Example sentences of "so [adv] [conj] [pron] [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 But had I hurt your pride so badly that you 'd leave for England — when you had n't done your interview yet ! ’
2 Pushing hard back against the mountain , he spun backwards out from the rock , curling over in the air so slowly that he could watch , in slow motion , first the passing overhead of the dark clouds , then the mountains , the far side of the valley , the meadow , the cabin , and , at last , the lake red with mud .
3 If we want parents to enjoy meetings so much that they will want to repeat the experience then a number of basic issues need to be addressed :
4 I 've gone to see my favourite players play — I 'd see them one night and they 'd be phenomenal and I 'd like the show so much that I would go the next night , drive two hours to see it and it would suuuuck ! and that 's just the way it is . ’
5 ‘ I have n't got it , ’ he said , and it was so long since he 'd last spoken that the first words came hoarse and harsh , like the sound of some animal .
6 They were even willing to occupy pre-moulded nests so long as they could carry out their normal movements before laying .
7 Just so long as they could finish this stupid game and get on to his answer .
8 As far as they were concerned , and like most Arab players in the narcotics game , the DEA was welcome to play one side off against another , so long as they could watch safely from the sidelines .
9 Men like Pericles controlled policy not through any power vested in them but only so long as they could persuade the people .
10 And , and were prepared to do the work so long as they could get the say so from erm the Highways Authority .
11 They do n't care whether I stand on the side of a screen or front stage so long as they can see me , hear me , Karl Gesner .
12 So long as they can sell , AEs will never have to pass the exam .
13 It does not matter whether the golden spike is hammered in somewhere in England or in France or in China , so long as we can make an arbitrary decision , stop arguing about words and get on with the much more difficult ( but much more rewarding ) task of correlation .
14 Whether this is the way they express themselves does not matter so long as we can establish that this is the substance of their view .
15 So but we 're we 're very easy with things , we do n't erm we do n't jump up and down and get cross erm so long as we can get some .
16 So long as we can get it , that 's all I 'm bothered about .
17 These should , on the face of things , be the most reliable sources , so long as we can trust the writer .
18 So long as one could avoid the wretched cliché : girl impeded , hero dangerously tarrying .
19 So long as he can block Labour , his own party will stick together .
20 Therefore he keeps walking , ‘ thinking of nothing so long as he could refrain from thinking ’ .
21 the Crown is not bound to take the advice of a particular Ministry to put its subjects to the tumult and turmoil of a series of general elections so long as it can find other Ministers who are prepared to give it a trial .
22 So long as it could prevent news of discontent travelling from one region to another and igniting a bush-fire of revolt , the Party was able to restore its control relatively quickly and with little loss of life .
23 The coalition has rightly been ready to run these risks to get Iraq out of Kuwait ; but so long as it could achieve that central aim , how much better to do so without further fear of all the weapons in a tyrant 's armoury .
24 Nobody destroys me , and nobody was going to destroy Johnnie so long as I could sit by his bed — some of his family tried to stop me — and will my life force into him . ’
25 ‘ Just so long as I can do something — no matter what — I wo n't feel so helpless . ’
26 I do not mind being told what I can not do , so long as I can accede to an adequate reason why .
27 I do n't know , but so long as I can cure the disease I do n't much care !
28 There 's a bleak line in the book when , his parents divorcing , his father leaving for Europe , Rock quotes himself , aged 11 , saying ‘ I 'll be OK , Dad , I wo n't need Mom so long as I can have the limo . ’
29 Just so long as I can see you . ’
30 He beamed at them again and Caspar was beginning to relax , because it seemed as if they might escape after all and Fenella was remembering about magic being very nearly everyday here , when Pumlumon said , ‘ Of course , that 's so long as I can remember the words . ’
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