Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] so as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah I mean so as they 're not stood there doing nothing . |
| 2 | The extreme poverty of the whole concern is pathetic , and I wished I 'd paid more for the things I bought so as to make life easier for these tanners who look just about ready to give up . |
| 3 | A sense of loss of identity causes the voyager to project what he or she encounters so as to perceive it as an external phenomenon , and also to introject elements of the familiar world in order to recreate a recognizable context . |
| 4 | Where you know so as not to have to risk going having to go to an expensive B and B because all the cheap places have gone . |
| 5 | When we talk about it ( now all too common in public ) , we do so as though it had set fast , even for a moment , in some way . |
| 6 | We may seek out partners incapable of loving us in the way we need so as to experience again the brief hope that this time it will be all right or as Lisa Minelli sang in the film Cabaret , ‘ This time I 'll be lucky ’ , before the pain sweeps in again to overwhelm us . |
| 7 | Suppose that the father had later authorised the creditor to sue for the balance of the debt — or required him to do so as trustee ( see Vaughan Williams L.J. ) ? |
| 8 | Please permit her to do so as arranged with you by phone . |
| 9 | It was to meet cases of this kind that Equity invented the great remedies of specific performance and injunction : specific performance to compel a man actually to do what he has promised — to give you the land in return for the money , to pay you the purchase money in return for the land ; injunction to forbid him to do what he has promised not to do or what he has no right to do — to forbid him to open the public house or the music-school , to forbid him to build so as to block up your light , even to compel him to pull down the objectionable wall ; the last sort of injunction is called mandatory . |
| 10 | In 1896 it had been well over half a century since Parliament had made specific grants to build parish churches and if Church schools got grants they did so as voluntary , not as Church schools : Roman Catholic , Methodist and ‘ British ’ schools were equally entitled to the grants . |
| 11 | He is polite and very careful about what he says so as not to offend anyone . |
| 12 | HSE 's director-general , , said : ‘ Law that is fussy or demands unnecessary detail is ineffective and also gives too many opportunities to consultants and others to exaggerate what it requires so as to get themselves business — quite a problem at present . ’ |
| 13 | Rachel could have brought the snow in and let it melt so as to distract attention from herself . |