Example sentences of "[verb] n't so " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It has n't so far happened . |
| 2 | Well the problem is he has to say he has a licence for you , he has n't so , it 's possible that Terry will be . |
| 3 | It 's only appeared in Harlow and she told me it would get in the Bishop 's Stortford one but it has n't so far . |
| 4 | ‘ He has n't so far , ’ Claudia said , putting down her pencil . |
| 5 | Marshall has n't so much tampered with Aotearoa education as launched a phalanx of studies and reviews which are now landing with thuds . |
| 6 | " Jenny likes expressing herself on paper but she has n't so far , mentioned the date of her return . " |
| 7 | It has n't so far . |
| 8 | But I thin , this one has n't so |
| 9 | Oh I see they do n't so i No I suppose they 're bought |
| 10 | We did n't so much run as squelch , slosh and slither up to the marching camp with the electric storm raging about us . |
| 11 | And when he finally produced a son in series two , you did n't so much ask ‘ when ? ’ as ‘ how ? ’ |
| 12 | Can we go through erm what we 're going to do this week so I can make a note of it so I 'll know this week , rather than last week when I did n't so I did n't . |
| 13 | As she bustled about the mess , he did n't so much as look at her , which meant she would have to comer him to talk to him . |
| 14 | But she did n't move and she said nothing , and the Maître d'Hôtel did n't so much turn his attention to her as give her the briefest of glances . |
| 15 | They were eight-sided crystals set at regular intervals in the walls and ceiling , and they shed a rather unpleasant glow that did n't so much illuminate as outline the darkness . |
| 16 | I did n't so much take cover in the underbrush , I collided with it . |
| 17 | She says she hoped things would improve but they did n't so she tried to start a new life . |
| 18 | ‘ Bosnia did n't so much change me , more my priorities . |
| 19 | Er but what I become , I thought you might become more confrontational but you did n't so so you dug a hole for yourself that you could 've dug out of you sat in there but I think you handled that quite well , but there are people like me out there who think they know it all and will have a go at you . |
| 20 | He did n't so Bartholomew kept the purse . ’ |
| 21 | Jonathan the other two did n't so much . |
| 22 | On top of the books so that it did n't so unless you 've moved it ? |
| 23 | and , I did n't so much I just thought that it happened to me |
| 24 | They did n't so . |
| 25 | This is music that does n't fart , belch or sweat , a handful of songs which do n't so much live as exist , patiently . |
| 26 | Yet , over the space of two days while waiting for Ryder to appear , guitarist Mark Day shows me his holiday snaps of Barbados , drummer Gaz Whelan is more preoccupied with the hassles of having a broken foot , while PD and Paul Ryder do n't so much brag as baulk at the very mention of drugs , seeming far more at home with talk of ‘ middle-eights ’ , ‘ mixing desks ’ and ‘ jamming grooves ’ . |
| 27 | Satanic and necrophiliac obsessions , the meat and potatoes of death-metal , do n't so much take a back seat as miss the bus altogether thankfully . |
| 28 | ‘ Anna , ’ Isobel said pleadingly , ‘ Anna , do n't so set your face against things — ’ |
| 29 | Do n't so we use a little star on the atom , and it may not always be carbon , cos we do n't get this sort of isomerism , indeed , like compounds as well . |
| 30 | He had n't had to suffer as much as her — I do n't so much mean that , like fishes , his pain threshold was higher than a human being 's ( although I do n't doubt that was the case ) as that he 'd been aware that his son was missing for a shorter period than his wife . |