Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [vb past] [adv] much " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | To Agnes 's mind she laughed too much . |
| 6 | It was his home , his passport to the world of pain and violence he enjoyed so much . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The judge himself recognised as much . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | By now Artemis was quite helpless with laughter , and had to put her napkin to her face in case she made too much noise . |
| 15 | Dorothy was a popular chairman who put in much hard work during her six years . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | As I caught his eye I realized how much I wanted to hold him in my arms again , and squeeze his rolls of fat . |
| 18 | He played one record I liked so much I decided to go out and buy it . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | And he returned again to the article which symbolised so much , on which he had begun to pin all his hopes . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Condemned as cowards , deserters , they were shot by their own side in a war which wiped out much of a generation . |
| 24 | Thanks also go to the publishing team who put so much into making this possible , they are ( in obligatory alphabetical order ) : Moray ‘ World Traveller ’ Lawson Debbie ‘ Where 's my contact lens ’ Maddison Deirdre ‘ Baby obsession ’ Seeley Joe ‘ Newsdesk ’ Tarrant |
| 25 | Probably this was no longer true , for I had seen an African in town who seemed very much at home . |
| 26 | Orwell , you remember , that great Englishman who knew so much about our national character and wrote about it , some of his best essays characterised decency as a British peculiarity . |
| 27 | She turned her face to the light , and silently , incoherently , not knowing which deity she addressed , she thanked the gods , who had been so kind to her , and to the husband she loved so much . |
| 28 | One of his strange exploits among other frolics , was having a coffin made of copper ( which one of his mines had that year produced ) , and placed in the great hall , and instead of his making use of it as a monitor that might have made him ashamed and terrified at his past life , and induce him to make amends in future , it was filled with punch , and he and his comrades soon made themselves incapable of any sort of reflection ; this was often repeated , and hurried him on to that awful moment he had so much reason to dread . |
| 29 | He was not sure that Jehan had been talking about the arrows , and remembering that Jehan was Burun 's grandson he wondered how much he knew , or had been told , about the plan to obtain Sidacai 's freedom . |
| 30 | Now the other gentleman I liked very much . |