Example sentences of "long as [pron] [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There has been no love lost between Scots and English at big sporting occasions for as long as one can remember , but it seems that England 's rugby aficionados find it hard to forgive Scotland for that Grand Slam defeat in 1990 . |
| 2 | ‘ So long as one could avoid the wretched cliché : girl impeded , hero dangerously tarrying . |
| 3 | It does not matter whether the golden spike is hammered in somewhere in England or in France or in China , so long as we can make an arbitrary decision , stop arguing about words and get on with the much more difficult ( but much more rewarding ) task of correlation . |
| 4 | Wooden dowel has been used for kite spars for as long as we can recall . |
| 5 | So but we 're we 're very easy with things , we do n't erm we do n't jump up and down and get cross erm so long as we can get some . |
| 6 | So long as we can get it , that 's all I 'm bothered about . |
| 7 | These should , on the face of things , be the most reliable sources , so long as we can trust the writer . |
| 8 | Whether this is the way they express themselves does not matter so long as we can establish that this is the substance of their view . |
| 9 | Cynics are betting that the romance is a huge publicity stunt to help sell the firm : ‘ The relationship will last as long as they can use each other , ’ says one . |
| 10 | They do n't care whether I stand on the side of a screen or front stage so long as they can see me , hear me , Karl Gesner . |
| 11 | So long as they can sell , AEs will never have to pass the exam . |
| 12 | She is certainly not one of those who have been living on mung beans for as long as they can remember . |
| 13 | You can not pretend to people who , like you , have been pretending for as long as they can remember : they do not let you get away with it . |
| 14 | As far as they were concerned , and like most Arab players in the narcotics game , the DEA was welcome to play one side off against another , so long as they could watch safely from the sidelines . |
| 15 | Just so long as they could finish this stupid game and get on to his answer . |
| 16 | They were even willing to occupy pre-moulded nests so long as they could carry out their normal movements before laying . |
| 17 | And , and were prepared to do the work so long as they could get the say so from erm the Highways Authority . |
| 18 | Men like Pericles controlled policy not through any power vested in them but only so long as they could persuade the people . |
| 19 | Like Doreen had always been putting the food on the table , like the old dog Oswald had been there for as long as they could recall . |
| 20 | Afterwards Brewer said he could see Auckland holding the shield for as long as they could keep together their very strong scrum of Olo Brown , Sean Fitzpatrick , Steve McDowell , Michael Jones , Gary Whetton , Robin Brooke , Mark Carter and Zinzan Brooke — All Blacks all . |
| 21 | Open-air dancing under the floodlights , often in long mackintoshes and trilby hats , a fountain that fell from bucket to bucket like the omnipresent rain , a bewhiskered Emett railway , a tree-walk alongside a forty-foot Chinese dragon — people queued patiently to enjoy such simple pleasures whose lack of sophistication seemed very exciting to people , most of whom had never had a foreign holiday or seen café tables with coloured umbrellas or indeed any fresh paint for as long as they could remember . |
| 22 | I 'd fetch her home , clean her up , straighten her out and take care of her for as long as she 'd let me , but the call of the wild was strong and after a few days of sleeping on the couch , she 'd vanish again . |
| 23 | Angela has been fascinated by antiques for as long as she can remember . |
| 24 | Creating flower wreaths and circles is a family tradition — Elizabeth Jane has been making them for as long as she can remember . |
| 25 | The writing has been a hobby for Vanessa for as long as she can remember but she has recently started trying to turn it to profit . |
| 26 | She was perfectly happy to live like a student twenty years after art college , anything so long as she could paint . |
| 27 | She watched him for as long as she could bear to , anger warring with a sense of duty , then abruptly she marched into the house , and with gritted teeth and a distinctly martyred feeling she began to resentfully sort out a bag to take with her to Soufrière . |
| 28 | She had no intention whatsoever of breakfasting with him , though , and stayed in her room for as long as she could bear it . |
| 29 | This was followed by an interview between the President and Von Papen : and I can not help thinking that , during their conversation together , the former must have assured the latter that , so long as she could hold out against Allied demands , Turkey would abstain from hostile action towards Germany . |
| 30 | After school , she took as long as she could dawdling back . |