Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [adv] [adj] as [verb] " in BNC.

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1 I do n't anyway , would n't care if I never so much as sniffed it again .
2 But nobody ever so much as hinted at the possibility that she might return .
3 The fact was that almost nobody even as much as looked her way as she passed , but the tight knot of embarrassment stayed deep within her all the same .
4 ‘ Or are you still so naïve as to believe that he just wanted a comforting kiss and a cuddle ? ’
5 The TUC found them nearly as awkward as did the Government .
6 Even something as purely physical as exercising brings its own awareness .
7 Although they undoubtedly exist throughout the world , only Scotland could resort to something quite as sad as turning a pub into a museum of dispirited sport .
8 Though it probably did not benefit her economically as much as has sometimes been thought , it endowed Britain with a great colonial empire and virtually unlimited opportunities of further expansion .
9 The English-speaking world , which reveres him quite as much as does Iberia , knows him as Ferdinand Magellan .
10 There 's nothing quite so depressing as watching your tan fade along with the memories of that wonderful holiday .
11 There is nothing quite as bad as watching other people eat and drink what you are trying to avoid .
12 A restrained virility that boded ill for anyone so incredibly foolish as to even think of challenging his authority .
13 Obviously it 's got to be in some sort of order ; composition comes into it just as much as taking a photograph . ’
14 Obviously it 's got to be in some sort of order ; composition comes into it just as much as taking a photograph . ’
15 If he just so much as tried to make her budge …
16 I mean I found it almost as ridiculous as trying to sort of say , well half of my clerical staff are fairly incompetent so I think we should have a sort of incompetency rating for each of
17 Was it however so paradoxical as to have dealt a death blow to the theory ?
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