Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] as they [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | cos I do n't mind what they have so long as they eat it |
| 2 | And so long as they pass them through Rannoch to the west if need be . |
| 3 | But just so long as they take me somewhere where there 's the right kind of electricity … |
| 4 | Everyone dominates central stage for a while , just so long as they need it , only to return it chivalrously after their moment . |
| 5 | ‘ There are a hundred ways a firm can get rid of pollution into the river , ’ said an experienced officer , ‘ so long as they do it at the right time . ’ |
| 6 | Not necessarily , since both teachers and researchers will ultimately use readability formulae for just so long as they find them of some value . |
| 7 | They will not wear their knuckles out knocking at the West 's door , so long as they feel it will be opened to them before too long . |
| 8 | " I do n't care chat becomes of me , So long as they sing me that sheet melody , Yip-I-Addy , I-Ay , I-Ay , Yip-I Addy , I-Ay , I-Ay . " |
| 9 | And they despised her for it , some of them , and they feared her for it , most of them ; but she did not care , so long as they paid her enough to be drunk on until the need to kill was irresistible again . |
| 10 | With pragmatism truth and usefulness become fused : ‘ ideas … become true just in so far as they help us to get into satisfactory relations with other parts of our experience . ’ |
| 11 | These letters are the letters of a wonderful poet and that truth shines steady through the very shining and alternating feelings with which I look at them in so far as they concern me , that is in so far as they are mine . |
| 12 | Academics can still write evaluative criticism of course , and in so far as they do they are producing the kind of criticism practised by men of letters . |
| 13 | For instance , there is usually a starting assumption that individuals make history , at least by the sum of their actions and even if not quite as they intended it to be . |
| 14 | If the relatives are able to go to the mortuary or viewing room and be with the person who has died for as long as they feel it to be necessary , then they are more able to start absorbing the fact of their loved one 's death , because again they have the evidence in front of them . |
| 15 | For as long as they continue they are the issue , rather than a grievance for which many people might instinctively have some sympathy . |
| 16 | So we had to as soon as they come we had to open a trench and heel them in do you see . |
| 17 | They were a best-selling group without real fans , more like the Archies than the Sex Pistols , and they lost significance as rapidly as they gained it . |
| 18 | The heart of the matter is the provision of a physical and social environment through which the members of society may gradually withdraw from it as securely and as worthily as they enter it through the environment of home and education . |
| 19 | Believing , as fervently as they say they believe in their Almighty , that money can make up for anything , even bad taste and bad manners . |
| 20 | ‘ Only as far as they know she had n't seen a doctor . ’ |
| 21 | As far as they know you 're co-driver on this working holiday . |
| 22 | They were also content to leave the whole affair as far as they knew it , understood it or had allocated the blame for it . |
| 23 | I put it to Andy that it must have been a blow when they split in 1988 , but he , ever the voice of reason , says , ‘ There was no point in trying to keep them together , it had gone as far as they wanted it to go and they wanted to do something different . |
| 24 | When they have moved forwards as far as they feel they want to go they then leave one of the bottles , place both their hands on the other and have to get back without touching the the floor with any part of their body . |
| 25 | Despite this , most people persist in proposing their ideas at least twice as often as they suggest them ! |
| 26 | At high rates of interest , people may feel it worthwhile to put some of their income in a savings account on pay day and draw it out again as they need it later in the month . |