Example sentences of "so [adv] as [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Emily sighed heavily , no more would she sit beneath those trees reading or idling away her days so carelessly as she had done , was it only a few short weeks ago ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | So long as they believed in themselves they could make shift with constitutions and parliaments and dull republics . |
| 5 | That way everyone born after that particular time would have their sins forgiven so long as they believed in Jesus . |
| 6 | Only later was this amended to allow the return of Yugoslavs home so long as they went willingly . |
| 7 | Two people lingered , fingering the scarves , and she put her head down , feigning ignorance , or ineptitude , or just plain stupidity — whatever , so long as they went away without asking her the price of anything ! |
| 8 | The limitations on the power of these liberal groups within protestant loyalism are demonstrated by the fact that they have only been allowed to function among the leadership of the people so long as they obeyed the basic tenets and values common to the alliance as a whole . |
| 9 | ( c. 1 ) Writing shortly after Charles 's death , he believed that a new generation of both kings and nobles could preserve the realm so long as they had the right personal qualities . |
| 10 | Seeing that the independents would be slowly strangled so long as they relied exclusively upon the British circuits , he sought to establish connections to Hollywood . |
| 11 | AT THE beginning of the 20th century Texan lobbyists could get more or less what they wanted so long as they kept politicians supplied with the three Bs : beefsteak , bourbon and blondes . |
| 12 | Most of them arose as a result of an all-Russian phenomenon in 1922 — the lack of co-ordination and exchange of information between the centre and the localities , together with nonchalant neglect of provincial problems so long as they did not affect central political issues . |
| 13 | So she sent them on immediately , longing to know what they contained and never finding out , but supposing that so long as they did keep coming the worst could not yet have happened . |
| 14 | Even among senior players , outside pursuits were tolerated only so long as they did not affect a player 's performance or make football of secondary importance to him . |
| 15 | As soon as I saw you riding , I knew you 'd make it — so long as they did n't get to you . |
| 16 | He could make concessions to his allies and all would be well so long as they did not come into conflict with one another . |
| 17 | To do otherwise would be to break the long-established political tradition of allowing people to hold whatever views they liked , so long as they did not break the law or urge others to do so . |
| 18 | LORD WRIGHT : I think the jury should be directed by the judge that the respondent Association had a legal right to put the person 's name on the stop list , so long as they did so in order to promote the trade interests of the Association and its members and not with intent to injure , and so long as the money , fine or penalty demanded was reasonable and not extortionate . |
| 19 | Nevertheless , so long as they did not organise — and sometimes even when they did — the workers themselves provided their employers with a solution to the problem of labour management : by and large they liked to work , and their expectations were remarkably modest . |
| 20 | ‘ Leeds City could not be suspended as a club — we had no power to do that ; but so long as they refused to give up those vital papers , we could have no way out save by expelling them . |
| 21 | Officers should be allowed ‘ to take part in conspiracies to import drugs so long as they withdrew prior to importation . ’ |
| 22 | It was to be the stumbling block ; for if the Emperor abandoned the Clauses he would antagonize Britain , while so long as they remained , Russia would not respond to his requests for an alliance . |
| 23 | Most commonly young women entered , and so long as they remained unmarried , stayed in domestic service . |
| 24 | Not so long as they handed over the pound notes — though smiling Clyde took most of those , the greedy sod . |
| 25 | And they despised her for it , some of them , and they feared her for it , most of them ; but she did not care , so long as they paid her enough to be drunk on until the need to kill was irresistible again . |
| 26 | So long as we looked upon the production of value and the value of the product of capital individually , the bodily form of the commodities produced was wholly immaterial for the analysis , whether it was machines , for instance , corn , or looking glasses . |
| 27 | It was a pursuit which we could only continue , of course , so long as we managed to sell our films to commercial television simply on the strength of their entertainment value . |
| 28 | Never , so long as we lived , he said , were we to mention to anyone , not our next-of-kin , not even those in other sections of the Station , what was the nature of our work . |
| 29 | Ninez saw no reason to complain or criticise so long as we marched fast enough . |
| 30 | At first it was men who were not allowed into the house and although this position resulted in a lot of criticism and ridicule , most feminists had some sympathy so long as we did n't seriously advocate separatism for all women . |