Example sentences of "so as [not/n't] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er can I hang this up and no , so as not to take it into the church ? |
| 2 | I was grateful for the radio he had borrowed from the farmer , although I had to play it almost inaudibly , so as not to disturb him . |
| 3 | She lay down carefully so as not to disturb him . |
| 4 | During the week I 'd get home late and sleep in the spare room — ‘ so as not to disturb her ’ . |
| 5 | The intensity of Comfort 's concentration was almost palpable and Julia lay as still as she could and breathed as carefully as her sodden lungs would allow so as not to disturb her . |
| 6 | Lower each slab on to the sand so as not to disturb it . |
| 7 | Why ca n't you put it right immediately so as not to stop something that is going well ? |
| 8 | Greenpeace 's toxics campaigner , Tim Birch , accused the government of playing down the risks so as not to undermine its £4 billion Mersey basin clean-up campaign , which is backed by the EC . |
| 9 | so as not to smirch our own meek versions |
| 10 | She thought for a while , then crossed out ‘ journey ’ the second time and wrote in ‘ trip ’ , so as not to repeat herself . |
| 11 | Normal life , I 'll read out to you , normal life is possible if diet during childhood is adhered to , in the female , if the female suffers , when she becomes pregnant the protein intake has to be monitored so as not to affect her developing baby . |
| 12 | I pulled it off gently , so as not to wake him , moistened a handkerchief with cologne and wiped his forehead . |
| 13 | He 'd returned at dawn , creeping into the apartment so as not to wake her . |
| 14 | She decided to sleep on the sofa so as not to miss anything . |
| 15 | The temperature falls and Nathan pulls the nylon sledge cover up over his head , peering out through a narrow slit so as not to miss anything . |
| 16 | Again , wait a few moments before walking towards the dog , assuming it does stay , so as not to cause it to bound off . |
| 17 | But Dot could see how the lady herself wore white cotton gloves to handle the clothing , so as not to touch it directly . |
| 18 | Hastily , so as not to ruin their own complexions , the Phantasms launched their two shrieking prisoners . |
| 19 | At once , the waiters began to reorganise the tables so that as many as possible could sit under the parasols and to hurry away the unused cushions and linen so as not to let them be soaked . |
| 20 | Carefully stripping off her clothes so as not to jar her ankle , she sat before the fire , softly humming to herself as she savoured the delight of clean skin . |
| 21 | She would never say so , and I probably would n't think such a thing if I were n't pregnant , but pregnant — me thinks : she 's keeping something of me , something of the child I was , in those trunks down there , so as not to lose me entirely , so as not to lose my childhood completely . |
| 22 | She would never say so , and I probably would n't think such a thing if I were n't pregnant , but pregnant — me thinks : she 's keeping something of me , something of the child I was , in those trunks down there , so as not to lose me entirely , so as not to lose my childhood completely . |
| 23 | The prospect of the moth scam was so exciting we even bought platform tickets so as not to blow it at the development stage . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | We travelled separately from Harrison , planned our filming with him in secret , and kept our distance , so as not to jeopardise his campaign . |
| 26 | the flat in , in London , the flat we came from and so we had accumulated a little more furniture than one would usually have in two rooms and the kitchen and we got here and were allowed to spread ourselves , if there 's one criticism that one could say about this house , is that the size of the rooms confines you to what you put in them , they 're square , that the , the division between the living room and the dining room is through a pair of glass doors , where perhaps that could of been arranged with either sliding doors or some other feature so as not to separate it yet again into two square boxes and erm |
| 27 | Mr Sunderland himself had driven her home in his car , and she had begged him to leave her at the gate so as not to alarm her family . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Charlotte said nothing , but her face lit up with pleasure and she bent her head over the baby so as not to show it . |
| 30 | 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 . |