Example sentences of "so [adv] as [pron] do " in BNC.
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| 31 | You strike me as a basically good-natured and decent girl , and if I can be of assistance in putting you back on the right path , I shall be happy to oblige , so long as you do not expect too lengthy or too frequent an exchange . |
| 32 | ‘ So long as you do something , ’ he said . |
| 33 | So long as you do n't arrange a leopard-hunt afterwards . |
| 34 | She smiled , ‘ Do n't forget now , you 're my cousin from Neath come to help with the business , you 're big like my dad , could easily be his nephew and so long as you do n't open your mouth , it should be all right . ’ |
| 35 | And if you get an itch , you can scratch it , so long as you do so badger-style : five to six rapid scratches per second . |
| 36 | There is after all nothing inherently wrong with quoting fiction — with saying , for example , that Baker Street once housed a detective called Sherlock Holmes — so long as you do n't mislead anyone by palming it off as a fact . |
| 37 | It will pay you dividends , so long as you do n't say " Silly old codgers " and put it on a top shelf . |
| 38 | You can avoid any foods you do not like and replace them with others from these lists so long as you do not exceed your daily calorie allowance . |
| 39 | Do what you like so long as you do n't get caught . |
| 40 | Particularly when Granny lives in Nairobi , the shades are spattered with Milpar , you have n't bought a bottle of wine since you opened your Mothercare account , the backless negligee is fine so long as you do n't roll over and reveal the stretch marks on what used to be your breasts , and you feel about as compelled to have sex as you feel compelled to have gangrene . |
| 41 | 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 . |
| 42 | ‘ So long as you do n't gossip with him , no , ’ he said flatly , and turned on his heel to stride coolly out on to the terrace again , so tall he had to dodge the metal chimes that hung over the french windows . |
| 43 | For anyone for whom literary education — like any other — is an exploration of the meanings we have and live by , so far as we do live by meanings , Virgil and Dante are connecting rooms … |
| 44 | Academics can still write evaluative criticism of course , and in so far as they do they are producing the kind of criticism practised by men of letters . |
| 45 | Of contracts for the benefit of the infant , so far as they do not coincide with contracts for necessaries , a contract for the employment of the infant , where his position in life makes employment desirable for him , is a typical case . |
| 46 | In so far as they do , they are troubled : they try to find a way for women to be represented in a religion where the Godhead is conceived in male terms , and a way indeed to be able to associate themselves with a male God or Christ . |
| 47 | I should wish you were brought home in wine rather than to come in so sober and so late as you do . |
| 48 | People just did n't take themselves quite so seriously as they do at Crufts . |