Example sentences of "his [adj] [noun] [adv] as " 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 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 .
3 Asshe himself sat in the midst , the long grey beard he had grown for Lear spreading out abundantly , his white hair wild as though on the blasted heath .
4 The man jabs his left ski down as Odd-Knut goes by , gets the ski between dog and trace and is hauled over and forwards .
5 There was the harsh edge of authority in his deep voice now as he demanded an answer , but Fran ignored it .
6 He had little in common with other boys and girls in his neighbourhood and he remembers his secondary school simply as ‘ horrid ’ .
7 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 )
8 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 .
9 There you will see the sign , a big board … that 's where … he smiled his big smile again as he tore off the piece of paper and handed it over to me .
10 Despite the passion in Glasgow he did not have to show his yellow card once as Rangers won 2-1 and Wilkinson said : ‘ It 's always important to have a good referee , but I 've been pleased with the standard of refereeing this season . ’
11 So all we have to do is to tell the Governor-General of Canada to behave in relation to his local Parliament exactly as our monarch at home behaves in relation to her Parliament of the United Kingdom . ’
12 He is as determined to preserve his positive face here as he is to defend his negative face in scene three .
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