Example sentences of "[verb] not much " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is the situation where the relief is most likely to be needed and if it excluded not much is left . |
| 2 | Jean has n't much time — and I think I might do it quite well . ’ |
| 3 | The last time we met he had just bought a new boat , having taken up sailing in his spare time ( but he has n't much of that ) . |
| 4 | But he has n't much of a choice . |
| 5 | She really has n't much choice , there 's the glorified schoolmarm ; there 's the brave little woman who tries to be a good wife and housewife , and I daresay mother , as well , and makes a point of her pretty clothes ; and there 's the bluestocking , the eccentric and frump , the mathematic 's dean who does n't know which side her tea-cup is chipped . |
| 6 | The front bit has n't much blood in it , but the two side bits when they fill up with blood and they start to stretch , it 's like blowing up a balloon . |
| 7 | ‘ After all , Master Taplow has n't much time left , he 's to die at two this afternoon . |
| 8 | No , we , we 're looking at individual cases still , and , indeed they will be reviewed as ind individual cases in the future , with the Health Authority clearly recognizing that it has n't much of a responsibilities on them . |
| 9 | At the top of the scale , landlords and big yeomen farmers owned not much less than one-third of the wealth of Norfolk and Sussex . |
| 10 | It was comforting to note , however , that , so far at any rate , the little blind boy had shown not much talent for destruction . |
| 11 | Yeah but you ca n't that was a little bit fluky you know not much . |
| 12 | In some respects there seems not much room for argument about our conception of standard effects and their causal circumstances . |
| 13 | It seems not much has happened in that period . |
| 14 | The constitutional issues thus become not much more than flourishes to a fait accompli . |
| 15 | The constitutional issues thus become not much more than flourishes to a fait accompli . |
| 16 | The children saw not much of him because all day he was out at his duties and in the evenings he retired to his study to convert his lectures into books . |
| 17 | amnio amniotic fluid , and onigo means not much |
| 18 | He himself did not much value the small detached territories — Cleves , Mark , Ravensberg — which he ruled in the Rhineland . |
| 19 | Maternal influence did not much interest contemporaries usually , unless some obvious connection could be established , or possibly where the connections on the distaff side were more impressive and influential . |
| 20 | The sights and smells of death did n't much distress him . |
| 21 | As they were descending , Reynolds said , ‘ I get the impression that you did n't much rate Jenner . ’ |
| 22 | She did n't much rate her chances of getting hold of the key to Charlie 's desk , but the desk itself was so old and the drawer appeared to be so ill-fitting that a touch of leverage might just spring it open . |
| 23 | They had not much time . |
| 24 | Since he made swiftly towards the forest , I had not much option but to follow . |
| 25 | Yeltsin had given a dramatic description of tanks closing in and said that he believed that he had not much time left . |
| 26 | He learned about world events rather as a Trobriand Islander might — from chance remarks and accidental contacts — and , from the little he had heard , he had not much desire to know more . |
| 27 | Companies responsible for its prospects have gone out of business seven times , discovering that while they could make money on the big promotions , the building and park were too expensive to run on a tickover basis ( nowadays the park alone costs £650,000 a year to maintain ) , and in an earlier era of six-day working weeks , the public had not much leisure time to spend there anyway . |
| 28 | and he certainly had not much patience and we had never seen this afore . |
| 29 | They 've not much time for things that are n't either pleasurable or functional . |
| 30 | and we 've not much fur ; |