Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [adv] [adv] as [verb] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I saw some people from school and turned my head away so as to avoid them . |
| 2 | I sit there quietly revising my priorities as far as expending grief goes . |
| 3 | She had put her hair up so as to look older than her sixteen years but even so she straightened her music and her shoulders with such self-consciousness that the maturity of her voice came as a shock to him just as it always did . |
| 4 | Emily swallowed hard , how could she lower her pride so far as to approach the girl she had been so scornful of ? |
| 5 | The Thatched House Society saw their role not only as releasing debtors but making sure they never had to rescue them again . |
| 6 | Who else in that distinguished gathering of philosophers , psychologists , veterinary professors and ethologists would desert their dignity so far as to imitate an animal ? |
| 7 | That fleeting , intense look had addled her brain as well as scrambled her insides . |
| 8 | " From this resolution of the Presbytery Mr Pearson asked to leave the chair , which was granted , to enter his dissent so far as regards Mr Charles McNeill . " |
| 9 | It is very important that you visit and write to or phone your child as regularly as agreed . |
| 10 | ‘ Lots of times I think a president seems so out of your league as far as knowing somebody . |