Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [vb past] so much " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes he was even prevailed upon to stay for dinner , which was usually a casual meal with everyone grouped around Faye and the wheeled tray that was placed in front of her on the padded lounge seat where she spent so much of her time . |
| 2 | for about a month , six weeks , cos I had so much on me mind |
| 3 | Listening carefully for any sound that might indicate fitzAlan 's presence , she stretched out a cautious foot , ready to withdraw it immediately if she encountered so much as a hint of him . |
| 4 | ‘ Then , if you knew so much , I wish you 'd warned me that we were about to change direction quite so abruptly . ’ |
| 5 | Punk did n't mean shit to a palm tree to them even if it meant so much to us . |
| 6 | It struck her as odd , for example , that Turner , if he spent so much time on Chelsea Reach , should n't have known that a seagull always alights on the highest point . |
| 7 | I first went into therapy because my doctor could n't explain my constant flu symptoms , and because I carried so much tension . |
| 8 | I used to tell myself that it was because I wanted so much to believe it that I felt that way . |
| 9 | Because you lost so much body water in the heat , small boys brought tumblers of iced water at the end of every set . |
| 10 | Instantly , he sprang to his feet and suggested , in fact all but insisted , that we interview her instead of him because she knew so much more about him than he did . |
| 11 | He held out his arms then , and because she hurt so much , because she wanted to be a little girl again , she went to him and the tears came . |
| 12 | When the counsellor asked him how he felt about not having sex , he replied that he thought that sex was often ‘ overblown ’ and that , anyway , he did not want to bother Sarah with his attentions , because she had so much else on her plate . |
| 13 | ‘ I wouldn't. ever want to be a princess , ’ Dot sometimes said , because she wanted so much to be one . |
| 14 | because she paid so much for it , over fifteen pounds right , because she paid so much for it because they 're usually fifteen pounds each and so two would cost you thirty pounds and because those were so expensive . |
| 15 | because she paid so much for it , over fifteen pounds right , because she paid so much for it because they 're usually fifteen pounds each and so two would cost you thirty pounds and because those were so expensive . |
| 16 | We used to joke that we almost got nose bleeds when we stood up to our normal size because we spent so much time at floor level . ’ |
| 17 | What I find though , erm , becau my , because we got so much stuff coming in for the shop anyway , like the lettuce or the fruit and veg , my parents don , you know , like most people go , yo your mother probably goes , how many , how often does she make a shopping trip ? |
| 18 | The arched terracotta mount was chosen to remind me of the colour and style of Portuguese houses , and the frame was another easy choice because we saw so much dark wood furniture there . |
| 19 | I could n't go out with Dominic because we had so much to do . |
| 20 | Anyway , I knew what she was going through since I had been obliged to have all my top teeth out just before the storms started because they ached so much . |
| 21 | Because they had so much more energy available to them , cyanobacteria exploded into a vast array of different forms . |
| 22 | She was already turning against the frills of earlier years , partly because they consumed so much factory time . |
| 23 | Abrams knew much of the plot , however ; it was precisely because he knew so much that he recognized when to hold back . |
| 24 | Fenella thought that it was a pity that Caspar was so scared of the giants , because he knew so much about Tara that he might have been of considerable help . |
| 25 | Rufus wondered if he might have invented that part because he had so much to do with wombs in the course of his own daily life . |
| 26 | Perhaps because he spent so much of his time alone , he told me all about his wife , his two children , the home they had bought in Sanderstown , how long he had been married , where the children went to school — all the details of life in a town of about 60,000 people . |
| 27 | Very sad that he should no longer be a member of the Government , because he contributed so much to it . |
| 28 | There were white lines in the brown flesh at the side of his eyes because he smiled so much . |
| 29 | ‘ It was because it meant so much that I ca n't remember ! ’ she protested . |
| 30 | In Britain , the great limestone development of early Carboniferous ( Mississippian ) age used to be called the " Mountain Limestone " because it formed so much of our upland scenery . |