estate car and the twins ' tricycles , and rolled it on to the uneven surface in front of the garage doors . |
| 8 | She knew how Sisyphus must have felt , rolling that stone wearily up the hill , only to see it slide back down again as he made it to the top . |
| 9 | It 'll be all right soon as he gets it . ’ |
| 10 | McIllvanney laughed , then stepped quickly back as he sensed I might bring my knee up into his balls . |
| 11 | The rope swayed a little as he went down hand over hand , then he was on the ground and the rope went still again as he held it fast and turned his face up to her . |
| 12 | If he had a new night special , even if he later grew to like her , he would start by trying to play her up just as he had me , and , since she had told me herself , Daisy Yates . |
| 13 | Fry claimed he was sacked by Flashman but the latter responded by saying Fry has a job at Underhill for as long as he wants it . |
| 14 | Izzie left them deep in animated conversation — the monk laughing out loud as he realized he was being lured into an acting profession — and went inside the house to find Gabriel . |
| 15 | Those were the facts , as far as he knew them up to this moment . |
| 16 | He just sat there jiggling his bloody spectacles and saying that as far as he knew it was n't . ’ |
| 17 | Occasionally she would receive a postcard , coloured views usually of London with nondescript , meaningless messages , but as far as he knew she never replied . |
| 18 | He never hit a bad shot off the tee ; it just did n't come back as far as he thought it would . |
| 19 | When Dad joined us Albert greeted him just as pleasantly as he had me , and I thought at least they 're all happy this morning . |
| 20 | Mr Moores said the manager had been worried for some time that he was not feeling as well as he thought he should . |
| 21 | But if he knew his Commander as well as he thought he did , there would be little chance of that . |
| 22 | She hoped he spoke English as well as he wrote it and she hoped too that his slightly censorious tone did not surface as he met her in Paris . |
| 23 | Had the man not have defended himself as well as he did he could well have received very serious injuries . |
| 24 | As fast as he undid them I did them up again , so that when he got to my waist and sighed he recoiled with indignation and astonishment to find that his labour had been in vain . |
| 25 | Jackson , who is to give two sell-out concerts at the gigantic Fukuoka Dome on Friday and Saturday , left town almost as fast as he entered it . |
| 26 | He smiled almost lazily as he studied her across the brightly lit room . |
| 27 | And yet soon as he died they were all there . |