Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] as it [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wanted our collaboration , strange as it was , to continue for eve ; , just so long as it kept him beside me . |
| 2 | Well , it 's all Greek to me , but so long as it keeps him happy . ’ |
| 3 | Run it well , so long as it pleases you . |
| 4 | Their publication was a speculation which — so far as it made me known & procured me employment in Zoological drawing — answered my expectations — but in matters of money occasioned me considerable loss . |
| 5 | Wealth is only desirable in so far as it enables them to indulge in litigation , and the height of their ambition is to succeed in a case , especially if thereby their enemy is punished . ’ |
| 6 | The tolerance of adults is important only in so far as it allows them to feed high on the shore , exposed to rain . |
| 7 | Whilst other sections of the population are clearly severely affected by these government policies , disabled people experience these particular ‘ reforms ’ as an attack on their human right not to be incarcerated without trial and conviction , in so far as it renders it in some cases impossible to live outside institutions . |
| 8 | As strategic proposals emerge , each subsystem will evaluate them against developments in other subsystems , in so far as it perceives them to affect it too . |
| 9 | The Revolution had impinged on their consciousness only in so far as it provided them with land , or took away foodstuffs during War Communism . |
| 10 | Even more so as it caught me with a mouthful of pancake and hot sauced prawns . |
| 11 | Her friends back in London would never have recognised her as the Alyssia Stanley who had dozens of men trailing behind her , and who toyed with them but only for as long as it suited her . |
| 12 | ‘ For as long as it suited you ? ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Only for as long as it took her to latch on to another driver , ’ Vitor said drily . |
| 14 | He stayed for as long as it took him to finish his beer . |
| 15 | For as long as it took me to get out of range , several birds used me for bombing practice , coming so close on occasions that ducking was a necessity rather than a flamboyant gesture . |
| 16 | Since recessive threats to the money markets occurred in the ‘ big bangs ’ of the 1980s , the enterprise culture has shown it can remove jobs as quickly as it creates them . |
| 17 | Nigel and Rosamund Starmer-Smith 's tragic loss of their daughter , Charlotte , has clearly affected many of you as deeply as it has us . |
| 18 | ‘ And perhaps I should remind you that the contract you 've just cited binds you as securely as it does us , unless you 're willing to face interminable legal hassles in an effort to extricate yourself . ’ |