Example sentences of "much [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although he was still , of course , a professional of the highest class , he was now in his seventies and much ravaged by arthritis and other ailments . |
| 2 | He was , besides , still very active in public school and Church of England affairs , being much consulted over appointments . |
| 3 | She is holiday in Gers , a very exclusive part of France , but would much prefer to be going to Tobago . |
| 4 | During the next fortnight , she divided her attentions equally between him and Dunbar , but , she whispered to Harry one evening in the back of the Bentley , she would much prefer to be with him and she was being nice to Pogo only because she did n't want to hurt his feelings . |
| 5 | ‘ I want to stay out here , that 's all , and I would much prefer to be alone . ’ |
| 6 | I mean , in the long run their both , they both give the same outcome , alright , but farmers want to try and avoid that variability of income , alright , so they 'll much prefer to , instead of having , you know , they probably prefer erm , a certain income of forty pounds rather than erm , an equal chance of getting one hundred pounds or zero . |
| 7 | Only I would much prefer for us to stay here … ’ |
| 8 | We are all perhaps very much formed by our inheritance . |
| 9 | Blue eyeshadow , much reviled for the past five years , is back at Chanel , Lancôme and Rubinstein and has never been out at Lauder — Mrs Lauder is a firm believer in the power of blue . |
| 10 | Women whose ovaries produce too much suffer from hair on the face and chest , which they find very upsetting . |
| 11 | Few historians today place much trust in the sagas ( which apparently included a lost work on Cnut written c.1200 ) as sources for the eleventh century , but the verses which they quote are another matter . |
| 12 | Other notable examples include the Church at Znojmo and S. Maurice at Olomouc , though the latter has been much altered on the exterior ; it has a hall church interior . |
| 13 | But these rooms were much altered between 1865 and 1868 in a neo-Rococo style that was intended to blend with the 18C Rococo designs of Pacassi for the proposed coronation of Emperor Franz Josef I. In the end the emperor refused the crown of Bohemia deeming it too dangerous to accept it and upset the Hungarians . |
| 14 | The rest of the interior had been very much altered over the years and little original work of consequence remained visible . |
| 15 | It is a two-storey mill ( now open to the public ) which he built in 1752 , though it has been much altered since that time . |
| 16 | North Cave boasts two public houses : the White Hart on Westgate , built in 1776 , but much altered at the front , was one of the main coaching inns in the mid 19th century ; and the Black Swan on Church Street , rebuilt in 1813 , where ladies could buy bonnets and trimmings in a little shop in the small single-storied part at the far end . |
| 17 | The present head office was built in 1806 but extended and much altered in 1870 . |
| 18 | Within the National Parks , all land use surveys have shown how their landscapes have been much altered in recent years by the advance of agriculture and forestry ( Leonard , 1980 ) although as Table 8.2 shows , both National Parks and Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty ( AONBs ) still contain very few urban areas ( Anderson , 1980 ) . |
| 19 | There are many examples which date from well into the thirteenth century in a style not much altered from 100 years earlier . |
| 20 | But how , with an electronic document , do you discern its origins , whether it is the work of more than one hand , how much altered from an original first draft , and so on ? |
| 21 | But here again the knowledge is so practical , so much preconditioned by behaviour , that it can be taught and is taught mainly by doing what they are told to do on particular occasions and by not being allowed to do or to touch certain things that are always within their experience . |
| 22 | Mr Hicks ' framework is well presented but much travelled by many companies , set on improving the quality of cost information based on sound and robust examples . |
| 23 | A thick stolon was much delayed in its passage ; at one place it was forced to turn at right angles to its former course ; at another place it could not pass through the pins , and the hinder part became bowed ; it then curved upwards and passed through an opening between the upper part of some pins which happen to diverge ; it then descended and finally emerged through the crowd ’ ( Darwin , 1880 ) . |
| 24 | The collapse must have been much commented on in the Edinburgh print and publishing trade , but the local press was discreet . |
| 25 | George , it has been much commented upon , likes a key phrase , one that sticks and simmers in the jury 's mind . |
| 26 | It 's a different matter , though , when one of the protagonists is somebody we 've very much heard of and would n't mind sitting next to at dinner : a secretary of state , for example , or a dishy actor . |
| 27 | Though much resented by MPs who had had to go through the tiresome business of getting people to vote for them , he proved a determined and effective minister , until he decided he 'd had enough of the political rough-and-tumble which went with the job . |
| 28 | Henry 111 s dependence upon Louis IX for support against his own vassals in England was much resented by them , and Louis was thought by some of his own counsellors to have ‘ given away too much ’ to his Plantagenet kinsman in 1259 . |
| 29 | The result is almost despotic power for the central government and this is as much resented by the colonials as by the natives themselves . ’ |
| 30 | There were about twenty passengers ( this was no passenger ship ) and we slept in the mess , on benches and deckchairs , much resented by the crew , each of us with his possessions , or his secret , crushed like a lover in his arms and whispered to in all the languages of Europe … |