Example sentences of "[pers pn] so [adj] as [vb past] " in BNC.

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1 He said he knew what you were up to and I would lock the door against you if I so much as guessed the half of it .
2 ‘ The only reason I so much as spoke to you last night , ’ he said through his teeth , ‘ was because of my grandmother . ’
3 However , before I so much as opened my mouth , the right hon. Member for Birmingham , Sparkbrook ( Mr. Hattersley ) had attacked me .
4 She had the feeling he would swallow her whole if she so much as rippled the surface .
5 She used to ask my mother too , endlessly attempting to work upon her soft-heartedness , whenever she so much as had a headache .
6 " Adrian , " she said in a level voice that surprised her , " if you so much as lay one finger on me , I swear I 'll tear you to pieces .
7 There will be no jam on your bread today if you so much as lay a finger — ’
8 ‘ If you so much as lay a single finger on me again , Adam Burns , you 'll hit the deck so fast you wo n't know what 's happened to you ! ’ she swore softly , her tawny eyes gleaming as she gazed unseeing across the room .
9 And the soldiers muttered to one another as they limped and splashed back towards England that the black friars had not only sent the terror , but withdrawn it from them as soon as they turned back , and the devil their master could call it up again in an instant if they so much as looked over their shoulders .
10 One of his clients was Mike McGear , Paul McCartney 's brother and together they got up to some hair-raising pranks like trying to give a client a beer shampoo but drinking more of the vital ingredients before it so much as touched a single hair !
11 Not so tall and powerfully built that she felt as though she might break if he so much as touched her .
12 The snubs and indignities that he received from that quarter have passed into Gaullist lore : when he so much as enquired about the progress of the assembly 's constitutional commission , one of his own former ministers told him it was none of his business .
13 She read her answer before he so much as opened his mouth .
14 But he had little reason yet to ask for a search warrant and Mr Simpson would go purple in the face and throw every legal book in his considerable library at him if he so much as tried .
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