Example sentences of "so [adv] as [pron] [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not so long as they handed over the pound notes — though smiling Clyde took most of those , the greedy sod . |
| 2 | He believed as Lionel Curtis did that Indians ' souls had to be renovated before they were fit to govern : he deeply shocked the American journalist William Shirer by announcing that ‘ Self-government … is inconceivable and unattainable without the removal of untouchability , as it also is without Hindu-Moslem unity … we shall be unfit to gain independence so long as we keep in bondage a fifth of the population of Hindustan . ’ |
| 3 | The idea of dying did n't worry him , so long as he went out with a bang . |
| 4 | Why does it matter if your husband gets the lunch and drops the crumbs on the floor , so long as he clears up afterwards ? |
| 5 | His insecurity will persist so long as he bottles up change , no matter how well his ruling party behaves . |
| 6 | Dansey did not seek to influence its policy , so long as it kept out of his agents ' way . |
| 7 | ‘ Cheap electricity 's the answer to the first — sod the cost to the environment so long as it keeps down the cost to the consumer . |
| 8 | ‘ I was personally told he was not concerned about my past so long as I kept up a volume of business , ’ he said . |
| 9 | Do whatever you like , so long as you keep out of my hair . |
| 10 | Over coffee in the study Miss Danziger thanked the guests individually for their concern , apologised for interrupting their enjoyment of an excellent meal , and explained that so long as she came out of the spasm in less than a minute and a half it was not dangerous and left no ill-effects . |
| 11 | Although the skirt panels look perfectly flat when seen on air , in reality they follow varying angles to the original base vertical planes , bending ever so slightly as they rise up from the fender section to join up at the midriff . |
| 12 | In so far as it reached out beyond the rather eccentric sect of the Comtist ‘ Religion of Humanity ’ , positivism became little more than a philosophical justification of the conventional method of the experimental sciences , and similarly for most contemporaries Mill was , again in the words of Taine , the man who had opened up ‘ the good old road of induction and experiment ’ . |
| 13 | So why was her heart beating so wildly as she pulled out the card , as if its message was somehow important ? |