Example sentences of "as [adv] [conj] they [verb] it " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | They were also content to leave the whole affair as far as they knew it , understood it or had allocated the blame for it . |
| 5 | 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 . |