Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Just you bear in mind that you 've got me now , Kate , and you 'll have me for as long as you want me . |
| 2 | I hold him with me for as long as I can before my leg goes dead . |
| 3 | Creating flower wreaths and circles is a family tradition — Elizabeth Jane has been making them for as long as she can remember . |
| 4 | But they could lie safely among them for as long as they liked , and they could move through them easily and unseen . |
| 5 | I do n't know why I kept them for as long as I did . |
| 6 | In terms of giving teachers more chances to learn and to develop it comes down to releasing them for as long as they can with some financial help , some doubling-up of teaching and a well-organized use of locally managed funds . |
| 7 | The fields which Miss Lockwood owned are also left to you , Sara , with the provision that Mr. Preston must have the use of them for as long as he requires for his horses . " |
| 8 | She is yours for as long as you care to keep her . |
| 9 | and if I move that , that on to there , then I on there like that we can even put the red sauce there ca n't we , and see what |
| 10 | ‘ Whilst you remain here with us — and let me say here and now that there will be a place here for you for as long as you wish — you will share in the life of the household and have all provided . |
| 11 | ‘ Well , Kate , I 'll be here for you for as long as you want me . |
| 12 | I mean , Chrissie , are you allowed to have a wedding ceremony tha tha which says erm I 'll love you for as long as I can possibly manage ? |
| 13 | I 'm surprised he stuck to you for as long as he did . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ The truth is that I fought what I felt for you for as long as I could , and even after we made love I told myself that I wanted you , desperately , but that you meant nothing more to me than an object of desire . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ But after knowing you for as long as I have — ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Trusts you about as far as he could spit , ’ Bicker finished . |
| 17 | ‘ Good show , then I 'll try and get you through as soon as possible . |
| 18 | just that I tried the phone room , I 'll take you down there and , I could see you from up here and I said he 's around . |
| 19 | I will quote you from long ago if you doubt it : ‘ Life holds no greater sadness than to be blind in Granada . ’ |
| 20 | If you have not already done so , please lodge 6 copies of the papers previously sent to you on not later than 7 days before the above date . |
| 21 | First of all my physical world constrains me in so far as every other car will be travelling on the left-hand side and my progress might be somewhat impeded if I chose otherwise ; secondly , it is a rule that is being followed by every driver . |
| 22 | A sperm whale , for example , can not see directly fore and aft , a factor made use of by the mariners of old , who quietly crept up upon them from straight astern or dead ahead . |
| 23 | These letters are the letters of a wonderful poet and that truth shines steady through the very shining and alternating feelings with which I look at them in so far as they concern me , that is in so far as they are mine . |
| 24 | Sometimes we got into a shoal of them and pulled them in as fast as we could handle the lines ; sometimes we failed to find any . |
| 25 | The aim is for the parents to fill them in as accurately as possible , so they should be simple to fill in and placed in an easily accessible place in the home . |
| 26 | The aim was to keep them in as long as possible , for without them the people employed to do the menial duties would have no time to relax … |
| 27 | Get the right size , clip them on as tight as possible , stand up and you feel you can hardly walk , let along balance and control a pair of skis . |
| 28 | I 'd loved him for as long as I could remember . |
| 29 | He then makes the kind of silly gaffe — getting his hair cut while Air Force One sits at Los Angeles airport , closing down two runways — that will be the stuff of jokes about him for as long as he is in public life . |
| 30 | I 've wanted him for as long as I can remember . " |