Example sentences of "[vb past] n't so " in BNC.

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1 We did n't so much run as squelch , slosh and slither up to the marching camp with the electric storm raging about us .
2 And when he finally produced a son in series two , you did n't so much ask ‘ when ? ’ as ‘ how ? ’
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 I did n't so much take cover in the underbrush , I collided with it .
8 She says she hoped things would improve but they did n't so she tried to start a new life .
9 ‘ Bosnia did n't so much change me , more my priorities .
10 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 .
11 He did n't so Bartholomew kept the purse . ’
12 Jonathan the other two did n't so much .
13 On top of the books so that it did n't so unless you 've moved it ?
14 and , I did n't so much I just thought that it happened to me
15 They did n't so .
16 She did n't like it when Dot slipped in unseen and with Mr Brown gone off to college , she had n't so many people who would listen to her .
17 He had n't so much as asked .
18 Of course , it had n't so far done anything of the kind , and he had to arrive at the best thing to do in the circumstances .
19 It certainly had n't so far as he , Naseby , was concerned .
20 When she 'd first moved in she had n't cared about anything , certainly not her surroundings — they had been the least of her problems — and if the villagers had n't so kindly donated her furnishings she 'd probably still be existing in empty rooms .
21 So I taught him that the first week , and the second week we went back and there was still only him , so it I taught him how to rewire a plug how to do it properly and er went back a third week and he was s still the only one there , so we went through it again , see if he 'd picked it up and he had n't so .
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