Example sentences of "much [subord] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the end I decided it did n't matter much where I went as long as it was up . |
| 2 | Ca n't say I 've learnt much although I 've started it again and again in the last two years . |
| 3 | I do n't drink and do n't go out much so I manage on the money . |
| 4 | I do n't suppose it would matter much if I fell in anyhow , cos I can nearly swim . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'd just like to say thank you very much because I 've had such a lovely holiday . |
| 6 | ‘ My weak spots are my right knee and lower back , but I wo n't let on much because I like to make out I am indestructible . ’ |
| 7 | I never said much because I wanted to keep my options open . |
| 8 | Although I do n't feel I 've changed much because I 'm doing exactly the same things . |
| 9 | ‘ It would n't matter much because I have a reputation , one that I 'm really stretching to the full in doing a feature on sunny Spain . |
| 10 | Yet loyal Yorkshire fans in and around Teesside need not worry too much because I am confident Acklam Park will continue to stay on the White Rose map . |
| 11 | ‘ I have learned much since I last saw you , ’ Cleo said , in a small , contrite voice . |
| 12 | She thought : I must be here because it does n't matter to me much whether I live or die . |
| 13 | I started using cow much when I did n't have any plaster or cement . |
| 14 | And then , of course , I was n't able to attend much when I was left on my own after Mother and Uncle Tommy died and I had all the milking and farmwork to do myself . |
| 15 | I do n't think Selina exercises the Fiasco much when I 'm in the States , and of course Alec Llewellyn has no use for it , now that he 's locked up twenty-four hours a day |
| 16 | ‘ As I told you , I did n't go out much when I worked in London , but I 've got a silk dress which I wore on the few times I went to the opera . |
| 17 | Much as I wanted to read the good news on my walk home from the newspaper shop , I was forced to concentrate on my footing on broken and delapidated pavements , strewn with take-away food rubbish , wrappings of all kinds , and collections of weeds , heaps of dog dirt and drinks cans . |
| 18 | Much as I admire the French , nothing can compare with being back home in good old Blighty . |
| 19 | Much as I tried to break in several times , they always caught me and would n't let me in to see the poor people travelling . |
| 20 | While I was afflicted with serious English composition and English literature , I was reading Scott , Fenimore Cooper , Henty , and the travellers , because I loved them ; I was also thinking and talking in a manner which owed little to those dignified exercises , though the day was to come when I spoke very much as I wrote … |
| 21 | We would say : ‘ Much as I love you , I can not condone this behaviour . |
| 22 | That would slay me , Charles , much as I love it . ’ |
| 23 | ’ She told it to them much as I 'd told her myself . |
| 24 | ‘ Much as I 'd like to think my father was somebody important , there 's no real evidence . |
| 25 | Much as I esteem you , I will not manipulate events for your personal gratification . ’ |
| 26 | What happens there is that a ‘ really gay ’ reading of Coward is put into play , much as I have already done with Brief Encounter , but on the grounds that a homosexual writer can only write about homosexuality ( analogous cases would be the insistence that Edward Albee 's Who 's Afraid of Virginia Woolf is ‘ really ’ about a gay couple , or that Tennessee Williams 's Blanche Dubois is nothing but a transposed drag queen ) . |
| 27 | Much as I like my Barbour , I have to admit it is not a safe colour and wear a reflective Sam Browne belt in poor weather . |
| 28 | Much as I had enjoyed ‘ my Soviet adventure ’ it was good to be back in an English-speaking land again . |
| 29 | Much as I regard them as a social nuisance on a par with the Orange Walk and invented by the devil to prevent churchgoers getting to church on time , I can not claim that marathons have ( yet ) been proved to kill enough people to justify banning them . |
| 30 | Therefore , much as I may myself enjoy theatre-going and much as I may cheer when I see a full theatre , I must contain my own enthusiasm if I am to be a cool observer . |