Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [subord] i [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's a curtain across the door , but it ai n't long enough so I can see Marie 's feet and her black trousers all in a ball on the ground . |
| 2 | Much better than I could have been in the role . |
| 3 | Nobody destroys me , and nobody was going to destroy Johnnie so long as I could sit by his bed — some of his family tried to stop me — and will my life force into him . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Just so long as I can do something — no matter what — I wo n't feel so helpless . ’ |
| 5 | I do not mind being told what I can not do , so long as I can accede to an adequate reason why . |
| 6 | I do n't know , but so long as I can cure the disease I do n't much care ! |
| 7 | There 's a bleak line in the book when , his parents divorcing , his father leaving for Europe , Rock quotes himself , aged 11 , saying ‘ I 'll be OK , Dad , I wo n't need Mom so long as I can have the limo . ’ |
| 8 | Just so long as I can see you . ’ |
| 9 | He beamed at them again and Caspar was beginning to relax , because it seemed as if they might escape after all and Fenella was remembering about magic being very nearly everyday here , when Pumlumon said , ‘ Of course , that 's so long as I can remember the words . ’ |
| 10 | For so long as I can recall I have always had kennels and an assortment of dogs to help me in my work . |
| 11 | For longer , much longer than I would have dared , Laura held us all there , sustaining the kiln 's turbulent rage , then said quietly , ‘ Alex , take this glove . |
| 12 | ‘ That took much longer than I would have believed . ’ |
| 13 | He brings it down harder than I can say . |
| 14 | The area had been given an unfair image by ‘ so far as I can make out a group of tearaways who are , at the moment , completely uncontrollable . |
| 15 | In so far as I can make out the policy of the Labour party , it is to give the business rate back to local authorities . |
| 16 | ( 87 ) He appears to be unaware of after-image phenomena and , so far as I can make out , puts forward an explanation , instead , which says that movement can be perceived when no object is seen to move ! |
| 17 | And underneath that thought ( I think ! ) is another one another underblanket , insulating the underblanket above and which , so far as I can make out through the layers on top of it , runs something like this : |
| 18 | ‘ Mostly , so far as I can tell , they turn a blind eye . |
| 19 | Out of this confusion emerge two major problems that , so far as I can tell , are here to stay . |
| 20 | So far as I can tell , and that 's not as far as I 'd like , on the last few Fridays he 's not been going to any other bank or finance house . |
| 21 | And so far as I can tell , you know , from looking at my children 's schooling , the girls seem to be good at maths in the early stages . |
| 22 | Techno of the most pathetic kind , with squealing , oh so excited vocals that will sound familiar to anyone who remembers Bow Wow Wow , not that it 's Ms Louise Wynne , so far as I can gather . |
| 23 | ‘ Matilda , so far as I can gather at this early stage , is also a kind of mathematical genius . |
| 24 | So far as I can discover , this appears to be some sort of first parliamentary double . |
| 25 | I wonder if you are using ( in lectures ) a statement I remember you making in talk , but not so far as I can recall , in print . |
| 26 | ‘ So far as I can see it 's practically certain Mr Merrivale was in there with her early on in the night , ’ said Ethel . |
| 27 | ‘ So far as I can see , he only thinks about snooker , his girlfriend and pop music . |
| 28 | I am opposed to judicial corporal punishment , always have been and , so far as I can see , always shall be . |
| 29 | ‘ The only way to change Ray MacSharry 's mind , so far as I can see , is before he makes it up . |
| 30 | Of course , helicopters can hover , while , so far as I can see , light planes can rarely drop to less than 90 miles per hour , so when there is a choice , it is best to shoot from helicopters . |