Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [adv] [adj] as [art] " in BNC.
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1 | Their pay varied , but very few girls in these occupations ever earned as much as the 12s-13s a week , which as we have seen is what a girl compositor could be earning by the time she was about 20 , with the ( limited but real ) possibility of earning more later . |
2 | But in the last TWO years , he 's hardly had so much as a bite here . |
3 | The hall had always seemed as unfriendly as an abandoned church — it belonged to the days of Lizzie 's strict attention and Twomey 's quiet , dignified footsteps . |
4 | And Chaucer 's portrait of the miller has probably done as much as the hated medieval monopoly to give the miller a black mark . |
5 | As far as I know he has never received as much as a warning as an amateur or professional . ’ |
6 | ‘ Well , I 've spent a year doing what the Thing 's told me and I 've never had so much as a ‘ thank you ’ , ’ said Masklin . |