Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] i [adv] [det] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it makes you feel any happier , I will tell you that it did not cost me as much as a bouquet of flowers would have done . |
| 2 | Leaving behind hi-tech hospitals and computerized records did not bother me so much as leaving behind certain hard-won changes in birth procedures . |
| 3 | But his questions were at once crucifying me as much as I knew they were of help . |
| 4 | Things like that do n't really bug me that much but I 'd do it again and again until it was perfect . |
| 5 | The actual experience was n't frightening me so much as what I 'd been told . |
| 6 | He did n't give me so much as a glance . |
| 7 | A lot of poetry seems to me very good in the tradition , but it does n't move me very much because it does n't have personal vibrance to it . |
| 8 | " I think … if my father discovered about us — I think he would n't punish me so much as my mother . |
| 9 | You could argue it was n't his fault that Clare was killed — or that she did n't love me as much as I loved her — and I 'd have to agree . |
| 10 | School and university still had n't changed me as much as they had ; maybe even the rest of my life could never compensate for their formative effect . |
| 11 | Morning Star devotes its front page to the collapse of capitalism in Tokyo , a development which does n't cheer me as much as it might once have done . |