Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] much " in BNC.
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| 1 | In April the Prince went off to the Kalahari Desert for a few days with Sir Laurens Van der Post , to see for himself the society that his friend had written and talked about so much . |
| 2 | It is doubtful whether any other golf course , with the exception of St Andrews , has been written about so much , photographed so lavishly and expanded upon so frequently . |
| 3 | Perhaps part of the fascination of movies has always been that they trigger off so many memories but what is interesting about so much film-making in the 1920s is that movies are so closely associated with that age of the masses that had come at the end of one century and the beginning of another . |
| 4 | The unsatisfactory conclusion that the conditional is about so much , or rather the unsatisfactory conclusion that the conditional is about a further statement about so much , follows from the metalinguistic view . |
| 5 | The unsatisfactory conclusion that the conditional is about so much , or rather the unsatisfactory conclusion that the conditional is about a further statement about so much , follows from the metalinguistic view . |
| 6 | It 's not when I wondered about so much as where ? ’ |
| 7 | He 'd lied about so much else , and it was quite clear now why he 'd wanted to know so much about Ryan , where he was , what he 'd done ; he 'd wanted to know how much or how little Ryan had told her so that he did n't make the same mistakes . |
| 8 | Are those the candy-floss , Mickey Mouse jobs that the hon. Member for Bolsover ( Mr. Skinner ) goes on about so much , or are those people just sponging off the backs of the poll tax payers ? |
| 9 | What is serious about so much school work generally is that so frequently it seems to fail to have any deep effect on life outside the classroom . |
| 10 | Then again , he talked with her because he longed to satisfy to meet her needs , as a human being she 'd aspiration , she 'd hope , she 'd desires and as she looked back on her life , some of them may have been fulfilled , some of her plans may have been realized , but there must have been an awful emptiness , and awful hollowness about so much . |
| 11 | But because people mi mess about so much it kills . |
| 12 | As a result , there are a lot of out-of-work would-be finance directors willing to work for much much less than their previous salaries , not that that appears to have had any effect on those in stable positions . |
| 13 | With more spirit and élan on the attack than the dogged Britisher , he was also much more impressionable in adversity , altogether less capable of the kind of orderly , defensive retreat such as Britain 's soldiers have been accustomed to during so much of her military history . |
| 14 | It would be immoral for me to give up on my son ; I have been through so much in the last three years , ’ she said . |
| 15 | How can I put the people I love so much through so much pain ? |
| 16 | I FEEL sorry for him because he 's been through so much — hammered in every way . |
| 17 | ‘ I 've been through so much more trouble than Sean , but he 's famous and nothing he ever does is secret . |
| 18 | Normally this could be kept under close observation and could clear up of its own accord in optimum conditions , but as these fish had already been through so much , I decided to treat then with herbs . |
| 19 | Shareholders in Unisys have been through so much misery , the fear that the IBM mainframe blight will soon infect the company is so great that no reasonable offer for the company is likely to be refused — and while the Unisys debt burden is now manageable , it is still onerous for a company of Unisys ' size , but AT&T 's credit remains almost as good as gold . |
| 20 | Looking back , it seems a wonderful enough thing that I who am this , and she who is that , commencing so far away a life that , after such sufferings borne together and apart , ended so tranquilly there in a world so stable — that she and I should have passed through so much , good chance and evil chance , sad hours and joyful , all lived down and swept away into the little heap of dust that is a life . |
| 21 | That was my point exactly , if people go through so much hassle to have a baby , then surely there 's gon na be less chance of abusing all that kind of trouble within the family ? |
| 22 | They 've gone through so much . |
| 23 | I know you 'll understand our anguish — you 've been through so much with your husband 's alcoholism . |
| 24 | I have been through so much of it myself . |
| 25 | and erm I was feeling ill at the time and I , I wondered why because he 'd been through so much suffering , you know , it was a happy release . |
| 26 | She 'd been through so much with an alcoholic daughter , unemployed husband and dyslexic son . |
| 27 | Got through so much money at Christmas , you know . |
| 28 | Every , we go through so much milk now with erm , having breakfast cereals and |
| 29 | ‘ She stands for so much . |
| 30 | For while your granny may have been content to envelope herself in a cloud of ‘ Tweed ’ each and every morning of her life — never daring to deviate from her ‘ trademark ’ perfume for so much as tea with the vicar — most of us , today , possess a positive wardrobe of perfumes to play with . |