Example sentences of "[adv] [det] [conj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | To disappear without so much as a phone call or a postcard for three years and then breeze back down the path from the town and across the bridge-rubber handlebars just clearing the sides and no more — carrying somebody else 's baby or babies and expecting to be housed , fed , nursed and delivered by my father was a little presumptuous . |
| 32 | For large areas there is not so much as a pebble bed to make one stumble in the climb up the column . |
| 33 | The Turkish forces , let's be clear about this , have used napalm against Kurdish villages inside the ‘ safe haven ’ which the rapidstrike force is supposedly on permanent red-alert to protect — yet there has n't been so much as a cheep from any of the elements who cheered the US-led forces into the Gulf War on the basis that regimes which defy international law and slaughter innocent people must be confronted , no matter what the cost . |
| 34 | Much better to get involved with someone who had plunged fully into the sea of life than with someone who had stood wimpishly on the edge , afraid to dip in so much as a toe . |
| 35 | Charles had done all he could to slow down the retreat , issuing orders that ‘ not so much as a cannonball ’ was to be left behind — an instruction literally , and profitably , followed by the Glengarry clan who , when the carts transporting ammunition up Shap Fell , between Kendal and Penrith , broke down , carried it up in their plaids , at sixpence [ 2. 5p ] per cannonball . |
| 36 | All next day she called and she hunted , but no trace of her baby could she discover , not so much as a footprint on the sand . |
| 37 | ‘ When you get really hungry you 'll be sorry you gave so much as a mouthful away . ’ |
| 38 | They 're lucky to get so much as a mouthful . |
| 39 | ‘ — and I was placed between Harry Burrows and Piers Langley and they told me all about hunting round here and really it was so interesting that I hardly noticed what we ate , some sort of fish and pheasant I think and , oh yes , there was an ice but by that stage , you know , I did n't have the smallest corner to put in so much as a mouthful — ’ |
| 40 | The fact is Koi have a pecking order — not based on aggression , so much as a will to be first up to the pellets . |
| 41 | They had n't been hurt , not so much as a graze on them , yet when the all-clear sounded , they came out of their buildings and stood on their street with blank eyes that seemed to stare inwards . |
| 42 | I have seldom , before or since , seen a man spend so much time with his car , be so obsessive about it , put so much work into it , understand it so well and be so unable to divert his attention from it for so much as a minute . |
| 43 | But if I dare to retaliate … if even so much as a minute flick of water lands on the Monster 's piggy-pink face … |
| 44 | Occasionally , in spite of the long time which has gone by without so much as a cuddle , you have a dreadful day and you just do not feel in the mood . |
| 45 | I began to see the city , not so much as a cityscape , but as a still life made up of street lights , buses , cars and shop windows . |
| 46 | I BEGAN TO SEE THE CITY , NOT SO MUCH AS A CITYSCAPE , BUT AS A STILL LIFE MADE UP OF STREET LIGHTS . |
| 47 | I began to see the city , not so much as a cityscape , but as a still life made up of street lights , buses , cars and shop windows . |
| 48 | I BEGAN TO SEE THE CITY , NOT SO MUCH AS A CITYSCAPE , BUT AS A STILL LIFE MADE UP OF STREET LIGHTS . |
| 49 | ‘ Me ma went and dropped me there then died without so much as a word . |
| 50 | ‘ Utter so much as a word about last night 's work and you will be clapped in irons , ’ declared Tyrell . |
| 51 | 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 . ’ |
| 52 | The attack on a dichotomy of form and content has been persistent in modern criticism ; to change so much as a word , the argument runs , is to change the meaning as well . |
| 53 | He 'd left her at the inn without so much as a word , and here he was , calmly indulging his hobby while she 'd had to trek after him . |
| 54 | Though , had she thought she might get out of his car and leave him without so much as a word being said between them , she found she was mistaken . |
| 55 | ‘ Not so much as a stick of rock . ’ |
| 56 | The wide formal boulevards of Algiers , the plane-trees with their trunks painted white , the tall graceful white-painted houses with their balconies and shutters , the shade of the square reserved for Europeans : all these reminded him of the France he had loved so much as a child ; the towns of the South — Arles or Nîmes or Avignon , some of the small towns of the Loire . |
| 57 | So much as a pen-stroke . |
| 58 | Not only did he tell me all the train times I needed to know ( without so much as a sigh ) , he also found out how I might get from Elstree station to the BBC studios . |
| 59 | If television washes over innocence without leaving so much as a water mark , why bother ‘ exercising control ’ ? |
| 60 | But in the last TWO years , he 's hardly had so much as a bite here . |