Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] as [pers pn] [vb past] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Leeds City could not be suspended as a club — we had no power to do that ; but so long as they refused to give up those vital papers , we could have no way out save by expelling them . |
| 2 | It was a pursuit which we could only continue , of course , so long as we managed to sell our films to commercial television simply on the strength of their entertainment value . |
| 3 | Paul wriggled , and the look on his face seemed to indicate that he would n't actually mind wasting anything , just so long as he got to hit the bell with his plank of wood . |
| 4 | ‘ So long as he promised to give the heroine more character and personality , that is . |
| 5 | Why not go along with Luke 's expansive mood for just so long as it took to finish her drink ? |
| 6 | Writing a doctorate on the British response to the church conflict in Nazi Germany , I was well aware that Dietrich Bonhoeffer had refused to grant that the established national Protestant Church was in fact a Christian church so long as it refused to ordain people who were racially Jewish . |
| 7 | So just as I began to read to see , so too I began to write to see . |
| 8 | ‘ No ! ’ she broke in desperately as she tried to wriggle away . |
| 9 | Before the case came to a hearing Parliament sought to improve the revenue 's position by enacting with retrospective effect section 47(1) of the Finance Act 1986 , but this proved ineffective for the purpose and on 31 July 1987 Nolan J. [ 1987 ] S.T.C. 654 decided that the regulations complained of were ultra vires and void in so far as they purported to provide for the imposition of tax on interests and dividends paid by building societies prior to 6 April 1986 , and made an order accordingly . |
| 10 | Moreover , there seems to be an element of moral righteousness in Bukharin 's attitude , in so far as he sought to clothe what could be considered necessary violence with an aura of positive good , thereby turning necessity into a virtue . |
| 11 | We never rested five minutes that he did not fall asleep and gave us a little nasal music , and which hindered me nothing so fully as I wished to have done . |
| 12 | ‘ There , ’ said Penry , putting her aside gently as he prepared to pilot the Angharad into her anchorage . |
| 13 | In a panic I phoned tom to ask if he could come home early as I wanted to discuss Peter with him before the boy got home . |
| 14 | But to her amazement he was still there as she turned to tell him , ‘ Please make yourself comfortable . |
| 15 | ‘ Perhaps not as badly as you wished to go , ’ he interrupted harshly . |
| 16 | He said the atmosphere at each gathering had been one of calm , loving concern , and this would continue for as long as it took to get the children home . |
| 17 | ‘ Again , I lived with Mike for as long as it took to get the divorce and then I arranged the wedding . |
| 18 | For him , this meant giving master classes in duplicity in order to keep both Axis and Allies in play for as long as he needed to achieve his economic , military and , above all , territorial objectives . |
| 19 | Luckily Tim Dunton had been very understanding , telling her not to worry and to take as long as she needed to sort matters out . |
| 20 | Eve had been there for as long as she remembered to help her fight her battles . |
| 21 | Why did he spend his life making films that would be forgotten almost as quickly as it took to make them ? |
| 22 | This was as near as they dared to approach to avoid the risk of fire damage to the vehicles . |
| 23 | These she kept in an ivory box , and the gods ate from them as often as they wished to renew their youth . |
| 24 | Now that she was not restricted by nursing her mother , Carrie was free to travel to West Derby as often as she wished to see her grandchild . |
| 25 | Thank you very much to those who volunteered , or who were volunteered to help , especially to who worked as hard as I did to get the whole thing set up . |
| 26 | In those years he was working hard on his Bovary ( though not , perhaps , as hard as he liked to maintain ) and at the end of the day , since a physical release was too complicated for him and would contain too many things he could n't entirely command , he sought an intellectual release . |
| 27 | Making an awkward little gesture towards the cupboard under the sink , she stepped back hastily as he bent to collect the dustpan and brush . |
| 28 | ‘ Oh , do n't be ridiculous , Giles , calm down , calm down , come and have a nice Perrier water , ’ said Liz , taking his other arm , and , with Kate , attempting to lead him away from the fracas , as one would a child in a playground from its tormentor ( for Giles 's antagonist Paul Hargreaves , pale faced , dark suited , silver-grey tied , was smiling calmly with a horrible amusement at this distressing scene ) : but the desperate Giles was beyond leading , and fell back heavily as he attempted to disengage himself from his two intercessors , crashing into a large fern and some pots of bulbs and sending earth and splashes of champagne over the carpet . |
| 29 | He reached out casually as she turned to go , and caught her hand in his , letting it slip very gradually away from his fingers as she moved back . |
| 30 | Griffith 's breakthrough came almost accidentally as he attempted to forge a career in a new industry about which he knew little . |