Example sentences of "so [adv] as she [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 This was followed by an interview between the President and Von Papen : and I can not help thinking that , during their conversation together , the former must have assured the latter that , so long as she could hold out against Allied demands , Turkey would abstain from hostile action towards Germany .
2 She was perfectly happy to live like a student twenty years after art college , anything so long as she could paint .
3 The agreement stated that ‘ in consideration of such dfesire ’ the executors would convey the cottage to the widow for her life or so long as she should continue a widow .
4 She had forsaken her people and her father 's house , and had , like every other well-brought-up girl , established her own household and she should cleave only unto it , forsaking all others so long as she should live .
5 The others , in so far as she could recover her feelings of the time , seemed to have involved love — inflammation of the senses , certainly .
6 So far as she could make out , Ven Gajdusek was more interested in enjoying his walk than he was in answering any of her questions .
7 They had come , so far as she could tell , west and north , perhaps far enough north to turn west , that was all .
8 No one , so far as she could tell , hugged the doorways , folded into the shadows .
9 But only the occasional innocent — so far as she could tell — twang of the springs of the hideous black and red sofa punctuated the interview .
10 Well , he was certainly in a good mood , and no sign so far as she could see that he had been drinking what Matey called ‘ his nasty whisky ’ , so she prepared herself to play him .
11 So far as she could recall , she had seen no reviews but then , of course , she knew she could easily have missed them in the interstices of choosing wallpaper , driving down to Hillmarden , overseeing decorators , interviewing nannies , buying a layette and all the hundred and one other things with which she was continually being confronted .
12 Molly asked Louise when the men were talking , so far as she could hear , about the rat race .
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