Example sentences of "as [vb past] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Harry Collyer joined Crystal Palace FC ours was a club that had not yet so much as played a 1st Division match in the Southern League . |
| 2 | One of his clients was Mike McGear , Paul McCartney 's brother and together they got up to some hair-raising pranks like trying to give a client a beer shampoo but drinking more of the vital ingredients before it so much as touched a single hair ! |
| 3 | As befitted a man who had sung the pleasures of the ordinary , it occurred on a bus going up Headington Hill , on his way back to Mrs Moore 's house . |
| 4 | As befitted a resurrection , Surkov looked shattered . |
| 5 | In Tsarist Russia , two different traditions stood side by side , as befitted a country straddling two continents . |
| 6 | It should have been cold and raining as befitted a funeral . |
| 7 | As befitted a man who had been an assistant professional in his youth he had great sympathy for those afflicted by golf mania . |
| 8 | Topaz had pictured her as tall and brawny as befitted a martinet . |
| 9 | McAllister , happily unaware of who made up the party , watched these inhabitants of the world in which she had lived since she was eight years old stare and chatter as they made their way through the doorway , Mr Sands bowing and scraping at them as befitted a poor relation to whom they were doing a favour , the rest of the bazaar 's patrons staring at these strange beings , male and female , as though they were visitors from another planet , perhaps one described by Mr H. G. Wells . |
| 10 | Haroun had been given a small separate room at the end of the hut , as befitted a VIP . |
| 11 | They may be as bit a leap forward as the original K-SB3 . |
| 12 | There will be no jam on your bread today if you so much as lay a finger — ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Do n't you dare so much as lay a finger on me . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ If you so much as lay a single finger on me again , Adam Burns , you 'll hit the deck so fast you wo n't know what 's happened to you ! ’ she swore softly , her tawny eyes gleaming as she gazed unseeing across the room . |
| 15 | Mrs Cynthia Jarrett died during a police search of her home in October 1985 , as did a five-year-old boy , John Shorthouse , when a police gun went off accidentally during a search of his home . |
| 16 | Students from Tibet studying in the capital held a brief demonstration against the Han Chinese treatment of their nation and people , as did a group of Uighurs from Xinjiang province . |
| 17 | Investigations carried out by ILEA in the 1960s tended to bear out this anxiety ( Little , 1975 ) , as did a variety of other surveys ( for a useful review see Tomlinson , 1983 , pp. 27–59 ) . |
| 18 | Her baby and the parish , like water flooding slowly across low-lying land , began to claim her , as did a new and unwelcome preoccupation with money . |
| 19 | This is because MouseMan Cordless has its roller ball sited further forward , virtually under one 's forefinger and it took a bit of time getting used to , as did a small but perceptible response lag . |
| 20 | Does he further agree that it is sheer hypocrisy to oppose privatisation in principle and to promise more nationalisation , yet to claim that there will still be privatisation proceeds to spend , as did a Labour Front-Bench Treasury spokesperson this morning ? |
| 21 | Some 30 Conservatives abstained , as did a significant number of Labour backbenchers . |
| 22 | Its accelerated transfer of four Iroquois helicopters to the PNG Defence Force in mid-1989 represented a major contribution to the government 's campaign against the BRA , as did a subsequent major shipment of small arms and ammunition . |
| 23 | They were not numerous : only a minority of lay office-holders refused the oaths of allegiance to William and Mary ( although they included ten peers and sixty-one present or former MPs ) , as did a little under 400 clergymen ( 3.5 per cent of a total clerical estate of at least 12,000 ) . |
| 24 | We left , as did a few others . |
| 25 | All the candidates of these parties lost their deposits , as did a few scattered independents and other candidates standing under rather esoteric banners . |
| 26 | She used to ask my mother too , endlessly attempting to work upon her soft-heartedness , whenever she so much as had a headache . |
| 27 | A group describing itself as the " Iraqi national opposition " called on Feb. 19 for the overthrow of Saddam Hussein , as had a communiqué issued on Jan. 28 by the Islamic opposition in Iraq . |