Example sentences of "[adv] as they [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | cos I do n't mind what they have so long as they eat it |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 5 | Everyone dominates central stage for a while , just so long as they need it , only to return it chivalrously after their moment . |
| 6 | But members turned the application down as they felt it would cause more late-night trouble . |
| 7 | Painting was to become intellectual , and the painters would depict the world not as they saw it , but as they knew it to be . |
| 8 | He merely notes that the bad news for technological illiterates is that the world is not as they think it is , and if they are interested in the truth his book will fill some gaps . |
| 9 | They were as relaxed as you 'd expect a couple of dogs to be in the midday sun in the West Indies and clearly had life exactly as they wanted it . |
| 10 | The best feature of Dashboard is the Customisation , where every user can modify the ‘ look and feel ’ of their day-to-day Windows desktop exactly as they want it . |
| 11 | So valuable is it that some scientists regard it as a scent and as soon as they detect it , they know that they are on the right track . |
| 12 | ‘ And as soon as they realised it was an emergency , the offending drain was fitted with a plug . ’ |
| 13 | as soon as they get it |
| 14 | Cos as soon as they go it 's all gone a bit |
| 15 | ‘ As soon as they reported it , Ipuky was informed and I was sent for . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | And to an old person , ‘ setting the record straight ’ , or straight as they saw it , could be very important . |
| 19 | And erm that 's when you er when you had your a a a new new rig out as they called it in those days , they called it a rig out , new rig out in those days . |
| 20 | They were also content to leave the whole affair as far as they knew it , understood it or had allocated the blame for it . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The embalmers worked skilfully , even as they brought it here . |
| 23 | For instance , there is usually a starting assumption that individuals make history , at least by the sum of their actions and even if not quite as they intended it to be . |
| 24 | Jean felt belittled ; for as long as the dance lasted she seemed no more to him than any girl there , but then he came round to her again and clasped her closely as they stepped it down the aisle between the lines of dancers . |
| 25 | At high rates of interest , people may feel it worthwhile to put some of their income in a savings account on pay day and draw it out again as they need it later in the month . |
| 26 | In the light from the glowing pillars they could see it twist and settle slowly as they disturbed it . |