Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] so much [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | Those sessions nearly wrecked my hearing for life , but they made me laugh so much and took up so much of my off-duty that , as time went by , sometimes , just sometimes , I was able to laugh at my one-time passion for Bill . |
2 | Nobody had so much as breathed the word ‘ Wages ’ . |
3 | ‘ Do n't you dare so much as lay a finger on me . ’ |
4 | It brought the spectators to their feet in an act of remembrance for Beryl who did so much and gave so much to the Society . |
5 | Well they want to find out why it is that someone who smoked so much and drank so much |
6 | No one had so much as noticed them there . |
7 | I do n't know why we drink so much and come up smelling of roses . |
8 | Er I think that 's wonderful , wonderful work they 've done , er they 're absolutely dedicated , they 've so much as spent all their time in the last four years working here . |
9 | Dysart Engineering was one of the success stories of West Midlands industry after the Depression and , as Gordon Dysart 's only son , young Alan was a dozen rungs above the likes of you and me on the ladder of life before he 'd so much as lost his milk teeth . |
10 | I suddenly realized why he smoked so much and felt queasy all over again . |
11 | Aside from the worthlessness of double negatives , aside from the fact that McGuinness was a far more accomplished safe-breaker than Meehan ( he had earned his nickname Tank because it was said he could penetrate even one of those ) , and aside from the fact that in all the verbiage spilled out by Meehan , Waddell and McGuinness to lawyers , journalists and others for over thirteen years , none of them had so much as hinted at the idea of a quartet , there was not a scrap of worthwhile evidence to support it : it was speculation with a vengeance and extraordinary to find in a report by a judge of his standing . |