Example sentences of "and [adv] so as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tolkien could be learned and practical at once , a style common enough in Old English but ( he probably reflected ) less and less so as the Norman Conquest and the Renaissance wore on , seeing to it that ‘ education ’ meant increasingly ‘ education in Latin ’ and the creation of a distinctive literary caste . |
| 2 | And rightly so as well . |
| 3 | This exercise must be done slowly and carefully so as not to let the barbell drop from your fingertips . |
| 4 | Stephen tied it up but the string broke and he had to drive the car into Hilderbridge very slowly and carefully so as not to overheat the engine . |
| 5 | Moving slowly and cautiously so as not to rip any of the rubber components of their diving suits , they passed in file into a compartment not more than four feet in height but almost twenty feet in length , extending from the nose cone , under the flight deck and then several feet beyond . |
| 6 | I could see from the onlooking faces that he was coming for me and at what speed , and when I felt the air behind me move and heard the brush of his clothes I went down fast on one knee and whirled and punched upwards hard into the bottom of his advancing rib cage and then shifted my weight into his body and upwards so as to lift him wholesale off the floor , and before he 'd got that sorted out I had one of his wrists in my hand and he ended up on his feet with me behind him , his arm in a nice painful lock and my mouth by his ear . |