Example sentences of "in his [adj] [noun] so [conj] " in BNC.

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1 He is therefore prepared to countenance a reduction in his real wage so as to stave off the threat of dismissal .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 The soldier walked ahead of me , holding his sword in his left hand so that it did n't clatter against the stairs .
5 ‘ Oh , use mine , ’ I said blithely — which , of course , he did , and put the property in his own name so that when he sold it out from under me there would be no legal come-back !
6 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 .
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