Example sentences of "[adv] long as [pron] have [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1 Not so long as we 've got the stuff .
2 Jack would n't shoot so long as he 'd got hold of him .
3 ( 4 ) An applicant shall not be treated as having failed to comply with subsection ( 2 ) ( b ) above if the notice is , without any fault or intention of his , removed , obscured or defaced before the first day of the meeting of the board at which the application is to be considered , so long as he has taken reasonable steps for its protection and , if need be , replacement .
4 So long as it had appeared to be an alternative force to the Labour party , he kept clear .
5 There 's also a guy called Ron Tyson who collects every magazine article ever written about Hendrix … so long as it 's got Hendrix on the front cover .
6 I do n't care if it 's a rubbish route so long as it 's got an E-number .
7 So long as I 've got somebody now there 's nobody along here .
8 ‘ Anyhow , it does n't really matter what you use so long as you 've got the right top . ’
9 SO LONG AS YOU 'VE GOT YOUR ELF , THAT 'S THE MAIN THING !
10 That 's capitalism and you , so long as you 've got buyers and sellers you get this antagonism of interest between buyers and sellers .
11 If they are lost or stolen , you can recover their value so long as you have kept a note of their numbers separately .
12 That Madam , Gary used to say , she 's been forty for as long as we 've known her .
13 Whatever we want from our lives now — the Booker Prize , a recording contract , a promotion , a Porsche convertible , the girl at the Virgin Megastore checkout desk — we can not possibly have coveted it for as long as we have cherished dreams of football glory , dreams which have remained fundamentally unchanged since childhood .
14 When human life could be expected to last two or three times as long as it had done in the Middle Ages , great changes were bound to occur in the way men thought about themselves .
15 ‘ For as long as I 've had memories and before that too .
16 You 've been plaguing the life out of me and everybody else for as long as I 've worked here .
17 I shall refer briefly to one of the matters touched on by the hon. Gentleman , although I shall not speak on it for as long as I had intended , because the hon. Gentleman made wide-ranging reference to it himself , I congratulate him on that .
18 Bad industrial relations had been the curse of the country for as long as I had taken any interest in politics ; although the reform of trade union law was essential , further steps were also needed .
19 Knowing him for as long as I have done must have worked in my favour . ’
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