Example sentences of "just [adv] [adv] as [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just so long as we maintain the candidacy . ’ |
| 2 | Just so long as we understand each other . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Good , ’ he said coldly , ‘ just so long as we understand each other . |
| 4 | But just so long as they take me somewhere where there 's the right kind of electricity … |
| 5 | Everyone dominates central stage for a while , just so long as they need it , only to return it chivalrously after their moment . |
| 6 | ‘ Fine — just so long as they understand that I mean what I say . ’ |
| 7 | Not necessarily , since both teachers and researchers will ultimately use readability formulae for just so long as they find them of some value . |
| 8 | I wanted our collaboration , strange as it was , to continue for eve ; , just so long as it kept him beside me . |
| 9 | Why not go along with Luke 's expansive mood for just so long as it took to finish her drink ? |
| 10 | ‘ Just so long as it does n't get in here . ’ |
| 11 | Any word could follow any other word , just so long as it matched the phonetic input description . |
| 12 | And speak your own language , please : we 'll even teach it to you in our schools to prove how understanding we are , just so long as you do our dirty work for less wages than our own kind are prepared to accept : just so long as you keep yourselves to yourselves , and do n't let your children marry ours , because what we 're all terrified of , so terrified the word 's gone out of the vocabulary . |
| 13 | But they have to call in a vet from time to time , and it 's with those farmers that I think you 'll have most success , just so long as you keep your charges low . ’ |
| 14 | And speak your own language , please : we 'll even teach it to you in our schools to prove how understanding we are , just so long as you do our dirty work for less wages than our own kind are prepared to accept : just so long as you keep yourselves to yourselves , and do n't let your children marry ours , because what we 're all terrified of , so terrified the word 's gone out of the vocabulary . |
| 15 | Do n't bother about the rent if you have n't got it now , just so long as you pay me as soon as you get back . |
| 16 | Just so long as I know . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | In the sonnet just quoted , for instance , Shakespeare presents the Poet in a humiliating situation , indifferent to the behaviour of the Mistress with other men just so long as he gets some share of the action . |
| 19 | ‘ A good governor does as he pleases on his world , just so long as he pays his tithes in treasure and people . |
| 20 | I had to give her a little reminder now and then , to stop her attempting to fly off into the wide blue yonder , by gently pulling the leash , but within two days she was coming to me just as willingly as she had on the straight creance . |
| 21 | There is no doubt that their super-sensitive barbules detect our lines just as easily as they detect food , but , fortunately for us , they usually accept our offerings in spite of the obvious danger they have felt , though the same danger compels them to take the bait ‘ hit-and-run ’ style . |
| 22 | The lesson of the porcupine quills ( and for an actual example of how not to do it read my Zen There was Murder , if after all these years you can find a copy ) is that any part of your book that you do not directly present to the reader ought to be thought out in imaginative terms , just as thoroughly as you have used your imagination to make whatever you have written fully credible . |
| 23 | Fran knew that just as clearly as she knew her own name . |
| 24 | He felt just as strongly as he had the night before . |
| 25 | Once we had worked together to help him regain his faith , he was able to go on to play just as well as he had done before ; indeed , now that he had remembered the feeling of success , he was able to play even better . |
| 26 | Now although such a rule is not part of my physical or material world , its existence constrains my action just as effectively as they do ; we can call this a constraint of the world of ideas . |
| 27 | It would take a musical analysis to find out whether the offerings to which these two extremes respond are really worlds apart ’ ( Adorno 1976 : 13 ) , we know that the question implied in the final sentence has already been answered in his own mind , just as surely as we know that he has not done the musical analysis but simply conflated Elvis and … whom ? |
| 28 | Yet life is a dream-metaphor , which we create just as surely as we create our dreams — and our Higher Self will often communicate through ‘ mundane ’ everyday events . |
| 29 | ‘ He killed Robin just as surely as he murdered Marion . |
| 30 | Telling him would be a mistake , she knew that , just as surely as she knew he would never tell her what he really felt , but she knew . |