Example sentences of "that [pron] [vb past] [verb] [adv] much " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did my best , but I suppose it was during that time that I began to drink too much and that finished off my promotion chances . |
| 2 | It was also agreed that the gallery had been overheated and airless and that I had drunk too much . |
| 3 | There was a little shop in my home town that I had liked very much , selling old bits and pieces , books and engravings ; all that was for sale was in a jumble , and the windows had not been cleaned in years . |
| 4 | I hated speaking to large groups of people and normally would have avoided it at all costs , but I found that I had thought so much about this that telling other people was a relief . |
| 5 | She was beginning to be afraid , in fact , that she had drunk too much . |
| 6 | So insecure about her sexuality that she 'd eaten too much and got fat . |
| 7 | The encouraging rapprochement between Tehran and London that we 'd heard so much about the previous year was at an end . |
| 8 | He had seen it hundreds of times on the faces of people who fancied that they had said too much to him , opened their hearts too wide . |
| 9 | The Liberal Democrats complained that too many schools have outside lavatories ; that the Tories were profligate in setting up a chair of maritime history at a local university ; and that they had spent too much on a ceremonial mace . |
| 10 | Maybe , Liz reflects ( for this is what she contemplates , through the oval mirror ) , maybe this is why they decided to have such a party , this year , at the end of this decade : as a sign that they had weathered so much , and were now entering a new phase ? |
| 11 | ‘ It was flattering that they wanted to spend so much on me , ’ says Tara . |
| 12 | After her husband 's death Valerie Eliot declared , " He felt he had paid too high a price to be a poet , that he had suffered too much " . |
| 13 | ‘ In Gloucestershire at their kennels and smallholding ? ’ he questioned , causing her to warm to him that he had remembered so much . |
| 14 | Crusoe 's fabled isle contained all he needed to sustain life — given , that is , that he had rescued so much of use from the wreck , not forgetting a Bible ; and Defoe 's most compelling point was that the island is a self-sufficient place to anyone who can bring courage to the task of living in it , along with an inherited faith and a few tools . |
| 15 | It is hard to think that Anselm did not feel some indignation on reading these words , which implied that he had read too much into Urban II's decree , and that Paschal had not himself been present when those words were spoken . |
| 16 | ( None of his books indicated that he had spent so much of his life in America . ) |
| 17 | Perhaps the conservatism of his views in 1857 derived from the fact that he had spent too much time studying the narrow-minded documents bequeathed by Nicholas I. In 1858 he was certainly impressed by The Bell , by reports of the disturbances in Estonia , and by his correspondence with Evgenii Obolenskii ( one of the three Decembrists of Kaluga ) . |
| 18 | When at last he could return to the plans he had left incomplete in 1102 , he seems to have recognized that he had attempted too much . |
| 19 | Nick and I went to see Canon Oates and we knew after only a few minutes in his company that he wanted to help very much . |
| 20 | But it was clear that he wanted to make as much money out of me as he could . |
| 21 | It was proof that what had meant so much to her meant little or nothing to him . |