Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [verb] so [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I only began to work so hard because it was a way of filling all those empty hours without you . ’ |
| 2 | Wildebeest movements follow , at a distance of a few days , the pattern of rainfall ; but they only keep moving so long as rain is falling or has recently fallen within the area scanned by their senses . |
| 3 | A unit only continues to operate so long as it is successful . |
| 4 | It was the red-haired left-hander 's first win over the squash legend , the first time he had played a match lasting an hour and 50 minutes at this level and won , and the first time he can ever have gambled so audaciously as he did at 13-13 in the final game . |
| 5 | America yielded first place despite its exports rising 8.5% in volume terms , compared with a rise of only 1.5% for Germany ; and it would still have done so even if unification , which added $22.5 billion to the exports of the former Federal Republic , had never happened . |
| 6 | We may be told that what we understand of an event e , if it is taken as an effect , is that there existed a certain set of conditions — say sc — such that since it existed , e occurred , and e would still have occurred so long as " the usual background " or " the usual environment " obtained . |
| 7 | With respect to the short circuit and the house fire , it is true that since a set of conditions obtained , there was the fire , and this would still have occurred so long as , say , there was not a flood at the right moment . |
| 8 | I think that 's had it , I think the er man from customs Simon was saving that , the man took it all apart and I think that 's why it probably got broken so quickly because I think they messed with it . |
| 9 | I am not sure she could actually have gone so far as to say things like : ‘ these errors may be trivial in themselves , but you must yourself realize their larger significance ’ . |