Example sentences of "so [adv] as [pers pn] [vb past] [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 | Jack would n't shoot so long as he 'd got hold of him . |
| 3 | So long as it had appeared to be an alternative force to the Labour party , he kept clear . |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | He was grappling to define love itself , in so far as he had experienced it and now understood it . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |