Example sentences of "never [vb past] much [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Poor Johnny never got much sleep last night . |
| 2 | In the Labour movement it never made much impact , for it always remained an alien force , financed and directed from outside , but it achieved something in taking the battle on to the streets in order to break up the meetings of the left . |
| 3 | Same as stud grooms , you never heard much stud grooms getting the sack . |
| 4 | Most rural boundary disputes have their roots in the lackadaisical practices of country solicitors who never placed much importance on proper searches . |
| 5 | Apparently , he never wore much jewellery , unlike the majority of nobles that visited him , but that which he did wear was of fabulously high value . |
| 6 | He took his seat in the House of Lords on 4th July , 1859 , ‘ but never took much part in the debates ’ . |
| 7 | he never took much part in college life and eventually became an object of derision among medical students , who called him ‘ Mummy Jones ’ . |
| 8 | With me being a football fan , Leeds Utd to be more specific , I never took much interest in tennis . |
| 9 | Even when the central board of directors was expanded to include business and political elites as well as bureaucratic leaders , it never offered much depth in an analytical sense . |
| 10 | I was born wi I never had much hair . |
| 11 | He never had much enthusiasm for making money . |
| 12 | The Communist Party never had much influence on Tyneside other than among seamen . |
| 13 | ‘ We never had much money ! |
| 14 | But they brothers never had much luck . ’ |
| 15 | But like I said before , they Glynns never had much luck . |
| 16 | Dawn Run ( twice ) Street Angel and Atha Cliath were all Mullins winners there but he never had much luck in the National . |
| 17 | Although she was penniless , she managed to get back to England : Margery never had much difficulty in finding people who would give her money to go a long , long way away . |
| 18 | She never had much time for me before . ’ |
| 19 | She 'd been a sort of feminist before it became fashionable ; never had much time for all that sisterly stuff , but she was positive she was as good as any man and she 'd prove it … |
| 20 | ‘ I never had much time for him when he was young , but I never guessed he 'd do anything as rotten as this ! ’ |
| 21 | friend of ours , he , he hit his tooth , got a lovely tooth Ken he 's sixty one now , never had much trouble you know |
| 22 | Other people and think-tanks had come up with a similar recipe before and never had much impact . |
| 23 | He never had much regard for the damage drinking could cause him , yet oddly enough he did about others . |
| 24 | And I mean there are lots of things now er which er how can I say I never had much interest before erm never thought th that they when you 've seen the help in hand they 've dished out erm , S D P , the erm oh the Council of Churches which you know never There are all sorts of erm I tell you another people and erm I sha the Gay and Lesbian Society you know , people take them er lightly but er it makes you sit up and and think now . |
| 25 | In any event he never had much stomach for serious campaigning . |