Example sentences of "much [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Test and County Cricket Board acted only hours after fining Allan Lamb five times as much for exposing Pakistan as ball-gouging cheats . |
| 2 | You ca n't get paid much for writin' out business letters . ’ |
| 3 | There is more than a grain of truth in the observation by A. P. Herbert that royal commissions were usually appointed ‘ not so much for digging up the truth , as for digging it in . ’ |
| 4 | Tell , thank him very much for telling him |
| 5 | Well , thank you ever so much for telling you about it . |
| 6 | Thank you ever so much for bringing me round , it 's very nice of you . |
| 7 | Thanks so much for sending on the extra questionnaire ; it was such a conscientiously answered one , too . |
| 8 | BT are damn stupid and charge too much for using their networks , so when you use other people 's passwords you are probably going to be ripping off a company like ICI or even BT . ’ |
| 9 | Mr Richardson , in the second day of his opening address to the jury , said Bedworth had written : ‘ BT are damn stupid and charge too much for using their networks . |
| 10 | Thanks so very much for getting me Bloomfield 's annotated NT , vol I. I 'm delighted to have it , and have just been spending some time revisiting a few cruces to see what explanations are offered . |
| 11 | She just hoped that the lady would not charge too much for taking the child off her hands . |
| 12 | So I thank you all very much for taking part in this , and I hope you have a happy seminar . |
| 13 | I I do n't I do n't I do n't have any more time , we 're just gon na have to leave it on that very er worrying note , but thanks all very much for taking part . |
| 14 | The traditional way of practising scales — up and down the fretboard in two octaves — is great for technique but does n't help much for connecting your ideas all over the fretboard in any given key . |
| 15 | You could too , choose rather different wall treatments for the dining part : flame-proofed fabric ; wallpaper , a warm , dark paint , and add pictures , prints , objects , favourite collections , bookshelves , anything that emphasises that the space is as much for living as for working in . |
| 16 | I am sure that today my tinkering with Dave Doyle and Phil Meek 's positions will prove too much for Dorning Town and the high-flying Twitchit Albion . |
| 17 | One problem with this cosy consensus , and its greatest irony , is that as a nation we take our pubs too much for granted . |
| 18 | Things we take so much for granted . |
| 19 | There were a lot of wonderful things about the organisation and about Tony DeFries — he really is a wonderful man and gave a lot of people a lot of opportunities , but we all took it so much for granted . |
| 20 | Salt and pepper are the two most common seasonings in cooking and are taken very much for granted . |
| 21 | But Hitler 's prophecy , highly significant though it appears in retrospect , was at the time probably taken much for granted by most ‘ ordinary ’ Germans in the context of the ever more overtly radical anti-Jewish policy of the regime — a ‘ prophecy ’ so commonplace in its sentiments that it scarcely prompted the need for exultant expressions of praise , just as it failed to stir up any animosity or repulsion . |
| 22 | Then the letters came fairly regularly , but they were strange at first — sometimes almost assuming the old relationship , sometimes defensively impersonal , as if he were afraid — we both were — to take too much for granted . |
| 23 | Opinion takes a world of countries so much for granted , it is mildly shocking to discover how recent the concept is . |
| 24 | We take chain mail very much for granted , seeing it depicted in paintings of the time , or in recent cinematic extravaganzas . |
| 25 | The activities which occur inside hospital and are taken so much for granted by staff can be bewilderingly strange to the patients . |
| 26 | Before I actually went to the Bristol Cancer Help Centre and learned a little of its history , I took it all very much for granted . |
| 27 | Perhaps I had been too forward , I thought , taken too much for granted . |
| 28 | So far , we have been taking the sound recording very much for granted . |
| 29 | There would have been the ill-lit halls , impractical sanitary arrangements , filthy rush-laid floors and sparsely furnished rooms ; and if period duplicates had existed of Elizabethan interiors or classical Queen Anne houses that showed the inadequate lighting , heating and plumbing of the sixteenth , seventeenth and eighteenth centuries , how much easier , the guests agreed , it would be to appreciate the modern refinements which their own contemporaries took so much for granted . |
| 30 | Despite these technical limitations , physiological psychologists take the lesion method very much for granted . |