Example sentences of "much they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 've had a good living out of it but if that same system has brought them on their feet , you know and built them nice homes er right they 've delved into Company 's House now , all the dirty water not dirty water all the whatsit has come up how much they 've drawn from these quarries . |
| 2 | It 's not how many stocks and shares they 've got , it 's not what the size of their balance is , how much they 've got on deposit account , how much credit , how credit worthy they are , that is not the richness of a man or a woman . |
| 3 | I do n't know what , how much they 've kept of the er place at the back . |
| 4 | They would perhaps like to buy it , but they ca n't sell their property and also if they can sell theirs and they look at the cost of the property and they work out how much they 've got to pay for the mortgage then they find they ca n't afford it . |
| 5 | Well I do n't really know how much they get . |
| 6 | Lentils coming from Ethiopia , you get wheat from the States , rice from the States , ap apples from France , tea from India , coffee from Brazil and Columbia , sugar from the Windward Islands , bananas from all over the place , you know those are the things that keep us alive , no , you know , whether we one think they are or not , but I mean them things are what keeps the economy alive for one , it 's also what keeps us personally alive if you do n't know why we take an interest in Third World issues , I would say that it 's that , we 're dependent on these countries , we could produce enough foods for our own needs , but we would n't have oranges , coffee , tea , sugar , you know cos we ca n't grow them in this country we , we really depend on those things to stay alive , and for that reason alone we should have some kind of interest , if you went to Kenya for example they would be staggered at how little you know about their country given how much they know about yours they know a lot about this country , a lot of it is a bit loopy , but then what you know about their country is probably a bit off centre as well , and you know I hope that this is something that we 're reversing in this section , our perceptions of the Third World or the south or whatever we choose to call it , colour a lot of the things that we think and do and say and it increases the amount of racism that there is around us all , all those kind of things , erm and I think that it is really important to look at what a perception is , you know , for example what 's your perception of this ? |
| 7 | There are then the tinkers , who normally come from Ireland and who are engaged in business on a large scale , whether its tarmacking , or metal business , or dealing in furniture and antiques , and the third group who are the drop outs of society who have decided to move around all the time and they do n't care where they move from one place to another however much they inconvenience anybody else . |
| 8 | I think some of them do , yes , I know s er some of them have said how much they enjoyed it when it started off first , but er but now it 's just got that wee bit more serious . |
| 9 | a number of people said to me how much they enjoyed yesterday 's service . |
| 10 | Yeah , but d er , do they tell you how much they take out ? |
| 11 | David and were agreeing last night how much they like the road . |
| 12 | They used to cost about two hundred pounds in those days and that was a heck of a sum in those days you know that sort of thing , how much they cost and had to be careful of them and all that . |
| 13 | So now you can relate positions one to three to how much they cost and so on on the way down . |
| 14 | But I have had a letter erm explaining where the billboards are in our area and how much they cost . |
| 15 | Guess how much they cost ? |
| 16 | Do you know how much they cost ? |
| 17 | One company still calls their whole of life protection plan Mastercover , , that 's an idea of how much they copied it Erm , but of course , very quickly things moved on . |
| 18 | How much they charge ? |
| 19 | Did he tell you how much they charge ? |
| 20 | I wonder how much they charge me for that |
| 21 | I 've got no specific figures or names in mind , but I think there will be a further growth , particularly in the number of people who supply existing credit cards , and that 's important because they may do better and different deals with the retailers over how much they charge for the processing . |
| 22 | I wonder how much they want for it ? |
| 23 | Obviously there is a very delicate balance between erm demanding too much of people 's time in consulting and talking with you , and not involving them at all , and you have to be very sensitive to how much time people are prepared to give and how much they want to be involved in something . |
| 24 | you can also erm maybe try and correlate things like , oh I do n't know , how frequently they came , claim to dream with how much they rate their enjoyment of dreams on average or , you know , all these kinds of things are possible |
| 25 | Once they got married they never told their husbands how much they earned ever ! |
| 26 | Horsham were unable to find a way past the Town defence however much they tried and really looked out of their depth against a slick professional erm Town side . |
| 27 | ‘ It will appeal to all those people in any discipline who are knowledgeable enough to know that there is much they do not know , and that learning and re-learning is worthwhile . |
| 28 | Trouble is if they get so much they do n't use it . |
| 29 | Some of them very negative , and how much they hated doing what they 'd been made to do er , and others very surprisingly made it known that they had thoroughly enjoyed it . |
| 30 | Okay you start off by finding out from the person how much they think they need . |