Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [vb past] much [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was born wi I never had much hair . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ I never had much time for him when he was young , but I never guessed he 'd do anything as rotten as this ! ’ |
| 4 | With me being a football fan , Leeds Utd to be more specific , I never took much interest in tennis . |
| 5 | He was also committed to and involved in the admission of women to the medical school , which obviously involved much tact and understanding in order to break down prejudices . |
| 6 | We tried to point out that the ‘ no deals ’ policy was obviously no deterrent to the kidnapping of Britons , but again , nobody really took much notice . |
| 7 | This selection of an elevated vantage point , which often required much exertion to reach , is an approach which separated Green from many of the earlier painters , but was subsequently followed by many . |
| 8 | Ironically she rarely used much make-up herself , but right now she could have done with a cover-up stick to hide the dark shadows beneath her eyes and some blusher to conceal at least a little of her pallor . |
| 9 | She never had much time for me before . ’ |
| 10 | Same as stud grooms , you never heard much stud grooms getting the sack . |
| 11 | She subsequently derived much revenue from exporting goods from her hinterland to Carthage . ’ |
| 12 | Most rural boundary disputes have their roots in the lackadaisical practices of country solicitors who never placed much importance on proper searches . |
| 13 | ‘ We never had much money ! |
| 14 | If they rarely had much chance in the more skilled manual jobs , unless apprenticed to some craft at home , they were probably better off than the poorest of the city-born . |
| 15 | They also aroused much antagonism ; and the last years of the war saw a determined effort by the king 's opponents to reduce his influence over Parliament and the political life of the country . |
| 16 | The South-West forwards tried to play a similar mauling game , but with Teague far short of his true form they seldom made much headway and only occasionally produced clean possession for Hill . |
| 17 | After leaving the Navy he also wrote much fiction , and as a novelist in the early post-war years his first published work , The Felthams ( 1950 ) , was thought highly of and his bestseller , The Rock ( 1957 ) , served to establish him as a writer of more than a little promise . |
| 18 | Not only did he do stupendous work in many areas of pure mathematics but he also devoted much time to probability , theory of errors , geodesy , mechanics , electromagnetism , optics and even actuarial science ! |
| 19 | Butler 's role at Crystal Palace was thus largely a supportive one and he seldom gained much publicity , but fans of the time recognised him as a useful contributor to the Palace cause . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Dawn Run ( twice ) Street Angel and Atha Cliath were all Mullins winners there but he never had much luck in the National . |
| 22 | He never had much enthusiasm for making money . |
| 23 | In any event he never had much stomach for serious campaigning . |
| 24 | He never had much regard for the damage drinking could cause him , yet oddly enough he did about others . |
| 25 | he never took much part in college life and eventually became an object of derision among medical students , who called him ‘ Mummy Jones ’ . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |