Example sentences of "much as [pers pn] [vb past] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Wait , calm yourself , sabiha tieghi , my beautiful one , ’ he teased softly , unbuttoning his shirt with fingers which shook almost as much as hers had done . |
| 2 | The fields became parched and brown and the cattle required additional concentrate feed much as they had done the previous year . |
| 3 | At one time , young professionals could borrow as much as they liked to buy their home , on the promise of their growing salary and sure prospects . |
| 4 | We had a very good time , & good weather , for the rest of our stay , & I think Richard enjoyed showing us the many attractions of his area as much as we enjoyed seeing them . |
| 5 | We found Royston much as we had left it . |
| 6 | Sadly , as much as we wanted to keep her , we were out at work all day , and lived in a flat without a garden . |
| 7 | I really do feel she liked working here as much as we liked having her , and not only for her work ; she was such a nice person , so warm and lively . ’ |
| 8 | Her own strong and unthinking rejection of him had shocked her as much as it had shocked him . |
| 9 | The game exploded into life very much as it had done in Glasgow . |
| 10 | And the tone of the voice seemed to surprise Sister Aloysius as much as it had done the Mother Superior . |
| 11 | Unemployment problems put paid to Labour 's political prospects in the early 1930s just as much as it had helped the party to rise to political power in the 1920s . |
| 12 | For , proving that he cared for his family every bit as much as it had seemed , he said , ‘ Hello , Travis , come in . |
| 13 | He had tackled her about Pascoe and , although she had reacted much as he 'd expected , perhaps she would think it over and do what he advised . |
| 14 | But he had not missed it as much as he 'd thought he might . |
| 15 | The herring looked delicious but he was n't at all sure he was going to enjoy it as much as he 'd thought . |
| 16 | It is further urged upon me that the justices , having found as a fact that the parents had been in continuous contact with each other , and the justices being satisfied that there were grounds for believing that both the children were likely to suffer significant harm , which was a specific finding that they made , they were plainly wrong in refusing to make an interim order in that they first of all failed to have regard to the fact that the parents had colluded over the cause of D. 's injuries , and there was evidence to that effect ; secondly , that the mother had lied to social services , Dr. Barnardo 's and the guardian about having had at the relevant times no contact with the father — and that is indeed what the mother has done , she has lied ; and , thirdly , that the father had been in breach of a term of the bail conditions which had been imposed upon him , not only on 23 December 1991 but ever since his release in as much as he had visited and contacted the mother . |
| 17 | In attempting to deflect opinion from the disappointments of the previous winter and the lack of prospect of an early end of the war and to revamp morale through blaming others for Germany 's misfortunes — much as he had done in the years before 1933 — Hitler had lifted a corner of the veil of the ‘ Führer myth ’ and revealed a glimpse of the arbitrary , dictatorial , and irrational way he responded to the first reverses he and the nation had had to suffer . |
| 18 | Proceeding much as he had done with his houses , Edouard first refurbished them . |
| 19 | Indeed , very much as he had imagined it . |
| 20 | He had fantasized about her death almost as much as he had fantasized about Elinor 's . |
| 21 | However , glancing at Pat , it seemed to have gone pretty much as he had expected . |
| 22 | He believed she must have sent him the bill personally , wanting to meet him as much as he wanted to meet her . |
| 23 | He let her see just as much as he wanted to reveal , and no more . |
| 24 | It was much as I had expected . |
| 25 | Although the story was my own , the background was very much as I had remembered it , the characters very much as I had remembered them . |
| 26 | Although the story was my own , the background was very much as I had remembered it , the characters very much as I had remembered them . |
| 27 | I often wondered if he enjoyed using my toothbrush as much as I enjoyed using his . |
| 28 | I mean , Ziggy really said as much as I meant to say all along . |
| 29 | My distended bladder was n't helping matters , but it was n't holding me back as much as I 'd feared , either . |
| 30 | ‘ But by the time I was eighteen , I realised that , as much as I loved studying the past , my greatest joy came from — well , I suppose you 'd describe it as planning things and watching them grow . ’ |