Example sentences of "just so [adv] as [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just so long as we maintain the candidacy . ’ |
| 2 | Just so long as we understand each other . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Good , ’ he said coldly , ‘ just so long as we understand each other . |
| 4 | We succumbed to temptation once , Bernard , but I 'm sure Mary will forgive just so long as we never , ever do it again . ’ |
| 5 | Everyone dominates central stage for a while , just so long as they need it , only to return it chivalrously after their moment . |
| 6 | But just so long as they take me somewhere where there 's the right kind of electricity … |
| 7 | Not necessarily , since both teachers and researchers will ultimately use readability formulae for just so long as they find them of some value . |
| 8 | Just so long as they could finish this stupid game and get on to his answer . |
| 9 | ‘ Fine — just so long as they understand that I mean what I say . ’ |
| 10 | We like to have kings to worship and admire : we love a bit of gold leaf to ooh and ah at : we do n't mind being poor just so long as there 's someone poorer than us . |
| 11 | Even now , gin with ice cold tonic is the spirit I 'd probably choose to take with me to a desert island just so long as there were plenty of lemon groves to hand on my castaway paradise . |
| 12 | I wanted our collaboration , strange as it was , to continue for eve ; , just so long as it kept him beside me . |
| 13 | ‘ Just so long as it does n't get in here . ’ |
| 14 | Just so long as it 's not ‘ gall ’ , ’ Lily said . |
| 15 | Sport encompasses things like hunting , all sorts of hunting : fox , hare otter , camel or whatever , just so long as it is conducted with hounds . |
| 16 | Why not go along with Luke 's expansive mood for just so long as it took to finish her drink ? |
| 17 | Any word could follow any other word , just so long as it matched the phonetic input description . |
| 18 | Does n't make any difference just so long as it 's equivalent to two pints of lager . |
| 19 | Just so long as you are not intending to ask me not to leave London . |
| 20 | Do n't bother about the rent if you have n't got it now , just so long as you pay me as soon as you get back . |
| 21 | And speak your own language , please : we 'll even teach it to you in our schools to prove how understanding we are , just so long as you do our dirty work for less wages than our own kind are prepared to accept : just so long as you keep yourselves to yourselves , and do n't let your children marry ours , because what we 're all terrified of , so terrified the word 's gone out of the vocabulary . |
| 22 | And speak your own language , please : we 'll even teach it to you in our schools to prove how understanding we are , just so long as you do our dirty work for less wages than our own kind are prepared to accept : just so long as you keep yourselves to yourselves , and do n't let your children marry ours , because what we 're all terrified of , so terrified the word 's gone out of the vocabulary . |
| 23 | ‘ Just so long as you 're not planning any physical attacks on me this evening … |
| 24 | But they have to call in a vet from time to time , and it 's with those farmers that I think you 'll have most success , just so long as you keep your charges low . ’ |
| 25 | Just so long as I can see you . ’ |
| 26 | You did n't care if I was in any danger , just so long as I was suitably humbled ! ’ |
| 27 | Just so long as I know . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Just so long as I can do something — no matter what — I wo n't feel so helpless . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ A good governor does as he pleases on his world , just so long as he pays his tithes in treasure and people . |
| 30 | In the sonnet just quoted , for instance , Shakespeare presents the Poet in a humiliating situation , indifferent to the behaviour of the Mistress with other men just so long as he gets some share of the action . |