Example sentences of "[adv] so as not [to-vb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had said he must marry only so as not to disappoint his mother ; but should he come to her one day and say he was about to marry someone , that would assuredly beat her into the ground . |
| 2 | She lay down carefully so as not to disturb him . |
| 3 | For instance , the morning after one night when he 'd stayed until about 5 , so I 'd had very little sleep , I walked around , phased out really , feeling a little bit of an invalid , rather frail and light-headed , but very peaceful , walking carefully so as not to jolt anything , and I felt I was nursing a bit of heaven . |
| 4 | Quietly , Connor crossed the room , opening the door cautiously so as not to waken his parents in the big bedroom at the other end of the landing . |
| 5 | Why ca n't you put it right immediately so as not to stop something that is going well ? |
| 6 | From Tripoli the advance into Tunisia involved him in some of the bitterest fighting of the war : in the Matmata Hills on the outflanking of the Mareth Line ; at Wadi Akarit , where he had a narrow escape when he received ( as he modestly put it , doubtless so as not to worry me unduly ) ‘ a wallop from a piece of spent shell ’ , but was not badly injured ; and at the drive north to Enfidaville . |