Example sentences of "it [prep] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | He held on to it for as long as he could . |
| 2 | Children grew disobedient when they knew that they could not be set aside : farmers were ousted of their leases made by tenants in tail ; for , if such leases had been valid , then under colour of long leases the issue might have been virtually disinherited : creditors were defrauded of their debts ; for , if tenant in tail could have charged his estate with their payment , he might also have defeated his issue , by mortgaging it for as much as it was worth : innumerable latent entails were produced to deprive purchasers of the lands they had fairly bought ; of suits in consequence of which our antient books are full : and treasons were encouraged ; as estates-tail were not liable to forfeiture , longer than for the tenant 's life . |
| 3 | Playing music is what I love — and I want to do it for as long as possible . ’ |
| 4 | Its purpose is best served if the person concerned can take up this attitude , be with it for as long as is required , and then let it go again when stepping back into ordinary life , then there is no risk of becoming over-identified with it . |
| 5 | If you do give it , give it for as short a time as you can . |
| 6 | They have got enough money but they like to keep it for as long as possible . |
| 7 | She fought it for as long as she could , but it was such a silly thing . |
| 8 | A third option is to part-sell your home either for a capital sum or regular payments , under a home income plan , and continue to live in it for as long as you wish . |
| 9 | He has convinced Roderigo that Othello 's attraction for Desdemona is purely sensual , will soon be satiated , and that then Desdemona will love him ; even though the dupe is constantly doubting that vision , Iago manages to sustain it for as long as he needs to . |
| 10 | Whatever we want from our lives now — the Booker Prize , a recording contract , a promotion , a Porsche convertible , the girl at the Virgin Megastore checkout desk — we can not possibly have coveted it for as long as we have cherished dreams of football glory , dreams which have remained fundamentally unchanged since childhood . |
| 11 | Then freeze it for as long as it takes . |
| 12 | I shall refer briefly to one of the matters touched on by the hon. Gentleman , although I shall not speak on it for as long as I had intended , because the hon. Gentleman made wide-ranging reference to it himself , I congratulate him on that . |
| 13 | If you tell somebody you can it for as little as sixteen pounds per month , guess what , that what they 'll have . |
| 14 | so therefore they 've got it for as long they want it . |
| 15 | A couple of months ago they were pushing it through as quickly as possible . |
| 16 | Alrighty erm I 'll put it through as approved . |
| 17 | If they 're gon na put it through as quick as they can for us , cos they want us |
| 18 | A final point about advertising revenue — and of major importance — was that media to some extent competed for it between as well as among themselves . |
| 19 | Get to the point , tell people what they need to know and do it with as much style , clarity and substance as possible . |
| 20 | Ideally a page should look evenly grey , so that the eye glides over it with as little distraction from the writing as possible . |
| 21 | Food , to them , was a commodity , and they treated it with as little respect as a bar of soap . |
| 22 | Help them to like what they see and to accept it with as much encouragement as you can give . |
| 23 | You need to counteract it with as many positive thoughts about yourself as possible . |
| 24 | The Collector popped it into his mouth , let himself savour the sensation of it wriggling on his tongue for a moment , then crunched it with as much pleasure as if it had been a chocolate truffle . |
| 25 | When tomorrow came , Charlotte faced it with as much resolution and efficiency as she could muster . |
| 26 | Claire Easterbrook , Senior Scientific Officer in the Biology Department and , with Lorrimer 's death , the senior biologist , had taken from her briefcase a scientific paper she had prepared on recent advances in blood grouping and settled down to revise it with as little apparent concern as if murder at Hoggatt 's were a routine inconvenience for which , prudently , she was always provided . |
| 27 | But Jim , bless him , had taken it with as little fuss as if he 'd been asked to feed the cat for a couple of days . |
| 28 | " Enjoy what you do in it and treat it with as much care as you do your home . " |
| 29 | Salt-burning at Droitwich was confined to the six months Midsummer — Christmas — to keep up the price , Leland was told , though he himself thought the real motive was to conserve wood , since the exhaustion of supplies nearby obliged the salters to buy it from as far away as Worcester , Bromsgrove , Alvechurch and Alcester . |
| 30 | The present landlord was all too eager to keep up his predecessor 's reputation in the matter of hollands , and was only too delighted to dispense it to as many Lionisers who requested it . |