Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] so [adj] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I smell so much as a drop of ale on their breaths , they will answer to the King 's Provost Marshal ! ’ |
| 2 | And if I hear so much as a whisper that you have been broadcasting our private affairs around the country … ’ |
| 3 | I get so disappointed when I see work that is not personal to the people involved . |
| 4 | Both my parents were addicts , so I get so angry when I see the way that drug users are portrayed . |
| 5 | cos my daughter you see , I get so cross if anyone 's at my car , I 'm likely to go for them . |
| 6 | How come I feel so well when the cancer is so widespread ? |
| 7 | I felt so ashamed because I did n't recognise her and she was sort of talking away to me as though , you know , and I thought oh very friendly person , you know ? |
| 8 | I felt so enthusiastic when I found this out and I began to read the stories , that I thought I saw the River of the Leprechauns , which is the crystal road to their kingdom ‘ Undersea . ’ |
| 9 | He liked me to air my opinions in front of our friends , most of whom felt as he did : he said I looked so pretty when I got excited . |
| 10 | How do you remain so calm when there 're all these things ? |
| 11 | Listening carefully for any sound that might indicate fitzAlan 's presence , she stretched out a cautious foot , ready to withdraw it immediately if she encountered so much as a hint of him . |
| 12 | She suffered so much when he did casuals that he 'd lied about it for a long time . |
| 13 | ‘ She 's gone to Sam 's party , ’ said Scarlet , hastily , applying the brush to her hair and wondering why it made you feel so odd if you looked at yourself for a long while in the glass . |
| 14 | ‘ Do n't you dare so much as lay a finger on me . ’ |
| 15 | 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 ? |
| 16 | " How is it you know so much when you only took the shop over last week ? " |
| 17 | But she screams so much when she gets her hair cut and she wo n't have |
| 18 | ‘ You heard so much as I did , Miss Buckley . |
| 19 | In a conversation which she later recalled to friends Diana told him : ‘ You looked so sad when you walked up the aisle at the funeral . |
| 20 | And very upset that she looked so awful because we always thought she looked so lovely . |
| 21 | Rory suspected she looked so good because she did n't live here any more ; she lived in London , and Aunt Ilsa had got her a job working for a television company . |
| 22 | Why d' you get so mad if anyone asks you — ’ |
| 23 | ‘ When you get really hungry you 'll be sorry you gave so much as a mouthful away . ’ |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Er one last thing er , do we need so many as eight non-executive directors which also to be paid ? |
| 26 | " 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 " . |
| 27 | ‘ Over the years we lost so many because there was so much we did n't know . |
| 28 | All this he did to boys without any compulsion or correction ; nay I never heard him utter so much as a word of austerity among us . ’ |
| 29 | Of course clubs such as Neath and Pontypool are not really supposed to be at the head of the Welsh pecking-order , which goes some way to explaining why they become so unpopular when they do . |
| 30 | A few birds with long beaks were poking around by the water : how come they stay so clean when they 're always delving in the mud ? |