Example sentences of "[verb] so [adj] as [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It did n't hurt so much as it did with my Dad passing away . |
| 2 | Food never tastes so good as it does after a long day 's hike . |
| 3 | You can see so little as you blunder on that you are an easy target for any animal seeking fresh meat . |
| 4 | ‘ That do n't change anything , ’ said Bonanza , but he did n't sound so convincing as he had a moment before . |
| 5 | ‘ You heard so much as I did , Miss Buckley . |
| 6 | Though interest rates have also been very high indeed , the support which North Sea oil has given sterling has perhaps tended to stop them rising so high as they might otherwise have done . |
| 7 | But it is not his temper makes him unlike any poet I have ever known so much as his , well , as his coarseness in general . |
| 8 | The station was practically empty of people and Emily felt so alone as she stepped on to the train . |
| 9 | He looked so frail as I watched Gavin help him out of the car , followed by the cat basket . |
| 10 | The complex , serpentine weaving of colours emphasised his impressive shoulders , and in faded old Levis and scuffed desert boots he looked so wonderful as he lounged on the sofa that she could have thrown herself in his arms there and then . |
| 11 | The fact that D'Oyly 's aristocratic informant said that the washermen should be paid for their service with money ( ridi ) may simply reflect the greater social distance which separated the aristocrats from the Hena , or it could be that , at that date , the distinction between commercial and non-commercial economic transactions had not yet become so clear-cut as it is today . |
| 12 | The tragedy of the whole affair becomes so pathetic as we realise that Coleen does love him and only a delay of post cost him his life . |