Example sentences of "as long as [pron] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I mean to say as long as they last him . |
| 2 | These males are still in their bright nuptial plumage and as long as they retain it they maintain the high levels of vigilance observed when accompanying their females . |
| 3 | As long as they pretend they have no alliance , none of the four needs say a word about the share-buying . |
| 4 | Dinah paid no heed ; as long as they kept her on , she could put up with whatever came . |
| 5 | ‘ As long as they get me past the post . ’ |
| 6 | Our dad says he does n't mind what people eat , as long as they eat it all . |
| 7 | I do n't care as long as they know them so that somebody else has got some responsibility , she said I just ca n't be getting away with it and and , and erm being irresponsible . |
| 8 | I think they , if they , I mean as long as they know we are going to tell them or give them something each month they ought , ought to begin to look out for it . |
| 9 | Workers rationally support capitalism as long as they believe it best advances their material interests , and they are always likely to do so , given the costs of the transition to socialism . |
| 10 | Whether they 're first or last in this race … or in future life … it does n't matter to Kriss , as long as they give it their very best . |
| 11 | ‘ The fact remains ’ , she wrote , ‘ that differences in status exist , and as long as they exist it is practically impossible , since the lives of children can not be separated from those of their parents , to secure to all children a uniform standard of living ’ ( Rathbone , 1949 , p. 233 ) . |
| 12 | Often they see their profession as a creative art form , which is fine as long as they recall it is also a service industry . ’ |
| 13 | For myself , I wish to say to men that as long as they associate me with an idea of ‘ woman ’ drawn from the past , or suppose that a model for gender relations is to be found in that past , they have failed to see me for the person who I am , or to envisage what equality might mean . |
| 14 | I 'd play for them or write out any song they wanted to learn as long as they gave me ten or fifteen minutes worth of scales and exercises first . ’ |
| 15 | I could understand the term ‘ genetic engineering ’ — well , as long as nobody asked me to speak for a minute without hesitation or deviation — and I recognized ‘ DNA ’ , which was said to be the basic stuff of life . |
| 16 | Erm , well we let them and again we brought out the demonstrator and we let them touch condoms erm do anything they wanted with them as long as we got them back . |
| 17 | She says the birs are very good — as long as we keep them in families and feed all the young that 's all the parents mind about . |
| 18 | But … but , as Mama said , as long as we kept it clean and it was only for a short time … |
| 19 | As long as we tell them we definitely want it . |
| 20 | We do n't mind as long as we make I mean I prefer this because it is to order , we do n't make them to stock . |
| 21 | As long as we feel we can sell them on and make a profit for the NECCR then we will be happy . |
| 22 | True , at death our essence is finally overcome so far as its actualisation in space and time goes , but as long as we live we can go on realizing it in as full a form as circumstances allow . |
| 23 | We may die and no one here will worry too much — as long as we do it according to the rules ! ’ |
| 24 | As long as we say they 're our modules and these are |
| 25 | This is something I was trying to get clarified but I do n't care really as long as somebody gets it . |
| 26 | And then we come to the sixth race which is the eight forty five , well I 'm going to go for Angie Baby here in trap three , she 's erm a little bit of a kidder but she might have the legs of these , as long as something leads her , she 'll come and erm try and do them on the line , so it 's Angie Baby for me there , erm Ruby Blue in trap six is a danger . |
| 27 | ‘ As long as it amuses him , and he has nothing better to do . |
| 28 | Yet , dump a skip on the road outside your house , leave it there as long as it pleases you , subjecting your neighbours to its unlovely sight , and no-one seems too concerned . |
| 29 | Others may have had a succession of live-in boy or girl friends , lasting as long as it suited them both . |
| 30 | However , the natives , who had known yasak , or alman , before the Russians arrived on the scene , and regarded it as a payment by a vanquished people to its conqueror , in the time-honoured manner would pay only as long as it suited them . |