Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] as not to disturb " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no deck chair for me so I sit on the lawn at Ma 's feet and draw some barley water up the straw , gently so as not to disturb Pa who is reading . |
| 2 | Her mother had taken her downstairs so as not to disturb the rest of the family . |
| 3 | She lay down carefully so as not to disturb him . |
| 4 | In the spot-light of an Anglepoise lamp which crouched on a chair like a big , black praying mantis , Finn worked quietly so as not to disturb Francie . |
| 5 | Then she said to me , quietly so as not to disturb the talk , ‘ We shall eat mutton tonight — or Lord Byron and Polidori will , for Percy and I avoid meat . |