Example sentences of "she so [adj] as " in BNC.

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1 Scarlet felt foolish and rather jealous : she knew that if she so much as failed to pay a parking ticket , the full force of the law would be upon her like a ton of bricks .
2 She used to ask my mother too , endlessly attempting to work upon her soft-heartedness , whenever she so much as had a headache .
3 She had the feeling he would swallow her whole if she so much as rippled the surface .
4 When Charlotte , ‘ a delicate and capable young person ’ , was caught travelling on the Underground without a ticket , it was not the 3s 6d fine that bothered her so much as the magistrate 's warning that , in consequence , her application for naturalisation might be rejected .
5 Other editors might make a slip , but let her so much as spell a name wrong and her telephone would blare , and some outraged lady would correct her with withering sarcasm .
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