Example sentences of "[adv] as i [verb] [not/n't] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The calculations I must have performed to decide where the ball was going to be , and to hit it , are staggering , but I managed ( so long as I did not stop to ask how I was doing it ) . |
| 2 | I know that so long as I do n't manage to count up to one hundred before the spasm ceases , I shall live . |
| 3 | ‘ I do n't mind what I do so long as I do n't have too many lines to learn . ’ |
| 4 | That 's none of my business so long as I do n't have to break any laws . |
| 5 | I 'm thinking there might be something wrong with my plan to wait as I close my eyes ( only to rest them ) , but even as I yawn and put my hands into my armpits I think a spot of rest is n't such a bad idea so long as I do n't fall asleep . |
| 6 | ‘ He has enough sauce for a king 's fool , but impudence I can stomach so long as I do n't have to ride something that big on my own . ’ |
| 7 | Especially as I do n't like colour and I only like black and white . |
| 8 | The first month was absolute hell , especially as I did n't have a watch . |
| 9 | When you were here before I was only a schoolboy and er just er old enough to know everything that was going on , as you might say , but young enough so as I did n't get too involved . |
| 10 | Much as I would like to assist the hon. Gentleman , I can not as I do not accept that transport for students at boards of management colleges should remain with education authorities . |
| 11 | Just as I had n't minded when asked if I would like to take care of Jeffrey Bernard for a few days while he was in Sydney to promote the play about himself , Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell , which is currently playing here . |
| 12 | erm In fact a simple formulation of this problem occurs in the opening paragraphs of À la Recherche , erm when the narrator writes this : ‘ When I woke in the middle of the night , I could not tell where I was , just as I did not know at first who I was . |
| 13 | ( I do not pretend to understand precisely how this occurs , just as I do not ‘ understand ’ why an apple falls to the ground . |
| 14 | As soon as I decided not to go farther than Cambridge , I wanted to stop dead in the middle of the road . |
| 15 | What well mainly what what is the I mean , these thinner ones , presumably they would do the job as well as I do n't know I mean , it 's keeping out What I want to do is to keep out the sun . |
| 16 | I got up quite late today as I do not do anything important and it is my one real chance for a lie-in . |
| 17 | ‘ I 've started at the College , ’ he told Bobby Hunt , ‘ — it 's very nice there as I do n't have to do anything : the paintings though are past belief . ’ |
| 18 | I did n't mention it to Kenneth initially as I did n't want to spoil his holiday , but my martyrdom was brief and his subsequent concern touching . |