Example sentences of "so [adv] as i [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Granpa clapped so loud as I returned to my place that some of the mums looked round and smiled , which made the old fellow even more determined to see that I stayed on at school until I was fourteen . |
| 2 | He certainly has a vision for the Burmese farmer , and I have never liked him so much as I did last night as we sat talking together under the stars . |
| 3 | ‘ I was personally told he was not concerned about my past so long as I kept up a volume of business , ’ he said . |
| 4 | Everything went smoothly so long as I lay on my tummy , but when they turned me on to my back I was assailed with a searing pain there . |
| 5 | I was in no mood to stop them so long as I got my mail . |
| 6 | I guaranteed a starting price so long as I got last refusal — he was auctioning the piece . |
| 7 | So long as I stuck to squawks and Pretty fucking Polly , I was fine ? |
| 8 | She left this house to us , and an allowance to Emily so long as she did n't marry , and one to me so long as I stayed with her . |
| 9 | The calculations I must have performed to decide where the ball was going to be , and to hit it , are staggering , but I managed ( so long as I did not stop to ask how I was doing it ) . |
| 10 | So just as I began to read to see , so too I began to write to see . |
| 11 | Here 's money for my meat ; I would have left it on the board , so soon As I had made my meal ; and parted With prayers for the provider |
| 12 | Self-cleaning oven so far as I knew . |
| 13 | ‘ So far as I knew I had attended to every trifling detail , yet every plan , every hope , seemed to be going wrong . |
| 14 | So far as I knew there was no Indian name for Moose Jaw , but I had a brain-wave that might help . |
| 15 | So far as I knew I covered the area around my bowels , liver , one kidney and all the other bits and pieces that make up a living abdomen . |
| 16 | In so far as I did understand it , I welcome his commitment of the Labour party to the Trident programme . |
| 17 | We never rested five minutes that he did not fall asleep and gave us a little nasal music , and which hindered me nothing so fully as I wished to have done . |