Example sentences of "[adv] long as [pron] could [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were even willing to occupy pre-moulded nests so long as they could carry out their normal movements before laying . |
| 2 | Just so long as they could finish this stupid game and get on to his answer . |
| 3 | As far as they were concerned , and like most Arab players in the narcotics game , the DEA was welcome to play one side off against another , so long as they could watch safely from the sidelines . |
| 4 | Men like Pericles controlled policy not through any power vested in them but only so long as they could persuade the people . |
| 5 | And , and were prepared to do the work so long as they could get the say so from erm the Highways Authority . |
| 6 | ‘ So long as one could avoid the wretched cliché : girl impeded , hero dangerously tarrying . |
| 7 | Therefore he keeps walking , ‘ thinking of nothing so long as he could refrain from thinking ’ . |
| 8 | So long as it could prevent news of discontent travelling from one region to another and igniting a bush-fire of revolt , the Party was able to restore its control relatively quickly and with little loss of life . |
| 9 | The coalition has rightly been ready to run these risks to get Iraq out of Kuwait ; but so long as it could achieve that central aim , how much better to do so without further fear of all the weapons in a tyrant 's armoury . |
| 10 | Nobody destroys me , and nobody was going to destroy Johnnie so long as I could sit by his bed — some of his family tried to stop me — and will my life force into him . ’ |
| 11 | This was followed by an interview between the President and Von Papen : and I can not help thinking that , during their conversation together , the former must have assured the latter that , so long as she could hold out against Allied demands , Turkey would abstain from hostile action towards Germany . |
| 12 | She was perfectly happy to live like a student twenty years after art college , anything so long as she could paint . |
| 13 | Open-air dancing under the floodlights , often in long mackintoshes and trilby hats , a fountain that fell from bucket to bucket like the omnipresent rain , a bewhiskered Emett railway , a tree-walk alongside a forty-foot Chinese dragon — people queued patiently to enjoy such simple pleasures whose lack of sophistication seemed very exciting to people , most of whom had never had a foreign holiday or seen café tables with coloured umbrellas or indeed any fresh paint for as long as they could remember . |
| 14 | Afterwards Brewer said he could see Auckland holding the shield for as long as they could keep together their very strong scrum of Olo Brown , Sean Fitzpatrick , Steve McDowell , Michael Jones , Gary Whetton , Robin Brooke , Mark Carter and Zinzan Brooke — All Blacks all . |
| 15 | Like Doreen had always been putting the food on the table , like the old dog Oswald had been there for as long as they could recall . |
| 16 | I 'd loved him for as long as I could remember . |
| 17 | Chris Sharpe , a smiling , sensitive biologist from Leeds , here for as long as he could stay to study primates , passed the test easily . |
| 18 | Most hurtful and unfair of all , though , he had been the butt of jokes about his appearance for as long as he could remember — everything from his ears to his hairline . |
| 19 | For as long as he could remember , people had stared at him . |
| 20 | In fact she had been the powerful sustaining force for as long as he could remember . |
| 21 | She was the daughter of an earl , well-versed in the ways of the world before she had taken the veil , and he had known her for as long as he could remember . |
| 22 | Certainly he had not been in such close proximity to a pretty young girl for as long as he could remember . |
| 23 | After school , she took as long as she could dawdling back . |
| 24 | She watched him for as long as she could bear to , anger warring with a sense of duty , then abruptly she marched into the house , and with gritted teeth and a distinctly martyred feeling she began to resentfully sort out a bag to take with her to Soufrière . |
| 25 | She had no intention whatsoever of breakfasting with him , though , and stayed in her room for as long as she could bear it . |
| 26 | Dot listened as the grown-ups continued to grumble along as they had done for as long as she could remember , like the harmless rumble of gunfire faraway . |
| 27 | Rose Mundy told me of her continual battle with overweight thighs , a problem that had been with her for as long as she could remember . |
| 28 | They went up to the small room where Eve had lived for as long as she could remember . |
| 29 | Ellie ran upstairs , threw off her old blouse and skirt and her much darned stockings , and got hurriedly dressed in her Sunday best , yet another variation on the plain black dress with detachable collar and cuffs she had been wearing for as long as she could remember . |
| 30 | ( Menina was Portuguese for " Miss " , and Candida had called Sara that for as long as she could remember . ) |