Example sentences of "[adv] as [pron] [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | By contrast gardening , much as we love it , is generally a bit static . |
| 2 | That would slay me , Charles , much as I love it . ’ |
| 3 | One of the best editing techniques is to read the piece aloud as you check it . |
| 4 | So long as we boil it , it should be OK . |
| 5 | The Intifada was perhaps the most convincing refutation ever of the time- honoured , complacent dogma that ‘ the status quo can last as long as we want it to . ’ |
| 6 | He then astonished us by lending us a jeep , with its driver , Abu , for as long as we needed it . |
| 7 | cos I do n't mind what they have so long as they eat it |
| 8 | They will not wear their knuckles out knocking at the West 's door , so long as they feel it will be opened to them before too long . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ There are a hundred ways a firm can get rid of pollution into the river , ’ said an experienced officer , ‘ so long as they do it at the right time . ’ |
| 11 | Everyone dominates central stage for a while , just so long as they need it , only to return it chivalrously after their moment . |
| 12 | I do n't have fancy feelings about where money comes from , so long as I earn it in ways which fit in with my flexible principles . |
| 13 | So long as I keep it up I am still in charge of my own destiny . |
| 14 | Such a government , Lawrence asserted , ‘ would be child 's play for a decent man to run , so long as he ran it like Cromer 's Egypt , not like the Egypt of the Protectorate . |
| 15 | It does n't matter Charlotte , so long as he colours it in |
| 16 | Darlington Tory association chairman Bill Smith said in Saturday 's story that Fallon could have the constituency nomination so long as he wanted it . |
| 17 | Fry claimed he was sacked by Flashman but the latter responded by saying Fry has a job at Underhill for as long as he wants it . |
| 18 | ‘ But not me ? ’ she asked dubiously as she held it up against her . |
| 19 | But members turned the application down as they felt it would cause more late-night trouble . |
| 20 | Before the 17C there were two statues on the bridge , one of the Crucifixion , which Elizabeth of Bohemia ( the Winter Queen ) foolishly insisted should be torn down as she said it looked like a naked bather , and the other of the moderate Hussite king , George Poděbrady . |
| 21 | I 'm only putting the truth down as I see it . |
| 22 | Walked in as I said it . |
| 23 | A screw that goes in as you turn it clockwise is ( arbitrarily ) called right-handed . |
| 24 | I did the well trodden path , with phoebe in As You Like It . |
| 25 | Shakespeare must have thought them common enough : in As You Like It a frustrated Rosalind says , ‘ I prithee , take thy cork out of thy mouth that I may drink thy tidings . ’ |
| 26 | Another television series , Seven Ages ( 1987 ) , an inquiry into the stages of existence enumerated by Jacques in As You Like It , led a critic to christen him ‘ Ron Hot-Eyre ’ . |
| 27 | Emma Croft as Rosalind in As You Like It : Shakey in Cardboard City shock ! |
| 28 | That 's right , so as we mentioned it exert yourselves vigorously |
| 29 | Yeah so as you say it 's a it 's a developing thing and the only |
| 30 | So as you see it 's not a boring job . |