Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [adv] [adv] [subord] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I saw some people from school and turned my head away so as to avoid them . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | She may know that her tears will relieve her tension more effectively than shouting back or pretending not to notice , or they may be tears of anger rather than the vulnerability so despised by her colleagues . |
| 4 | People hid their self-interest more closely when speaking before relative strangers ; they sometimes also feared reprisals and so censored their opinions . |
| 5 | Emily swallowed hard , how could she lower her pride so far as to approach the girl she had been so scornful of ? |
| 6 | The Thatched House Society saw their role not only as releasing debtors but making sure they never had to rescue them again . |
| 7 | But she 'd bite her tongue off sooner than ask him for any favours . |
| 8 | Who else in that distinguished gathering of philosophers , psychologists , veterinary professors and ethologists would desert their dignity so far as to imitate an animal ? |
| 9 | That fleeting , intense look had addled her brain as well as scrambled her insides . |
| 10 | " 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 . " |
| 11 | The young man was moving his head slowly now while staring at her father . |
| 12 | Vardon owed his success to the simplicity of his golf , using a smooth , rhythmic , upright swing when driving and keeping his head absolutely still when making his putts . |
| 13 | Not only , said Nicky , was this proof positive of the Englishness — indeed the Lancashireness — of Griffiths 's voice , but Griffiths had also said that if cornered in future he would shoot his way out rather than submit to arrest — exactly what he did do . |
| 14 | It is very important that you visit and write to or phone your child as regularly as agreed . |
| 15 | You should also , of course , warn the poor chap first so he can run your job overnight rather than have it tie the system up during the day . |
| 16 | ‘ Lots of times I think a president seems so out of your league as far as knowing somebody . |
| 17 | The quiet discursive approach actually delivers the goods in terms of reforming this nation and increasing our prosperity more effectively than carrying on everything as a flat-out argument . |
| 18 | Always aerate your system adequately especially when keeping Marines . |