Example sentences of "[adv] as it [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That done , ’ he went on determinedly , ‘ and for as long as it takes for him to get you out of his system , you will be my girlfriend . |
| 2 | It takes as long as it does for a dog to douse a tree trunk . |
| 3 | Dick Evans , chief executive , said BAe had to find ‘ an active partner ’ for its turbo-prop business , just as it had for the jet end , but it was ‘ too soon yet ’ . |
| 4 | The neurosis of humanity arose out of the relation to the father , just as it does for the child . |
| 5 | Except that money , in Darcy 's Utopia , will count for nothing : just as it counts for nothing in Moscow today : where pockets are stuffed with roubles but there is nothing to buy . |
| 6 | Her heart was beating wildly as it had for days whenever the telephone bell rang anywhere she happened to be . |