Example sentences of "[pers pn] so [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Human beings have never touched me so nearly as now when ‘ Nature ’ was so close : I think , too , I never before struck such firm roots into human hearts ’ . |
| 2 | She left this house to us , and an allowance to Emily so long as she did n't marry , and one to me so long as I stayed with her . |
| 3 | ‘ The position does not matter to me so long as I am playing . |
| 4 | Of the twenty States listed in the Table , thirteen are parties to the more recent Hague Convention of 1965 which does not involve the abrogation of the earlier bilateral Conventions but has in practice superseded them so far as the United Kingdom is concerned . |
| 5 | I was in no mood to stop them so long as I got my mail . |
| 6 | While , therefore , he accepted the idea , of an invisible church of the elect , Whitgift rejected any suggestion that it should be synonymous with the visible church of this world , arguing that : ‘ We must walk in those ways that God hath appointed to bring them [ the reprobate ] to salvation which is to feed them continually and watch over them so long as they are in danger . ’ |
| 7 | We have bread and bacon and butter that 's good , With oatmeal and salt that is wholesome for food ; We have soap and candles whereby to give light That you may work by them so long as you have light . |
| 8 | They really do n't care where they send them so long as call up up Edingley Hill what |
| 9 | And in this particular county one has only got to look to Ryedale who s I so far as I know is the only authority to have carried out a comprehensive survey of local housing needs . |
| 10 | VISITING LADY : Well , Mistress Pamela , I ca n't say I like you so well as this lady does for I should never care , if you were my servant , to have you and your master in the same house together . |
| 11 | ‘ He would n't kill you so long as I 'm alive . |
| 12 | We did n't know her so well as we think . |
| 13 | Did n't know her so well as you did . |
| 14 | She was watching him so intently as he bit into it that he began to wonder if Smallfry was right to fear she would poison him at the slightest opportunity . |
| 15 | Seldom before have England needed him so badly as they go into tomorrow 's third Test in Bombay already beaten 2-0 in the series by India . |
| 16 | She was great with him so long as he kept her occupied . |
| 17 | Joyce met his German contact in the Ministry of Propaganda , Christian Bauer , who was optimistic over finding employment for him so long as there was no war . |
| 18 | as regards any duty or requirement imposed on his employer or any other person by or under any of the relevant statutory provisions , to co-operate with him so far as is necessary to enable that duty or requirement to be performed or complied with . |
| 19 | He certainly has a vision for the Burmese farmer , and I have never liked him so much as I did last night as we sat talking together under the stars . |
| 20 | They do n't like it so well as London . |
| 21 | Anyone can do it so long as they are not criminals or kids , and promise to play by the rules . |
| 22 | Nor is it good news for the majority of people who already own-especially those who became first-time buyers over the past four years and whose complete capital has been wiped out : more than a million such people are probably technically bankrupt but need not admit it so long as they keep paying their mortgage . |
| 23 | They were bound by it so long as it was not in conflict with their statutory duty . |
| 24 | Soviet leaders strove to convince the non-aligned states that Moscow had no objection to the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact or the imposition of restraints on it so long as these measures applied equally to NATO . |
| 25 | ‘ We are very comfortable at Government House and Lady Franklin will not hear of our going from it so long as we remain in town . |
| 26 | The NUWM , however , was under Communist control , and it was difficult to cooperate with it so long as the ILP was regarded as " Social Fascist " . |
| 27 | Many people besides farmers have problems caused by this er tax that , whatever one thinks er about it so far as the system is concerned , really when you look at it more closely it 's the details that have been so badly thought out . |
| 28 | As he watched , I started to drag away the old door that had served us so well as foot-stopper . |