Example sentences of "much as [vb past] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Harry Collyer joined Crystal Palace FC ours was a club that had not yet so much as played a 1st Division match in the Southern League . |
| 2 | 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 ! |
| 3 | She had the feeling he would swallow her whole if she so much as rippled the surface . |
| 4 | She used to ask my mother too , endlessly attempting to work upon her soft-heartedness , whenever she so much as had a headache . |
| 5 | He was well placed in the cotton industry and it gave him a generous income ; therefore it had to take precedence , but the monotony of arriving at the same place at the same time every day now bored him as much as had the mechanical frenzy of the bobbins when he arrived . |
| 6 | In commemoration of the end of apprenticeship in 1838 John Relly Beard looked on behalf of religious liberals as much as had the evangelical Wardlaw to the ‘ genius of Christianity ’ producing future success in the US and the wider world . |
| 7 | There will be no jam on your bread today if you so much as lay a finger — ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Do n't you dare so much as lay a finger on me . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | Although Richardson regarded himself as writing with a new realism , his novels gravitate towards the houses of the great as much as did the wealthier middle-class houses of his time . |
| 11 | 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 . |