Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [adv] much [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was no good , her brain seemed like so much candy-floss . |
| 2 | His friend vows steadfastness in friendship , but repeats his warning : his illness came from too much study , and he should n't do it again . |
| 3 | Gina capitulated with as much grace as possible as her companion padded across the room towards another door , beckoning her to follow him . |
| 4 | painting the kitchen once and I got into so much trouble it took him so long to rub it all off and start again , he made me promise I 'd never touch a paint brush again but he I mean , he would definitely be able to tell you what paint he used and |
| 5 | ‘ What are you doing here ? ’ she asked with as much control as she could muster . |
| 6 | Hetty , the child of a clergyman and one of 19 siblings , had been taught , as a child , to cry softly for fear of being beaten ; ‘ by which means , ’ she wrote , ‘ the family usually lived in as much quietness as if there had not been a child among them . ’ |
| 7 | According to this theory the earlier generational pairing was abandoned because it led to so much inbreeding that people who practised the gens system were genetically more fit for natural selection and therefore survived better . |
| 8 | We went to so much trouble because we were aware of the power of cultural conditioning . |
| 9 | Now aged fifty-four years , Rodrigo was still a splendid figure , possessed of as much energy and strength as in his youth — but he had campaigned almost unceasingly for nearly thirty years against the Moors and against Christian enemies . |
| 10 | Henry was an exacting master , possessed of so much energy that it was popularly rumoured that he could fly , so swiftly did he travel from place to place . |
| 11 | The artwork has been researched and sketched with as much care as every other aspect of this restoration . |
| 12 | ‘ You do n't mind my using the house as if it were my own ? ’ he cried with as much boisterousness as he could muster , waving the bottle like a flag . |
| 13 | D'Arcy smiled with as much charm as he could muster . |
| 14 | ‘ So you 're Bob 's … assistant ? ’ she said with too much inflection . |
| 15 | Jenna had never heard her own name said with so much accusation and all she could do was nod her head , words sticking in her throat at the blast of displeasure in the dark voice . |
| 16 | Shivers running through her , she said with as much insouciance as she could muster , ‘ I 'm very tired , and it 's work tomorrow . |
| 17 | ‘ I doubt it , ’ Lucy said with as much calm as she could muster , trying to ignore the surge of misery growing within her . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm just curious , ’ I said with as much innocence as I could muster , ‘ but of course , if you 're scared of the place … ’ |
| 19 | The responsibility for drawing the first furrow on a narrow stetch was one the head horseman could not afford to delegate , unless it was to a man equally skilled as himself ; for a stetch that did not come out , at every point , exactly to the inch would render ineffective the use of implements that had been designed specially for it ; again , a botched stetch was visible to all — to the casual passer-by and to the practised eye of his neighbour ; and the ‘ loss of face ’ a head horseman suffered through allowing the standard of his own work to be below that of the next farm 's was enough to make him ensure that every field was laid out and ploughed with as much care as patience and long-practised skill made possible . |
| 20 | ‘ The chalets are kept for group bookings , ’ Lucy explained with as much patience as she could muster . |