Example sentences of "[pron] had much " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had much I would have said to them . |
| 2 | Or , apropos of the necessity of having a good historical imagination when reading , ‘ I had much rather know what I should feel like if I adopted the beliefs of Lucretius than how Lucretius would have felt if he had never entertained them . ’ |
| 3 | Initially , I had much support but then I became introverted . |
| 4 | Electricity and water on tap were unattainable dreams for most , but then , nobody had much time to indulge in dreams . |
| 5 | Not only did they need access to the non-arable resources controlled by the nobility , but their ever-growing land shortage compelled them to work for the nobility on conditions which had much in common with those of serfdom . |
| 6 | Soon after , she recognized in a certain strain of feminist theory an approach to language which had much in common with the approach she herself had been developing over a number of years . |
| 7 | Their antagonism , which had much more to do with a clash of temperaments than with deep issues of principle , convulsed the Company and drew national political factions into supporting one side or the other . |
| 8 | Not that she had much to put in it … the only other pieces of furniture were the bed and an old dressing-table with a cracked mirror . |
| 9 | What distressed her most was that she began to find herself liking the woman , with whom she realized she had much in common . |
| 10 | Not that she had much of a future to look forward to . |
| 11 | She had winkled out of him that he got the story from Georgie and she had much trouble persuading him it was a joke . |
| 12 | The General assured her they had thought long on the matter , and had decided not only that it would be a suitable appointment for her , but that she had much to contribute to social services . |
| 13 | ‘ I do n't think she had much time for him . |
| 14 | Her expression of gratitude was grudging , for she did n't feel she had much to thank him for . |
| 15 | Amaranth , who loved his clean-cut looks , rewarded him with a blinding smile , and said she had much more time for Disraeli . |
| 16 | Sir John Anderson , who had much to do with atomic weapons development , said he was ‘ as red as the flames of Hell ’ . |
| 17 | Was he human , semi-human , immaculately conceived or was he just a human being who recognised that evil was becoming widespread in the world , and that mankind was in danger of becoming dominated by those who had much to lose if it were suppressed ? |
| 18 | These changes of direction were confused by Admiral Sir Roger Keyes , who had much of the Churchillian spirit but no gift for cooperation with ministries . |
| 19 | Unlike Dönitz , he was a highly cultivated man who had much charm , spoke fluent , conversational English and was quite at home with the microphone . |
| 20 | This meant that two essentially judicial functions were exercised by the seneschal of Gascony under Edward I : first , an annual progress through the duchy to preside over assises at Bazas , Dax and St Sever , although the seneschal , who had much business elsewhere , often empowered a lieutenant to serve in his place . |
| 21 | Oh , I know the prince is n't a fascist , he 's got nothing but contempt for Musso ; Constanza says her father was never the man who had much faith in any trains running on time ; but he is a man who can still get favours from the regime . |
| 22 | I have travelled round England and Wales listening to many teachers who had much to say . |
| 23 | In many cases , whatever decision you made , you had much to lose , little to gain . |
| 24 | Yet I know you had much to contribute . ’ |
| 25 | No one had much money . |
| 26 | No one had much success with the tinned food , though , whether it was bully beef or the unnaturally sweet Spam . |
| 27 | In any case , no one had much time to look . |
| 28 | Not that we had much time for feeling anything , we were so busy in the Met Office just then . |
| 29 | We had much evidence during fieldwork that these complicated rules are maintained by community pressures : for example , when a young East Belfast informant applied a strategy of front-raising ( similar to RP ) to the item chap ( on a word-list ) , he was loudly mocked by his companions , who perceived his pronunciation as an attempt at RP ( which for them is an effeminate stereotype ) . |
| 30 | We had much to talk about . |