Example sentences of "[det] as [verb] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " You could 've had Harry without any competition at all , if you 'd so much as bent your little finger . |
| 2 | It was as if I 'd only just found him , except that now I 'd start to wail like a baby if someone so much as knocked my little finger . |
| 3 | Not then — to recall my point of departure in the previous chapter — knowing thyself , so much as knowing thy discursive formations — knowing them in the process of living but also inverting them ; reinscribing oneself within , succumbing to , and demystifying them . |
| 4 | In this cake-and-eat-it arrangement , no one possessor could sell off the estate , yet in Johnson 's view , the landowner should have enough over and above the inheritance to bargain with , should he need to raise cash by sale or mortgage , but never so much as to disinherit his succeeding generations . |
| 5 | Any agent worth his salt knew that promotion under Postelnicu depended upon satisfying the minister 's whims as much as doing his proper job well . |
| 6 | ‘ But that 's not the same as running my own business ! ’ |
| 7 | Of course , the whole thrust of the historic avant-garde , and particularly its celebration here , lies in its being associated with a liberation from bourgeois ideology ; but this is not quite the same as having your revolutionary commitments tested by your aesthetic judgement . |