Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] so [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | They really do n't care where they send them so long as call up up Edingley Hill what |
| 2 | We did n't know her so well as we think . |
| 3 | Did n't know her so well as you did . |
| 4 | Anyone can do it so long as they are not criminals or kids , and promise to play by the rules . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | They do n't like it so well as London . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ’ . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | As he watched , I started to drag away the old door that had served us so well as foot-stopper . |
| 11 | 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Hague Convention of 1965 which does not involve the abrogation of the earlier bilateral Conventions but has in practice superseded them so far as the United Kingdom is concerned . |
| 12 | I was in no mood to stop them so long as I got my mail . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 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 | ‘ He would n't kill you so long as I 'm alive . |