Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] so [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | But once or twice in a while I would despair of producing the kind of thing that seemed likely to win approval from one whose standards were so high — impossibly high I felt so far as emulation on my part was concerned — and therefore I had moods in which I would feel unworthy of his attention . |
| 2 | Even so , if you consider the pressures contingent on me that night , you may not think I delude myself unduly if I go so far as to suggest that I did perhaps display , in the face of everything , at least in some modest degree a ‘ dignity ’ worthy of someone like Mr Marshall — or come to that , my father . |
| 3 | ‘ I do n't mind what I do so long as I do n't have too many lines to learn . ’ |
| 4 | I think so long as you can keep the parts of the structure there |
| 5 | You would not think so after reading the paper by Deborah Tannen , of Georgetown University , whose study of repetition in conversation in Language for 1987 she goes so far as to subtitle ‘ towards a poetic of talk ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ Push or pull — who cares so long as the job gets done , ’ Hayman put in . |
| 7 | You can usually carry on with a sport you enjoy so long as you feel comfortable . |
| 8 | Do what you like so long as you do n't get caught . |
| 9 | er you know so far as we can get that erm and I 'll then give you a description of how the theory er predicts your er preferences for behaving in particular ways , would work out . |
| 10 | She knew it did n't matter what she decided so long as there was no doubt about it . |
| 11 | ‘ Anyhow , it does n't really matter what you use so long as you 've got the right top . ’ |
| 12 | And if she did n't rush , how come she fell so heavily as to make that sort of wound ? |
| 13 | She wished so far as possible to respect in her dominions the rights of the provincial estates , the greatest bastions of resistance to change . |
| 14 | You work so hard as my farm manager that I want you to have a larger share of the profits . |
| 15 | If we care about other people — and if we want so far as possible to affirm other people — we shall walk warily before dismissing out of hand , discourteously or clumsily , what is deeply meaningful to them . |
| 16 | In Gloucester in 1831 all three candidates adopted an antislavery stance as a result of being questioned , one going so far as to have ‘ cards in his constituent hats with ‘ No Slavery ’ printed up on them ’ . |
| 17 | One went so far as to describe her life as ‘ tragic ’ . |
| 18 | But must we go so far as to say that the USSR will not resort to force unless she is certain to get away with it ? |
| 19 | We go so far as to say that in choice of partner it is a wise unconscious that falls in love with and marries its own unrecognized problem and then in marriage recreates the problematic situation . |
| 20 | Indeed , if we go so far as to see externalization as inevitably bringing the ego into conflict with reality , then we might conclude that many modern neuroses — perhaps the most severe ones — are likely to become para-psychoses : that is , neurotic conflicts expressing themselves in the language of psychosis . |
| 21 | Everything works so well as it is . |
| 22 | Let them hate so long as they fear . |
| 23 | They said they would send it , they got so far as taking her address , but she changed her mind , she wanted to wear it that night . |
| 24 | By way of contrast members of a moral or rule-based association share nothing other than their recognition of the authority of those practices ; sharers of a common language , for example , may say what they like so long as they comply with the canons of that language . |
| 25 | They treat their women like mules and they fornicate with animals ; indeed in this respect they are so jealous that they go so far as to attach chastity belts to their mares and mules . |
| 26 | They tell me that Mr. Stavanger has a magnificent record , and is very highly thought of in shipping circles — indeed , they went so far as to say that they 'd recommend the bank 's board to support him through thick and thin . |
| 27 | Their discussions included the merger of the Falange and the Traditionalist movement and they went so far as to commission a draft document outlining the project . |
| 28 | Indeed , they went so far as to propose that there should be a separate planning code for minerals . |
| 29 | ‘ The decision was to give them a lot of freedom , letting them take the pictures they liked so long as their interpretations were true to the general concept . |
| 30 | cos I do n't mind what they have so long as they eat it |