Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] as [pers pn] have [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1 Emily sighed heavily , no more would she sit beneath those trees reading or idling away her days so carelessly as she had done , was it only a few short weeks ago ?
2 Not so long as we 've got the stuff .
3 Jack would n't shoot so long as he 'd got hold of him .
4 ( 4 ) An applicant shall not be treated as having failed to comply with subsection ( 2 ) ( b ) above if the notice is , without any fault or intention of his , removed , obscured or defaced before the first day of the meeting of the board at which the application is to be considered , so long as he has taken reasonable steps for its protection and , if need be , replacement .
5 So long as it had appeared to be an alternative force to the Labour party , he kept clear .
6 There 's also a guy called Ron Tyson who collects every magazine article ever written about Hendrix … so long as it 's got Hendrix on the front cover .
7 I do n't care if it 's a rubbish route so long as it 's got an E-number .
8 So long as I 've got somebody now there 's nobody along here .
9 ‘ Anyhow , it does n't really matter what you use so long as you 've got the right top . ’
10 SO LONG AS YOU 'VE GOT YOUR ELF , THAT 'S THE MAIN THING !
11 That 's capitalism and you , so long as you 've got buyers and sellers you get this antagonism of interest between buyers and sellers .
12 If they are lost or stolen , you can recover their value so long as you have kept a note of their numbers separately .
13 Here 's money for my meat ; I would have left it on the board , so soon As I had made my meal ; and parted With prayers for the provider
14 He had seen Nehushtah only once as she 'd weaved her way , in a froth of acolytes , across the gardens .
15 I think that so far as we 've got .
16 We , we are er Chairman involved in Redhill proposals in so far as we have submitted erm a series of er points to the local authorities concerned and tomorrow er as it happens is the date for the pre-enquiry meeting , the enquiry is due to be held er in I think late spring May er time , I 'm not sure of the exact date
17 In so far as they have grown up in an ad hoc fashion , designed by the art colleges on an individual basis , it is difficult to generalize about them .
18 so far as they have made some er adjustment , we will be able to judge whether the scale of adjustment they 've made was a was a reasonable thing .
19 Only , I think , in so far as I 've seen so many pictures over the years that I must have picked up some knowledge and a sort of an overview of what there is in English art , so that I can make better comparisons .
20 Assuming , then , that your memory of the principal facts of your subject , so far as you have studied it , is proving adequate , how can you improve the results of study by further techniques ?
21 He was grappling to define love itself , in so far as he had experienced it and now understood it .
22 It falls foul of one of the cardinal principles of the law of trusts : the principle of benefit , which states that a person can be validly appointed a trustee only so far as he has received benefits intended by the settlor under the settlor 's will .
23 The knowledge that the larger margin was there for the taking , if you were bold enough to seize it , exercised him as much now as it had done back in 1973 .
24 But managing director Mr Peter Jarvis admitted : ‘ Because of the squeeze on spending , retailing , particularly in the South-east , is not doing so well as we had hoped . ’
25 Simon stayed at home working for the Bar Examination , he passed the first part quite soon just as he had predicted .
26 He 'd run away repeatedly as he 'd got older , never with anywhere to go but just anxious to be free of the confining walls and restrictive atmosphere .
27 We did not therefore send off the telegram he had drafted to Molotov , more especially as he had received from Eden a cold and almost minatory minute just before the Cabinet began .
28 As we spoke , a car drew up in the carport ( which incidentally was still just as I 'd built it 15 years ago ! ) and to our astonishment ( because the ownership had changed since we sold it ) the lady recognised us ( she 'd been given our Edinburgh address by a mutual friend and had actually called on us once , which we 'd totally forgotten ! ) .
29 In a way , he was glad when the doorbell rang commandingly just as he had got the eggs in the pan .
30 The embankments which he had vainly tried to have reinforced by the zemindars would now be brimming and beginning to overflow … within a few hours the country around the embankments would be flooded and ignorance , stupidity and superstition would have triumphed once more as they have triumphed again and again in human affairs since time began !
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