Example sentences of "long as they could [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Just so long as they could finish this stupid game and get on to his answer . |
| 3 | They were even willing to occupy pre-moulded nests so long as they could carry out their normal movements before laying . |
| 4 | And , and were prepared to do the work so long as they could get the say so from erm the Highways Authority . |
| 5 | Men like Pericles controlled policy not through any power vested in them but only so long as they could persuade the people . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |