Example sentences of "[pers pn] 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | What distressed her most was that she began to find herself liking the woman , with whom she realized she had much in common . |
| 6 | Not that she had much of a future to look forward to . |
| 7 | She had winkled out of him that he got the story from Georgie and she had much trouble persuading him it was a joke . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ I do n't think she had much time for him . |
| 10 | Her expression of gratitude was grudging , for she did n't feel she had much to thank him for . |
| 11 | Amaranth , who loved his clean-cut looks , rewarded him with a blinding smile , and said she had much more time for Disraeli . |
| 12 | In many cases , whatever decision you made , you had much to lose , little to gain . |
| 13 | Yet I know you had much to contribute . ’ |
| 14 | Not that we had much time for feeling anything , we were so busy in the Met Office just then . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | We had much to talk about . |
| 17 | They had much to do , including drawing explosives and equipment from local depots , and liaison with the police and local authorities . |
| 18 | The pensioner movement is only growing very slowly in Britain and it is hard to imagine the prosperous 20 per cent of pensioners feeling they had much in common with the 40 per cent who are completely dependent on state benefits . |
| 19 | When the French were here they had much freedom in the camp because they were sensible and did not try to escape . |
| 20 | They had much goods for Gairloch , and not a little to take on board . |
| 21 | During that two hours they realised that they had much in common . |
| 22 | Formerly , we are told , people died before they had much time to develop these diseases . |
| 23 | Optimistic that they were on the right track , but aware that much still had to be done , first thing on the morning of Monday , 13 March Fleischmann sent a fax to Harwell and then talked on the phone the next day remarking that their information was incomplete , that they had much more to do before they would be confident enough and expressing irritation that they were being ‘ rushed into premature publication ’ . |
| 24 | Yet it seemed to me they had much to learn when it came to manners and plain humanity . |
| 25 | She and Earl Spencer worked on a book for the Greater London Council called What is Our Heritage ? and soon found they had much in common . |
| 26 | They had much more to do with the politics of the relations between central and local government than with financial procedures . |
| 27 | Both admitted that they had much in common with the Liberals , but both dreamt of political careers with the Conservatives . |
| 28 | Though Steven had not yet qualified as a doctor/passed his A levels/opened his restaurant/learned to tell the difference between a gasket and a sprocket , it was obvious that they had much in common . |
| 29 | ( Or : At first it did n't look as if they had much in common . ) |
| 30 | Lydia watched it , thinking that they had much in common except that she had her prey in her grasp and was already preparing it for consumption . |