Example sentences of "as [adv] [conj] they [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the relatives are able to go to the mortuary or viewing room and be with the person who has died for as long as they feel it to be necessary , then they are more able to start absorbing the fact of their loved one 's death , because again they have the evidence in front of them . |
| 2 | For as long as they continue they are the issue , rather than a grievance for which many people might instinctively have some sympathy . |
| 3 | So we had to as soon as they come we had to open a trench and heel them in do you see . |
| 4 | They were a best-selling group without real fans , more like the Archies than the Sex Pistols , and they lost significance as rapidly as they gained it . |
| 5 | The heart of the matter is the provision of a physical and social environment through which the members of society may gradually withdraw from it as securely and as worthily as they enter it through the environment of home and education . |
| 6 | Believing , as fervently as they say they believe in their Almighty , that money can make up for anything , even bad taste and bad manners . |
| 7 | ‘ Only as far as they know she had n't seen a doctor . ’ |
| 8 | As far as they know you 're co-driver on this working holiday . |
| 9 | They were also content to leave the whole affair as far as they knew it , understood it or had allocated the blame for it . |
| 10 | I put it to Andy that it must have been a blow when they split in 1988 , but he , ever the voice of reason , says , ‘ There was no point in trying to keep them together , it had gone as far as they wanted it to go and they wanted to do something different . |
| 11 | When they have moved forwards as far as they feel they want to go they then leave one of the bottles , place both their hands on the other and have to get back without touching the the floor with any part of their body . |
| 12 | Despite this , most people persist in proposing their ideas at least twice as often as they suggest them ! |