Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] as they [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | cos I do n't mind what they have so long as they eat it |
| 2 | Everyone dominates central stage for a while , just so long as they need it , only to return it chivalrously after their moment . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | They were also content to leave the whole affair as far as they knew it , understood it or had allocated the blame for it . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |