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 ? |