Example sentences of "long [subord] [pers pn] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ As long as they get me past the post . ’ |
| 2 | For myself , I wish to say to men that as long as they associate me with an idea of ‘ woman ’ drawn from the past , or suppose that a model for gender relations is to be found in that past , they have failed to see me for the person who I am , or to envisage what equality might mean . |
| 3 | She says the birs are very good — as long as we keep them in families and feed all the young that 's all the parents mind about . |
| 4 | Divergent sexuality , it is clear even now , is only permissible as long as it allows itself to be stolen , as long as it conforms to existing industry patterns and dominant sexual stereotypes . |
| 5 | ‘ I could live an ascetic life , lad , as long as it included plenty of whisky and tobacco . ’ |
| 6 | It was as if poets owed an explanation to the audience for being what they were , to bring creatures apart down to the level of ordinary folks ; as if the poet might be indulged his little failings and eccentricities as long as he allowed himself to be democratically mauled in public by thoughtless questioners or — even worse , much worse — by fellow-poets or by those who had poetic pretensions and who found in ‘ question time ’ an opportunity to assuage their jealousy or seek revenge for their own incompetence and mediocrity . |
| 7 | Apparently as long as I get it on a P C disk , five inch |
| 8 | ‘ As long as I do something outside the parish , ’ Anna said , ‘ does it matter what I do ? ’ |
| 9 | when I was sixteen because it 's then I started to get these free passes and I had a sister then who lived at Rye and I had never been across London so the next door neighbour came with me to see me across London er because I was so young you see and I said right as long as you show me across London I can come back alone , you see , and so I came back alone and I , that 's when I started , so from sixteen and er and as I say I went to Cambridge in the nineteen thirty one , it was the last day of well say nineteen thirty two , you see , and , and also in the twenties I was going on holiday alone and I went to once er to the Isle of Man and when I was er I , I sat next , well being by myself , you see , they put me in , to a little table near the wall . |
| 10 | If your letter is not delivered on the first working day after your posted it — as long as you posted it in time to get there — then we automatically refund your fee . |
| 11 | There are , though , a number of waves on a reach and as long as you limit yourself to three distinct pumps with a clear pause before the next set you should be alright . |
| 12 | There 's nothing wrong with a bun as long as you decorate it with a hair accessory . |
| 13 | You can have been had by the whole of Fighter Command as far as I 'm concerned ; just as long as you add me to the list . ’ |
| 14 | He knew , he said , that he was just an ordinary farmer 's son and she was a famous Beauty , known the county over , never a word spoken against her even by the men who bivouacked up in the fells — but he would have no-one else and would wait just as long as she told him to . |
| 15 | She knew that , as long as she applied it with care , she had great power over Bernard . |
| 16 | As long as she approaches everything with as much fascination and energy as she does now , she 'll retain her freshness forever . |