Example sentences of "[noun sg] so [adv] [conj] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | He told a news conference : ‘ I am very happy with their progress so far and I think they will continue to do well over the next few days . |
| 2 | The same is true of the altogether exceptional recording , which held my concentration so effortlessly that I could hardly believe that nearly a whole hour had passed when I emerged elated at the other end . |
| 3 | When they were privatised I was on the Opposition Front Bench and did the job so well that I am no longer there . |
| 4 | That 's none of my business so long as I do n't have to break any laws . |
| 5 | Only the dull earth can purify me , contact with all else is a defilement so far as I am concerned . |
| 6 | And what we used to do to begin with the canal used to dip in the middle , you know there was bike wheels and dead cats and everything in it , and it used to dip and , and there was a sludge and , and the barges used to go up and down with a horse pulling them , and in the middle there was a , so you could n't bottom it in the middle , so when I learnt to swim I used to dive off this ledge and go under the water so far and I , I could reach the bottom when I got to the other side . |
| 7 | ‘ Meaning , I can have my say so long as I do what you tell me ! ’ |
| 8 | I guaranteed a starting price so long as I got last refusal — he was auctioning the piece . |
| 9 | ‘ Howey made one mistake , but he has had a tremendous season so far and I have no need to worry about him . |
| 10 | I 've always found the men that I 've worked with either it has made no difference that I was a woman so far as I was aware , or else they 've been very helpful . |
| 11 | Oh I have no doubt of course I never I despise the woman so heartily that I never ask any questions about it . |
| 12 | I am topographically accurate , I know the area so well that I simply could n't allow myself to make topographical mistakes . ’ |
| 13 | It all leaves an interesting question mark over the area so far as I am concerned . |
| 14 | They came in illegally low after bombing practice on the range just down the firth , blasting over the island so suddenly that I jumped while in the delicate manoeuvre of teasing a wasp into a jar from the old tree stump near the ruined sheep-pen at the north end of the island . |
| 15 | The Guv'nor told me to ride Ile de Bourbon in the big race telling me that I knew what he could do and that win was the biggest of my career so far but I 'll always remember Lester who had finished nearly last padding disconsolately into the weighing room and asking me ‘ Did you know your horse had improved so much ’ . |
| 16 | ‘ I was personally told he was not concerned about my past so long as I kept up a volume of business , ’ he said . |
| 17 | I knew I would never finish a book so long as I was on the North Shore , either . |
| 18 | When sexual activity results from obsession in a parent with offspring simply because they are offspring ( a rare situation so far as I know ) psychotherapy may rectify deviant desire . |
| 19 | I 've always wanted to work in a bank so even if I had n't have had Louisa it 's basically what I 'd have gone on to do anyway . |
| 20 | I 've gone to see my favourite players play — I 'd see them one night and they 'd be phenomenal and I 'd like the show so much that I would go the next night , drive two hours to see it and it would suuuuck ! and that 's just the way it is . ’ |
| 21 | Self-cleaning oven so far as I knew . |
| 22 | ‘ He gave me six points for this country so clearly that I saw them as if on a black-board and could simply copy them down . ’ |
| 23 | Caught in what promised to be a whirlpool of conflicting dogmatic beliefs , Eric , who did n't care either way so long as I was happy , went off to see Mgr O'Flaherty , a well-known priest who had given help and shelter to large numbers of escaping prisoners-of-war and was now an important figure in the Holy Office . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | There 's a bleak line in the book when , his parents divorcing , his father leaving for Europe , Rock quotes himself , aged 11 , saying ‘ I 'll be OK , Dad , I wo n't need Mom so long as I can have the limo . ’ |