Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [adv] [adv] [subord] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , when the farmer had left the house , his wife went out to the stable and saddled the pony. then she put on her husband 's best clothes , tied the turban high so as to look as tall as possible , jumped astride the pony , and set off to the field where the tiger was waiting . |
| 2 | ‘ I am very far from saying that in every case in which a child is proving difficult to manage , a parent is entitled to strike the child so hard as to cause injuries of the kind in this case . |
| 3 | The tunes were in a slow waltz time but played with that characteristic thump which accentuates the first beat of the bar so strongly as to obliterate everything else , reducing any melodic line to a tribal dance . |
| 4 | The later Mariner 10 probe , launched in 1974 , confirmed that the dense sulphuric clouds moved across the sky so rapidly as to create violent storms at the surface . |
| 5 | Leech was examined on 18th August 1669 to see if he was able " to instruct the youth so far as to fit them for the universities " by a panel composed of Dr. Slater , Mr. Watson ( Schoolmaster of Sutton 's Hospital ) , Mr. Holmes ( Schoolmaster of Christ 's Hospital ) , and Mr. Crumland ( a master from St. Paul 's ) . |
| 6 | By all means use them when they are needed or appropriate , but there is no call to construct a headline especially so as to include one or more of them . |
| 7 | It was pretence , Cecilia knew , for no one could help feeling an embarrassment so deep as to amount to actual dumb fear in the face of such a performance . |