Example sentences of "long as [pron] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ So long as one could avoid the wretched cliché : girl impeded , hero dangerously tarrying . |
| 2 | We waited in the safety of the cellar for as long as we could , but there was no ‘ All Clear . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ That was believed important , for with the Enchantment useless , we knew that we had to keep the Wolfline alive for as long as we could . |
| 4 | Open-air dancing under the floodlights , often in long mackintoshes and trilby hats , a fountain that fell from bucket to bucket like the omnipresent rain , a bewhiskered Emett railway , a tree-walk alongside a forty-foot Chinese dragon — people queued patiently to enjoy such simple pleasures whose lack of sophistication seemed very exciting to people , most of whom had never had a foreign holiday or seen café tables with coloured umbrellas or indeed any fresh paint for as long as they could remember . |
| 5 | Men like Pericles controlled policy not through any power vested in them but only so long as they could persuade the people . |
| 6 | They were even willing to occupy pre-moulded nests so long as they could carry out their normal movements before laying . |
| 7 | Like Doreen had always been putting the food on the table , like the old dog Oswald had been there for as long as they could recall . |
| 8 | Afterwards Brewer said he could see Auckland holding the shield for as long as they could keep together their very strong scrum of Olo Brown , Sean Fitzpatrick , Steve McDowell , Michael Jones , Gary Whetton , Robin Brooke , Mark Carter and Zinzan Brooke — All Blacks all . |
| 9 | Emily stared at them in horror but then a few bills did n't mean anything , most people hung on to their money for as long as they could , it was simply the way of businessmen . |
| 10 | They talked about other Christmas flops and bombs , delaying for as long as they could any mention of TCT 's ‘ T is He Whose Yester-evening 's High Disdain ’ , which had cost practically nothing to make and had already done 120 million in its first three weeks . |
| 11 | As far as they were concerned , and like most Arab players in the narcotics game , the DEA was welcome to play one side off against another , so long as they could watch safely from the sidelines . |
| 12 | And , and were prepared to do the work so long as they could get the say so from erm the Highways Authority . |
| 13 | Just so long as they could finish this stupid game and get on to his answer . |
| 14 | We knew we were safe , so long as they could n't spot individuals and target them for later , and in the darkness the Danuese let the malais know what they thought of them . |
| 15 | Dot listened as the grown-ups continued to grumble along as they had done for as long as she could remember , like the harmless rumble of gunfire faraway . |
| 16 | After school , she took as long as she could dawdling back . |
| 17 | Rose Mundy told me of her continual battle with overweight thighs , a problem that had been with her for as long as she could remember . |
| 18 | They went up to the small room where Eve had lived for as long as she could remember . |
| 19 | They 'd fallen asleep , a head on each shoulder and she was determined to leave them like that for as long as she could . |
| 20 | She fought it for as long as she could , but it was such a silly thing . |
| 21 | Ellie ran upstairs , threw off her old blouse and skirt and her much darned stockings , and got hurriedly dressed in her Sunday best , yet another variation on the plain black dress with detachable collar and cuffs she had been wearing for as long as she could remember . |
| 22 | ( Menina was Portuguese for " Miss " , and Candida had called Sara that for as long as she could remember . ) |
| 23 | For the first time she felt a faint stirring of compassion for her own mother , whose obsession with her appearance , shopping , flirtation and gossip Julia had despised for as long as she could remember . |
| 24 | For as long as she could remember she had herself been in love with the man who led the greyhounds and their attendants on a dignified procession round the track before the race began . |
| 25 | My mother took pity on him and agreed to keep him for as long as she could . |
| 26 | She had basked in the knowledge for as long as she could remember . |
| 27 | He felt warm and solid , safe , and , so long as she could n't see the mockery that sometimes filled his eyes , she could pretend , could n't she ? |
| 28 | This was followed by an interview between the President and Von Papen : and I can not help thinking that , during their conversation together , the former must have assured the latter that , so long as she could hold out against Allied demands , Turkey would abstain from hostile action towards Germany . |
| 29 | Yet for as long as she could remember she 'd been instructed to do so . |
| 30 | She was perfectly happy to live like a student twenty years after art college , anything so long as she could paint . |