Example sentences of "[vb pp] so much " in BNC.
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| 1 | She said this with a certain violence , and Clara 's attention quickened , for she thought she was about to witness the emergence of one of the buried conflicts of which she had heard so much : but Mrs Denham said quickly , " For goodness sake , Clelia , you know how good it is for me to have James around , it takes me back to those lovely days when you were all so small and docile . " |
| 2 | Strangely inferior , somehow , for Churchill to have placed so much trust in . |
| 3 | She 's arranged so much this time . ’ |
| 4 | She 'd come so far , she 'd given so much … and all of it would be meaningless without a final context of success . |
| 5 | Typical is S. Botolph 's Church , Boston , in Lincolnshire , called colloquially the ‘ Boston Stump ’ because its top storey was added so much later than the rest of the church and for many years the tower had a decapitated appearance ( 476 ) . |
| 6 | ‘ You will perceive by the accompanying prospectus that I have commenced another work of much greater magnitude [ than the Century ] ; for my own part I should have been more anxious to have gone on with unfigured foreign birds and by that means have added so much the more interest to the science of ornithology , but the greater number of the subscribers to my other work not paying attention to birds generally but limiting themselves to those of our own country , they have frequently reiterated their request that I should commence a similar work on the Birds of [ 'this country ’ crossed out ] Europe and this has been the only motive for my undertaking so laborious a task . ’ |
| 7 | And the reason why she had been so slow to recognise him was that on the ship he had looked so much older . |
| 8 | He kept thinking of the girl in Mu Chua 's House of the Ninth Ecstasy ; the singsong girl , White Orchid , who had looked so much like Vesa . |
| 9 | They had left the paddock gate open , and Joe had taken advantage of it to go in search of more of the nice green apples he remembered having enjoyed so much the previous day — but this time he did n't reach Jessica Turvey 's orchard ; he got himself trapped in the marsh . |
| 10 | Depression clamped itself round Melissa 's head and shoulders and the meal she had enjoyed so much lay like a stone in her stomach as she drove home . |
| 11 | And then another weird thing — wan na hear about my playground ? — there were all these coffins from the cemetery and the ground had eroded so much they were coming out . |
| 12 | Not that it would have mattered so much : we could have gone on , wrangling over terms and leaving the outcome to chance , and there is , after all , quite a lot to be said for anticipation . |
| 13 | One afternoon after they had been for a swim together , Sycorax said , as Ariel took her on her back again , grunting for the old woman had grown so much heavier , it seemed , since her immersion , ‘ You are having the red man 's child . ’ |
| 14 | Your mother had an amazing imagination — that 's where yours comes from — she could have done so much better with her life … |
| 15 | There had always been a feeling of pre-destination with Richard and now that they had both suffered so much it seemed stronger than ever . |
| 16 | I 'd have felt so much better if this person had at least a year 's sentence . |
| 17 | One advantage is that the animals do n't have to be moved so much so lorries do n't clog up town centres , but there are disadvantages , market day is a chance for farmers to meet and keep track of prices . |
| 18 | With an infinite adjustment depth of cutting control mounted on the front of the machine , coupled to the TCT mini blades , the power to produce 3200 cuts per minute and a non-marking die-cast aluminium base , all mean accuracy , and that a professional finish is made so much easier . |
| 19 | There are also hints of the four-generation families which longer life has now made so much more common , when — though still very rarely indeed — a great-grandparent is recalled . |
| 20 | The sexual irregularities of which biographers have made so much were not in themselves important or unusual for a ruler of that age . |
| 21 | If weapons could be made so much more destructive , if used , the results would be cataclysmal , and could endanger the existence of the planet and all life on it . |
| 22 | For men who 've seen so much they 'd rather forget , this at least , was a day to remember |
| 23 | Yet , tragically , the marriage which had promised so much became empty and joyless in later years . |
| 24 | He 's got so much older these last few years . ’ |
| 25 | Well the thing is you see I think wha from what I 've gathered on from the radio programme is that the actual erm the attitude of the kids to the metro had got so much worse that they 're having to do something about it |
| 26 | She 's got so much tuna she could bloody start an aquarium up . |
| 27 | And there at Stamford , the beautiful town that Celia Fiennes and Defoe had admired so much remained almost exactly as they had seen it : but fossilised , moribund . |
| 28 | ‘ The thing I remember about my first visit is that I had never sung so much before . |
| 29 | His theory required him to specify a reason why the human branch of the evolutionary tree had advanced so much further than those which led to the living apes . |
| 30 | ‘ He 'd cared so much about concealing his past when he was alive , it seemed unfair to reveal it after he was dead , ’ Ashley said ruefully . |