Example sentences of "long as i [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As long as I kept just over 80mph I reckoned that , even in a red Porsche , the traffic police would turn a blind eye . |
| 2 | In ex-army gear I would n't be seen , as long as I kept still , sitting on my hands , pale face buried in a heather clump , but those long heads that rose between rasping bites of coarse grass had twitching noses that never stopped their search for the enemy — a very efficient sort of olfactory radar . |
| 3 | As long as I had a sympathetic host , of course . |
| 4 | British Aerospace was brilliant , as long as I had , I had a good reason to go away they 'd give me , they said they 'd pay for , I mean one year I did six weeks away paid and then anot another year I did two months non pay and I still kept me job , that 's when I went up the for two months all I was just labour doing it then . |
| 5 | His name was written on my heart , and would stay there as long as I lived . |
| 6 | I 'd been writing a monthly column for Options as long as I 'd been writing at all . |
| 7 | Both places had latches and as long as I got ten yards ' start on him , I could slam the door shut and slip my half clothes-peg under the latch — I always carried a half clothes-peg for the purpose — and no matter how much he blasphemed and kicked at the door he could n't get in . |
| 8 | It were this greyish thing you know , if I got , as long as I got my car warmed up it took frost , i ice off of window . |
| 9 | No , I do n't mind where I sit as long as I got a seat , ha , ha . |
| 10 | As long as I told a teacher I was alright . |
| 11 | How strict Tata had always been with me as a child ; even taken the strap to me on a couple of occasions , once for pinching ‘ fress ’ , or buns as Mother called them , behind his back — he did n't mind how much I took from the shop as long as I asked — and once for saying ‘ Damn ’ when I cut my finger peeling an apple . |
| 12 | I could prolong the ecstasy as long as I liked , even after he had fallen asleep in my arms and continued sleeping right through my climaxes . |
| 13 | I was surprised to be able to stand and read as long as I liked without feeling a hand on my shoulder . |
| 14 | ‘ They told me that as long as I did not rush back too quickly , I should have another four or five years . |
| 15 | As long as I did not look at her , Sadie resigned herself to wandering behind me . |
| 16 | ‘ I only hung around as long as I did thinking Maggie might come and see me , which she did , ’ Charlie replied . |
| 17 | That was fine by him as long as I did n't mind sleeping on the floor . |
| 18 | I did n't shut the door on him , I left it as long as I dared , but he was going so fast he had n't a hope . |
| 19 | I gave them as long as I dared before cutting up a newsprint lorry and following them . |
| 20 | When I stayed with my husband and children at the Holcombe Hotel in Oxfordshire on the Great Escapes scheme this summer I was told I would get free accommodation as long as I stayed for two nights and paid for dinner and breakfast at a cost of £33.20 each per day . |
| 21 | The answer was that I could play as long as I stayed the audience side of the footlights ! |
| 22 | As the needle got closer to my arm I remembered that it never used to hurt as long as I gripped really tightly the nice bit of perspex they lend you . |
| 23 | As long as I ensured that she was in peak physical condition , it was n't too difficult to get her to fly further the next time . |
| 24 | In spite of being a reservoir , Carsfad provided excellent sport and we had great fun ; as long as I steered well clear of the dam . |
| 25 | I realised that I could have her full attention as long as I caught her interest , and I could only do this by telling the truth , for she could no more be bothered with the niceties of drawing-room small-talk than could a fox . |
| 26 | The debt counsellor said that as long as I paid all the money I was getting from Social Security for the house , they could n't take it away from us . |
| 27 | As long as I maintained my own security . |
| 28 | ( But ) I went back to them , well I had nowhere to go … my mother and father said I could stay as long as I wanted . |