Example sentences of "[noun pl] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | It was the outside authorities who asked too much . |
| 4 | If anyone is to go it should be Whyte and Fairclough , the two defenders who contributed so much to Leeds downfall in 1992–3 . |
| 5 | Apart form some early experiments , which can be extremely sparse , his compositions largely avoid the reductionism fundamental to the serialists who attracted so much attention in the Sixties . |
| 6 | For the next 2½ years we spent as much time as we could at the melin . |
| 7 | The aristocracies which ruled so much of Europe could still see themselves even in 1914 as in some sense parts of a social order which transcended national boundaries . |
| 8 | As we watched the train 's shadows turn and fold on the snowy shore , it became clear that she had not forgotten the stories which made this much more than a stark inland sea stretching as far as the eye can follow . |
| 9 | Frankly the lack of a serious commitment to exploring the catastrophic drop in commodity prices which fuelled so much of the ‘ junk money ’ boom is a weakness . |
| 10 | Outside of government the success of public credit depended upon the interest , skills and self-interested cooperation of the financiers of the City , especially on those of the three great corporations who controlled so much of the national debt stock : the Bank of England , the East India Company and the South Sea Company . |
| 11 | There were girls who persistently stayed out late , girls who kept bad company and girls who drank too much . |
| 12 | She had come to pick up her mother 's possessions : the cracked Harrods dinner service , souvenirs of trips to Brighton and Bournemouth , the frayed and tired linen , the cooking pots , the scarlet tea cosy her mother had knitted , the family photograph albums she valued so much . |
| 13 | Interested , I asked him to whack my bottom with the same instrument and urged him to do it properly so that I could feel what it was like — he did so and I was only just able to restrain my tears it hurt so much . |
| 14 | When he got back to Istanbul and changed one of the notes he realised how much he had been given . |
| 15 | When he got back to Istanbul and changed one of the notes he realised how much he had been given . |
| 16 | We will restore last year 's training cuts which caused so much damage to training for young people and the unemployed . |
| 17 | However , Lois Maxwell , who played the ever-loyal Miss Moneypenny , says , ‘ Diana and I had lunch together and after eating some shrimps she realized how much garlic there had been in them . |
| 18 | Edward Boyle , whose thoughts and manner are finely captured in Maurice Kogan 's Politics of Education , was educated at Eton and Christ Church and belonged to that distinguished generation of Oxford men who dominated so much of post-war politics : Dick Crossman , Tony Crosland , Denis Healey , Harold Wilson , Roy Jenkins , Reginald Maudling , Michael Stewart , Tony Benn , Patrick Gordon Walker . |
| 19 | This inevitably makes MI5 seem impersonal , and hides the varied character traits and prejudices which contributed so much to its ethos and efficiency ( or lack of it ) . |
| 20 | Although all but a small part of the encircling wall has gone , the older part of the city , with its narrow winding streets which witnessed so much of Scotland 's history , is still clearly separate from the New Town , the two being surrounded by the Victorian and Edwardian developments . |
| 21 | Except that women were deferential to other speakers they would let they would they were they would allow themselves to be walked over in conversation but at the same time you had this stereotype of women who talked too much . |
| 22 | Inanna was the most beautiful , friendly , and uncooperative horse that one could ever have the misfortune to own ; because from her looks she promised so much , but from her heart she gave so little ! |
| 23 | ‘ From having literally dozens of fractures she progressed so much I ca n't remember the last time she had one . ’ |