Example sentences of "much [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps you did not realise how much I knew , of that or of anything . |
| 2 | As we walked back to the dispensary he asked me , almost casually , yet in a way trying to find out how much I knew , ‘ Tell me , what 's the extent of your knowledge of polio ? ’ |
| 3 | The house I was after was on the south side , that much I knew , but it seemed a pretty standard sort of street with terraced houses down both sides , distinguished only by the colours of the front doors where the residents had actually bothered to renew the paintwork . |
| 4 | John is the only person I talk to about how ugly and disgusting I feel , how fat I think I am , how much I hate myself for being out of control . |
| 5 | ‘ If you really want to know , I was thinking how much I hate crowds , despite the fact that my job involves a lot of travelling . ’ |
| 6 | You ca n't know how much I hate myself for not believing you . |
| 7 | I 'm saying how much I hate you , just all the time . |
| 8 | I had n't realized just how much I 'd got out of the swing of things but everyone helped as much as they could and I soon adjusted back again . |
| 9 | And he 'd always ask how much I 'd eaten that day . ’ |
| 10 | I thanked him for dinner and said how much I 'd enjoyed myself . |
| 11 | ‘ I did n't realise how much I 'd missed it , ’ she said . |
| 12 | He would then enquire how much I 'd paid for the latest irreparable objects , and if it had been 20p or less he 'd say , with satisfaction , ‘ Well , at least it had a decent plug ’ , and the decent plug would go into the decent plug box . |
| 13 | Before I 'm tempted too much I 'd better , settle down a bit and describe how to get started in gold prospecting , what equipment you will need , and where to go . |
| 14 | The way I figured it ; the little guy knew how much I 'd missed him . |
| 15 | ‘ To tell you the truth , I had n't realised quite how much I 'd got in the habit of the kind of organised chaos we worked under at St Margaret 's . |
| 16 | Did you know how much I 'd lost ? |
| 17 | What hurt him was how much I looked like him . |
| 18 | the odds will be such that it 's not worth doing for a , a place , but if you 're betting , I mean forget how much I got last year , but I think it came in about thirty to one or something . |
| 19 | I ca n't believe how much I got done ! |
| 20 | Yeah but I du n no how much I got in there cos I only just put so much in there so I 'll check it on Monday . |
| 21 | I can only say how much I cherished the " Well done , lad " , from him after I 'd taken a difficult catch in the deep off his bowling . |
| 22 | After making a good meal I asked how much I owed . |
| 23 | I was aware how much I owed to their unobtrusive help ; several of them were my friends . |
| 24 | This fascinated me so much I failed to notice the Mamba slip out of the gate beneath me . |
| 25 | Oh " my Lord , I toil too much I go out at break of day , driving oxen to the field , and I yoke them to the plough , there is no winter so sharp that I dare keep at home , for fear of my Master , but having yoked my oxen and fastened my share and coulter I am bound to plough every day a full acre . |
| 26 | How much I welcome NEC , Motorola and the other companies , which make large numbers of mobile phones in this country in response to the strength of the cellular mobile phone market . |
| 27 | How much I welcome that . |
| 28 | It would be churlish of me not to say how much I welcome that statement , and how much I rejoice in the fact that to add to the four climbdowns that I announced at 4 o'clock , there is a fifth — the abandonment of the proposal announced by the Home Secretary in column 167 of Hansard on 2 July . |
| 29 | There 's a power cut ; the lights go out and we light candles and gas lamps and end up — a hard core of seven of us ; Andy , me , Howie , another two local lads and a couple of the traveller boys — down in the snooker room where there 's a beat-up looking table and a leak in the ceiling that turns the whole of the stained , green-baize surface into a millimetre-shallow marsh , water dripping from each pocket and dribbling down the bulky legs to the sopping carpet , and we play snooker by the light of the hissing gas lamps , having to hit the white ball really hard even for delicate shots because of the extra rolling resistance the water causes , and the balls make a zizzing , ripping noise as they race across the table and sometimes you can see spray curving up behind them and I 'm feeling really drunk and a bit stoned from a couple of strong Js smoked out in the garden earlier with the travellers but I think this dimly lit water-hazard snooker is just hilarious and I 'm laughing maniacally at it all and I put an arm round Andy 's neck at one point and say , You know I love you , old buddy , and is n't friendship and love what 's it 's really all about ? and why ca n't people just see that and just be nice to each other ? except there are just so many complete bastards in the world , but Andy just shakes his head and I try to kiss him and he gently fends me off and steadies me against one wall and props me up with a snooker cue against my chest and I think this is really funny for some reason and laugh so much I fall over and have distinct problems getting up again and get carried to my room by Andy and one of the travellers and dumped on the bed and fall instantly asleep . |
| 30 | Nobody could ever understand how much I put into yesterday . |