1. He lent me a hand so that he would not look such a mean person in my eyes. So as 2. We were not surprised by his success. It came 3. Alice and Charles did not decide to move to a bigger house unti...

1. So as to avoid looking like a mean person in my eyes, he lent me a hand. 2. It came as no surprise to us that he was successful. 3. Only when Alice and Charles had the second child did they decide to move to a bigger house. 4. But for his command of the local dialect, we would have been put into prison.