Example sentences of "so [adj] [subord] [vb past] " 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 | He was invariably escorted by the SS Security Officer , and while the Nazi ogled her , the Dane never so much as looked her way . |
| 3 | 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one another as they limped and splashed back towards England that the black friars had not only sent the terror , but withdrawn it from them as soon as they turned back , and the devil their master could call it up again in an instant if they so much as looked over their shoulders . |
| 4 | Two burly bodyguards stood by Meh'Lindi , eyeing anyone who so much as glanced in her direction . |
| 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 | ‘ 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 | What is simultaneously acknowledged and denied is that ‘ wholesomeness ’ is not invaded from without so much as corrupted from within . |
| 11 | It was as if I 'd only just found him , except that now I 'd start to wail like a baby if someone so much as knocked my little finger . |
| 12 | 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 ! |
| 13 | I felt naked and horribly vulnerable , like a snail with its shell off ; every nerve was close to the surface ; I thought if anyone so much as touched me , I 'd scream . |
| 14 | Not so tall and powerfully built that she felt as though she might break if he so much as touched her . |
| 15 | I do n't anyway , would n't care if I never so much as sniffed it again . |
| 16 | She had the feeling he would swallow her whole if she so much as rippled the surface . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Never so much as mentioned it . |
| 19 | However , before I so much as opened my mouth , the right hon. Member for Birmingham , Sparkbrook ( Mr. Hattersley ) had attacked me . |
| 20 | She read her answer before he so much as opened his mouth . |
| 21 | ‘ The only reason I so much as spoke to you last night , ’ he said through his teeth , ‘ was because of my grandmother . ’ |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | If he just so much as tried to make her budge … |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Now the poor economies are known to be not so poor as had generally been supposed , more of them should be invited to join the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development ( whose membership is currently confined to the 24 ‘ industrial ’ countries ) or to attend the annual economic summit of the leaders of the G7 . |