Example sentences of "so [adv] as your " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do understand that the burden of an elderly , dependent relative , even of one so sprightly as your mother , can be great . |
| 2 | So long as your people will take them food . |
| 3 | But the sunrise of impending suicide bathes him and others in fiery metaphysical comedy ; , ‘ be as free as you like , ’ Peter Verkhovensky tells him , ‘ so long as you do n't change your mind ’ — that is ‘ so long as your entirely free intention is carried out ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ So long as your prick is n't made of wood as well as ! ’ she had said with a laugh to make him feel easy . |
| 5 | He derided those who thought it was ‘ all right to stay in opposition so long as your socialist heart is pure ’ , and argued it was not they who suffered , but the poor in Britain and in the third world : ‘ We are not just a debating society . |
| 6 | Beyond these basic costs , most stations offer a number of ‘ packages ’ such as run-of-week , or based on numbers of TVRs , where they may run your commercial at any time they like , as many times as they like , so long as your eventual cumulative audience reaches an agreed figure . |
| 7 | The minister could never say to the board , ‘ right , now you have a logical remit , go away and fulfil it and so long as your rate of return is what it ought to be , we will not interfere ’ ( SCNI 1968 : 431 , 434–6 ) . |
| 8 | If you have visitors who let the cover droop helplessly , like a child raised by one arm and dangling in mid-air , cross them off your visiting list so far as your books are concerned . |
| 9 | ‘ It might have been a dozen so far as your conduct of the operations is concerned , ’ said one of Joyce 's companions . |
| 10 | ‘ I ‘ disapprove ’ only in so far as your adventurous inclinations affect my own family , I assure you . |