Example sentences of "[vb past] not much [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maternal influence did not much interest contemporaries usually , unless some obvious connection could be established , or possibly where the connections on the distaff side were more impressive and influential . |
| 2 | He himself did not much value the small detached territories — Cleves , Mark , Ravensberg — which he ruled in the Rhineland . |
| 3 | As they were descending , Reynolds said , ‘ I get the impression that you did n't much rate Jenner . ’ |
| 4 | She did n't much rate her chances of getting hold of the key to Charlie 's desk , but the desk itself was so old and the drawer appeared to be so ill-fitting that a touch of leverage might just spring it open . |
| 5 | The sights and smells of death did n't much distress him . |
| 6 | and he certainly had not much patience and we had never seen this afore . |
| 7 | Since he made swiftly towards the forest , I had not much option but to follow . |
| 8 | He learned about world events rather as a Trobriand Islander might — from chance remarks and accidental contacts — and , from the little he had heard , he had not much desire to know more . |
| 9 | They had not much time . |
| 10 | Yeltsin had given a dramatic description of tanks closing in and said that he believed that he had not much time left . |
| 11 | Companies responsible for its prospects have gone out of business seven times , discovering that while they could make money on the big promotions , the building and park were too expensive to run on a tickover basis ( nowadays the park alone costs £650,000 a year to maintain ) , and in an earlier era of six-day working weeks , the public had not much leisure time to spend there anyway . |
| 12 | The only thing is , I did n't really want to be a tailoress , I wanted to be a nurse , but had n't much choice , then . |
| 13 | I agreed ; I had n't much choice . |
| 14 | Well I had n't much choice have I ? |
| 15 | He had n't much chance of catching Caspar , not at the rate the dog was going . |
| 16 | Maggie went across to him quickly , trying hard to think of something to take his mind off his sister 's minor crime , but she had n't much chance of that . |
| 17 | His dad had n't much luck dying in his fifties and the boy had looked in with the bread and milk most days since her accident . |
| 18 | His uncle had n't much money , he supposed , but there would be a little , enough to put central heating in , say , and have the place redecorated . |
| 19 | I hoped Doone would net him soon , but I had n't much faith . |
| 20 | The poor man had obviously given up hope and I could tell by his apathetic manner that he had n't much faith in this latest ploy . |
| 21 | Short of making an embarrassing scene , she had n't much option . |
| 22 | He had n't much time . |
| 23 | all things in mind that are possible on er , on er , on er computer , and he said that he had n't much time to think about it and said well look , maybe over Easter |
| 24 | Then I noticed that Helen had n't much room by my side , so I stepped to the left to where the grating should have been and slid gracefully down into the cellar . |
| 25 | She had n't much stomach for torn flesh or pecked eyes streaming blood . |
| 26 | Rufus , who had n't much appreciation of nature usually , nevertheless found himself gazing in something like wonderment at all the roses , yellow and pink and apricot and dark red , a hedge of white ones , a cascade of peach-red that covered a pergola . |