Example sentences of "long as it [vb past] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why not go along with Luke 's expansive mood for just so long as it took to finish her drink ? |
| 2 | He said the atmosphere at each gathering had been one of calm , loving concern , and this would continue for as long as it took to get the children home . |
| 3 | ‘ Again , I lived with Mike for as long as it took to get the divorce and then I arranged the wedding . |
| 4 | So long as it had appeared to be an alternative force to the Labour party , he kept clear . |
| 5 | When human life could be expected to last two or three times as long as it had done in the Middle Ages , great changes were bound to occur in the way men thought about themselves . |
| 6 | Writing a doctorate on the British response to the church conflict in Nazi Germany , I was well aware that Dietrich Bonhoeffer had refused to grant that the established national Protestant Church was in fact a Christian church so long as it refused to ordain people who were racially Jewish . |