Example sentences of "[vb base] so [det] [subord] " in BNC.
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1 | There too her parents who love her so much and suffer so much when she leaves their family feel indebted to her parents-in-law . |
2 | Why did all the grown-ups giggle so much when Richard ( the younger of the two boys ) and I went to the fancy dress party as Adam and Eve ? |
3 | I was not angry or upset so much as concerned by the lads going so far in the wrong direction . |
4 | If I smell so much as a drop of ale on their breaths , they will answer to the King 's Provost Marshal ! ’ |
5 | Indeed the Baron himself has almost given up buying ( a recent exception was Constable 's ‘ The Lock ’ , which he acquired at Sotheby 's in 1991 for over £10 million ) , as works of sufficient importance appear so rarely on the market and cost so much when they do . |
6 | ‘ Utter so much as a word about last night 's work and you will be clapped in irons , ’ declared Tyrell . |
7 | I have been accused of favouring Transworld in the past , so I feel I must defend myself and say that it is not that I love Transworld so much as that I admire success . |
8 | " How is it you know so much when you only took the shop over last week ? " |
9 | " The unrest of which we hear so much as a new disease exists chiefly in the minds of the agitators " , chief among whom was Havelock Wilson himself but also his associates , especially Edward Tupper , " a fraudulent imposter who , while pretending to be an enemy of Capital , was in reality a bankrupt company promoter " . |
10 | And if I hear so much as a whisper that you have been broadcasting our private affairs around the country … ’ |
11 | The Kefauver report is mentioned in passing but neither the Hubert Humphrey follow-up , nor Morton Mintz 's massive By Prescription Only , nor Rick Carlson 's The End of Medicine get so much as a mention . |
12 | You would n't want to start watching one of those awful old adventure films you like so much if you knew exactly what was going to happen , would you ? |
13 | 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 . |
14 | Up until the last minute of press day , our lines are always open , the overworked , underpaid hordes of YTS types we use to compile the stories thrashed to within an inch of their lives with our old school ties if they miss so much as one happening event . |