Example sentences of "[adj] as [pron] 're [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's as good as you 're going to get , ’ he said silkily . |
| 2 | As long as they 're replaced by something which is an improvement . |
| 3 | And people do n't care what it is Geoff as long as they 're getting something , do they ? |
| 4 | As long as they 're filtering it that 's fair enough . |
| 5 | Yes , right , as long as they 're working , it 's half the battle . |
| 6 | ‘ We do n't accept that our products damage teeth as long as they 're used properly , ’ said spokesman Nick Attenborough . |
| 7 | Well , now there is , as long as they 're allowed to go on calling it a Healey . |
| 8 | Well yesterday we actually went to a school and you show them how to use with a condom demonstrator and allow them to touch the condoms , and in youth clubs you allow them to do practically anything with them , as long as they 're returned , they can blow them up , or they can |
| 9 | Yes , fine , just as long as we 're going to see it . |
| 10 | I 'm happier to stand back and let him do his bit and I 'll do my bit , as long as we 're talking to each other . |
| 11 | ‘ Well , as long as you 're buying , ’ I said defensively . |
| 12 | ‘ You can never be 100pc confident when you go into the championships , but as long as you 're playing well you should be okay . ’ |
| 13 | As long as you 're going somewhere |
| 14 | One of the orderlies said , ‘ As long as you 're giving away women , Khan — ’ |
| 15 | ‘ But the beautiful thing is , life 's like that , it 's a journey , a search , and as long as you 're powered by love and keep on like Stuart , you do n't need the ambiguities resolved . ’ |
| 16 | In America , as long as you 're having a good time right now , it 's valid ; if in the next century it 's all forgotten , then that 's okay too . |
| 17 | Just leave it on basically for about an hour as long as you 're having a conversation |
| 18 | You wo n't , as far as we 're having to buy coal at that price . |
| 19 | but as I wrote this and you know put in the acc th the conflict , it came up to two thousand five hundred words and I taped it and timed it and I 've been butchering it and cutting out all the really nice little sentences and the nice sentences and I 've got it down to two one sixty and now with that announcement on the end , as I 've got it taped , it 's fourteen minutes fifty-nine seconds for a fifteen minute slot , so it 's about as precise as you 're gon na get it . |
| 20 | ‘ Run ’ provides the trad R&B relief ( as close as you 're going to get ) , elsewhere , it 's black sheets of pain , laser guided malady and genuine , heart-tearing beauty . |
| 21 | It 's really quite narrow as you 're going up there . |
| 22 | If you 're politcally motivated only you 're not your own man , and I think that politics in local government as strong as they 're getting now is a bad thing . |
| 23 | We 're not all as bad as we 're painted . |