Example sentences of "[adv] as [pron] [verb] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | But just so long as they take me somewhere where there 's the right kind of electricity … |
| 2 | " I do n't care chat becomes of me , So long as they sing me that sheet melody , Yip-I-Addy , I-Ay , I-Ay , Yip-I Addy , I-Ay , I-Ay . " |
| 3 | For as long as it took me to get out of range , several birds used me for bombing practice , coming so close on occasions that ducking was a necessity rather than a flamboyant gesture . |
| 4 | ‘ … so long as you let me in on all the details . ’ |
| 5 | and sharpened up with typical 20th-century cynicism by the American lyricist Stephen Sondheim : I 've got those " God why do n't you love me , oh you do I 'll see you later " blues , That " long as you ignore me , you 're the only thing that matters " feeling , That " if I 'm good enough for you , you 're not good enough " And " thank you for the present but what 's wrong with it ? " stuff . |
| 6 | Kinnock 's more realistic reply was : ‘ That 's fine , Nick , so long as you help me get to Downing Street first . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I wo n't tell Mr Mac , long as you give me a ride on Miss Ellen when you 're done . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ So long as you give me something better than bottom pudding I 'm willing to sit here till nightfall if need be . ’ |
| 9 | Do n't bother about the rent if you have n't got it now , just so long as you pay me as soon as you get back . |
| 10 | ‘ Just you bear in mind that you 've got me now , Kate , and you 'll have me for as long as you want me . |
| 11 | ‘ Well , Kate , I 'll be here for you for as long as you want me . |
| 12 | Even more so as it caught me with a mouthful of pancake and hot sauced prawns . |
| 13 | Let him go … try and let him go as easily as you let me go . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ You never go there , yaar , just as you avoid me now . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Just as you see me . |
| 16 | I need you , Jack , just as you need me . |
| 17 | If he had a new night special , even if he later grew to like her , he would start by trying to play her up just as he had me , and , since she had told me herself , Daisy Yates . |
| 18 | So I wrapped up the conversation as rudely as someone on Newsnight trying to silence a politician , just as he dealt me a social body blow . |
| 19 | The koko serves us tea respectfully , although she smiles at me complicitly as she hands me my mug . |
| 20 | But I stooped like lightning and got the nail up and into my skirt pocket — specially put on — and I was standing exactly as he left me when he jumped back . |
| 21 | ‘ Exactly as he phoned me last night , and told me to come to the wedding . ’ |
| 22 | I want to see you again just as soon as they let me out of this hospital . |
| 23 | Anyway , as soon as they saw me they scampered over and said , ‘ We know you , you 're that Derrick May are n't you ? ' |
| 24 | She stopped as soon as she saw me . |
| 25 | ‘ As soon as she saw me on the doorstep I felt she knew something . |
| 26 | ‘ Bounced out as soon as she heard me call you and came scrabbling up the slope . |
| 27 | Well a as soon as she gave me this erm protective thing to wear and and then told me that I was grown up and every . |
| 28 | He ca n't have talked to them for long , as soon as he saw me coming he cleared off quick . |
| 29 | Ellen was showing Rickie Crowninshield all the elaborate electronic toys that only Ellen wholly understood ; the radios , radars , weatherfaxes and satellite receivers , and Rickie was being surprisingly attentive , but as soon as he saw me he scowled and clamped a pair of headphones over his ears as though to make sure that he did not have to hold any kind of conversation with me . |
| 30 | ‘ I could tell he 'd been drinking as soon as he joined me on the jig . |