Example sentences of "[vb past] [not/n't] so [det] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He gave in that connection some instances from The Rock , which he described not so much as a play as a revue , a word he pronounced in the French manner . |
| 2 | His resignation arose not so much because an audience was to be debarred from geology , as because women were to be debarred from the audience . |
| 3 | In this context , regulations were , in the main , perceived not so much as serving the public interest but as representing ‘ capture ’ of the economic system by specific groups serving their own self-interest , reducing economic welfare and inhibiting economic development . |
| 4 | The affair started not so much as a head-first plunge as a mesmerised topple . |
| 5 | They did not so much as consider that their physical safety could be at risk . |
| 6 | Aunt Sarah did not so much as lift her head from the rug she was making , but Ruth watched the way the rug hook stabbed the canvas with increased speed and vigour , as if she wanted to hurt it , and Ruth knew that her aunt was as tense as she was herself . |
| 7 | I did not so much as flick a duster around the papers . |
| 8 | As she bustled about the mess , he did n't so much as look at her , which meant she would have to comer him to talk to him . |
| 9 | Having seen taxis north of Adrar , and then a couple of days ago , a convoy which had not so much as a compass , I had begun to think the desert not so terrible after all . |
| 10 | Many now happily experienced that Christian fellowship of which they had not so much as an idea before . |
| 11 | Whereas Gaston had managed to buy a small boat to go fishing , Marius had not so much as managed the purchase of two matching garden chairs . |
| 12 | Leith saw Travis give her a warning look , but , since Rosemary 's name had not so much as been mentioned , much less the name of the place she came from , she saw no harm in revealing , ‘ My parents live in Dorset . ’ |
| 13 | Isambard had not so much as looked round . |
| 14 | He had n't so much as asked . |
| 15 | see Exod. 14 : 28 , ‘ And the waters returned , and covered the chariots , and the horsemen , even all the host of Pharaoh that went in after them into the sea ; there remained not so much as one of them ’ . |