Example sentences of "[ex0] [vb past] [adv] been much " in BNC.
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| 1 | As we journeyed back across the Orne bridges , I looked around at the happy faces in the truck ; up until now , there had n't been much to laugh about . |
| 2 | It seemed that , psychologically , there had n't been much improvement in Tammuz since then . |
| 3 | Fruit , surely , though there had not been much fruit on Ellen 's table , and bread , all children liked bread , familiar and comforting , but then Italian bread , baked with oil , was not English bread and she began to panic at the idea of him rejecting it and going hungry . |
| 4 | The regional administrator was able to report to the RHA at the end of the consultation period in November 1982 that ‘ there had not been much opposition to the proposed closures ’ . |
| 5 | It was immediately clear , as Max had said , that there had earlier been much blood ; soon clear , too , that the body was that of a comparatively young man ; the body of the man whom Morse had interviewed ( with such distaste ) the previous evening ; the man who had been cheated of the Wolvercote Jewel — and the man who now had been cheated of life . |
| 6 | There had never been much of a garden , only the rhododendrons flowering red and pink and lilac , where bees droned happily . |
| 7 | There had never been much spare cash in the Burrows household . |