Example sentences of "much give [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Gilligrew seems ideally cut out to be leader of a protest group : insecure , loud , unhumorous , indignant , unpleasant , small and much given to counting points off on his fingers . |
| 2 | We had owned the Sumatras for just a few months , but already we had seen that they are volatile and eccentric birds , much given to sudden screech-ups and bouts of cackling , which in other chickens would denote the arrival of an egg , but from them seem to signify only that they have given themselves a fright . |
| 3 | The students at Cuddesdon still found him very odd , and very unpractical , and very absent-minded , and much given to muttering to himself . |
| 4 | Being a lazy lad , much given to the idea of rising late when given half a chance , he had delayed his arrival in the world until 1 January . |
| 5 | Even before his accident , he 's much given to lighting his pipe , slumping in a chair and arguing that it 's no use pushing against fate . |
| 6 | He was tall and elegant , with a good head of hair , and was much given to pacing about . |
| 7 | Eamonn McCann described him as a ‘ passionate Republican , much given to violent rhetoric ’ . |
| 8 | Dalmellington , when I knew it , was very much a traditional Ayrshire mining village , with friendly people , much given to laughter and fun . |
| 9 | He would now and then play the most egregious fool in his carriage and was so much given to jesters , players and childish sports , to make himself merry , that anybody who saw his gravity on the one part and his folly and lightness on the other , would surely say that there were two distinct persons in him . |
| 10 | The Standard Five master Sammy Edwards was a quite volatile character much given to boxing his pupils ' ears — not only a painful but also dangerous practice . |
| 11 | He was much given to quoting that wonderful phrase to describe the endless battle between man and nature : ‘ the mild continuous epic of the soil ’ . |
| 12 | He was also much given to quotations and he quoted now . |
| 13 | They 're not much given to advertising such things . |
| 14 | The two divers , Chief Petty Officer Carrington and Petty Officer Grant , were curiously alike , both aged about thirty , of medium height and compact build : both were much given to smiling , a cheerfulness that in no way detracted from their almost daunting aura of competence . |
| 15 | Much given to allusions and cryptic references , all made , for good measure , in a Macedonian dialect . ’ |
| 16 | Like Brideshead Revisited ( 1945 ) , the novel is a fiercely funny tragedy : a paradox anticipated by Little Dorrit , however , which Waugh 's luckless hero is left endlessly reading aloud to his captor , and a paradox utterly characteristic of a nation much given to finding laughter in despair . |
| 17 | Despite , or perhaps because of , this late arrival social anthropologists are much given to tracing their intellectual pedigree to as remote and as illustrious ancestors as they can uncover . |
| 18 | Performances of Brahms 's piano sonatas tend to be either vigorous or spacious , the one approach emphasizing the impetuous element in this music written before he was 21 , and the other reminding us that even the young Brahms was a dour northerner much given to self-doubt . |
| 19 | He was not a man much given to talking , but there were times when she caught him glancing at her in a way that held its own silent eloquence . |
| 20 | Those whom we call ‘ self-made men ’ are much given to this hideous barbarism … |
| 21 | They 're not , it 's true , much given to murdering old men and children ; they do n't force Cardinals to ride facing the tails of donkeys through the streets . |
| 22 | He was much given to questions and hilarity . |
| 23 | I had wondered once whether that was the reason my father had married her , but that was before I had learned that men are not much given to acts of altruism , and certainly not in sexual matters . |
| 24 | Scholars and gentlemen were much given to complaining of the venality and corruption of stationers , but Martyn was to a large extent an exception . |
| 25 | Of medium height and strong build , Hobhouse ( despite his hay fever ) was much given to outdoor activities , undertaking long expeditions on his bicycle and riding to hounds with a recklessness that sometimes resulted in personal injury . |
| 26 | Much given to quarrelsome chases , habitually dives and has pattering take-off . |
| 27 | Gregarious , and easily told from Lapwing ( p. 125 ) in mixed flocks by pointed wings ; much given to aerial manoeuvres . |
| 28 | He was not a man , she had decided , much given to compassion . |
| 29 | A broken man , pale and much given to outbursts of weeping , a man trembling on the threshold of self-murder . |
| 30 | Much given to the creation of the chimera . ’ |