Example sentences of "[prep] his [adj] [noun] so [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another gesture symbolising true Christian Aid was made by Mr Moore , our dynamic Church Officer , who gave up a week of his annual holiday so as to be with us throughout . |
| 2 | At one extreme , the consumer could spend nothing in the present period and save all of his present income so that in the future period he can spend as much as Y t + 1 ; + ( 1 + i ) Y t ; that is , his future income plus his saved present income plus interest . |
| 3 | I should have flung the damned thing out of his open door so that it would bounce down the mountainside up which the road was climbing . |
| 4 | The Bloodthirster lashed out and struck him a terrible blow , breaking the bones of his left arm so that his shield hung useless at his side . |
| 5 | Thus , " the individual creates for himself the patterns of his linguistic behaviour so as to resemble those of the group or groups with which from time to time he wishes to be identified , or so as to be unlike those from whom he wishes to be distinguished " ( Le Page and Tabouret-Keller 1985 : 181 ) |
| 6 | This brings us back to Le Page 's hypothesis : " the individual creates for himself the patterns of his linguistic behaviour so as to resemble those of the group or groups with which from time to time he wishes to be identified " ; only now we can treat " linguistic behaviour " at a micro level , interpreting " from time to time " to mean even at different stages within the same conversation — perhaps even the same utterance . |
| 7 | He is therefore prepared to countenance a reduction in his real wage so as to stave off the threat of dismissal . |
| 8 | A person who is displaying an offensive banner in his front window so that it is visible to all the world clearly ‘ displays ’ within section 18 even if not under section 4 . |
| 9 | The husband not only forked food into his mouth with an almost non-stop movement of his right hand , but he also held a corn bun in his left hand so that food could be put into his mouth to fill the split second it took to reload the fork . |
| 10 | The soldier walked ahead of me , holding his sword in his left hand so that it did n't clatter against the stairs . |
| 11 | Bloom must accept a particular life so that Joyce need not , and Stephen must be shown in his byronic self-deception so that Joyce need not . |
| 12 | He felt them tauten against his palms and suddenly she slid her body over his right knee so that she was lying against him , between his legs . |
| 13 | Leo was sitting at the kitchen table , his large frame almost dwarfing the little wooden chair , arms folded across his massive chest so that it pulled the material of his shirt impossibly tight . |