Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [vb past] [adv] much " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both of these activities I enjoyed very much , but maths was a torture ! |
| 2 | So of course I said how much I 'd like to be able to play my guitar like a saxophone , and he said , ‘ Yeah — and vice versa . ’ |
| 3 | Days after finding the card which promised so much happiness for the future , Tim learned that his wife and her best friend Elizabeth Over had been beaten and knifed to death , their bodies mutilated . |
| 4 | Ultimately , a figure of £2,500 per episode was fixed by the planners , a result which had as much effect on the script side as it did on the production values . |
| 5 | the more I worked on it the more it began to evolve into another kind of idea and the more removed it became from my initial study which had so much freedom and energy , so I stopped . |
| 6 | She had been disappointed that he showed no love of the poetry and books which meant so much to her , only reading about industrial history and dry facts and figures . |
| 7 | To Agnes 's mind she laughed too much . |
| 8 | It was his home , his passport to the world of pain and violence he enjoyed so much . |
| 9 | The prestigious Antiquaires à Paris group of dealers who specialise in eighteenth-century French furniture albeit with many sidelines is back again this year for the first time since 1986 , although with nothing to compare with the extravagantly decorated and richly stocked collective stand which caused so much jealousy then . |
| 10 | As they had in losing to Bath on the day Wales lost to Bridgend , Neath conceded a first-half deficit which proved too much for them to turn over . |
| 11 | I WAS married four years ago to a girl I loved very much , but I lost her to another man , because I was so incompetent when it came to having sex . |
| 12 | The judge himself recognised as much . |
| 13 | One felt sorry for players like McKenzie and Ireland who put so much into the game and took nothing out . |
| 14 | Andy : ‘ In the same series where we got ‘ Teethgrinder ’ from , there was this American girl who snorted so much cocaine in the ‘ 70s that now , when she breathes in deeply , it sounds like a gust of wind blowing through a haunted house in her head . |
| 15 | In his rapid rise to stardom he still retained a measure of the paternalism of the good C.O. He knew how much apparently little things mattered to the fighting soldier . |
| 16 | It was the outside authorities who asked too much . |
| 17 | The date is right and amongst the books there was a copy of " Literary Tours " by D. T. Holmes who had so much to do with the establishment of these libraries . |
| 18 | A tombstone in the tiny graveyard of Caerlanrig in Teviotdale , down a tree-lined country lane which seems quite incongruously cosy in the shadow of windswept fells , commemorates the fate of an Armstrong who relied too much on the power of his name and his supporters . |
| 19 | It brought the spectators to their feet in an act of remembrance for Beryl who did so much and gave so much to the Society . |
| 20 | Hector McLean the eminent scholar in Anthropology and Celtic Literature who gave so much help to J , F. Campbell in the preparation of " Popular Tales of the West Highlands " must have had a good library and another schoolmaster at Ballygrant , Neil MacAlpine , can not have compiled his Gaelic Dictionary without one . |
| 21 | By now Artemis was quite helpless with laughter , and had to put her napkin to her face in case she made too much noise . |
| 22 | If anyone is to go it should be Whyte and Fairclough , the two defenders who contributed so much to Leeds downfall in 1992–3 . |
| 23 | Dorothy was a popular chairman who put in much hard work during her six years . |
| 24 | This fortunately the village was never to know , but later on in the war I found how much trouble units of this kind could cause . |
| 25 | As I caught his eye I realized how much I wanted to hold him in my arms again , and squeeze his rolls of fat . |
| 26 | He played one record I liked so much I decided to go out and buy it . |
| 27 | Quite obviously , the black population which attached so much importance to Johnson in the early years of the century was very different to the one which looked to Ali for leads in the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 28 | Well in fact it , it it has in fact gone full circle because through the nineteen fifties you went through to co-ops to collectives to communes which lasted through to nineteen seventy eight , the communes were then disbanded and you 're back , now , after reform which took very much system . |
| 29 | And he returned again to the article which symbolised so much , on which he had begun to pin all his hopes . |
| 30 | Such an argument would appear , however , to overestimate vastly the potential contribution of the ‘ Eastern hemisphere ’ in the postwar process of adjustment while ignoring the strength of European economic recovery which depended so much on intraregional trade in manufactured goods . |