Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] [verb] [not/n't] [vb infin] much " in BNC.

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1 You should only consider doing anything else if you are absolutely certain that he is definitely going to kill you , in which case you do n't have much to lose .
2 But as a pensioner she did not think much of his performance in the Commons yesterday .
3 ‘ For the moment I do n't have much choice .
4 Upon being asked about this , one policeman explained , ‘ To tell you the truth I did n't notice much of a difference .
5 But in truth I did n't have much choice where I focused .
6 Even if he 'd already identified me as his deadly rival , at that point it did n't have much relevance . ’
7 It was not part of my plan to make a detour via Chastlecombe , but since you wo n't talk to me on the phone I did n't have much choice .
8 I mean Friday night we do n't do much anyway you know , I mean it 's like everything else if I do n't , if I say to mum , mum we 've got nothing to do , I mean it 's like everything else you ca n't afford to go out and do what , things that you would like to do , but you know like bingo and things , so we al , we get a game of cards going just to stop the rot and the boredom
9 Now I 'm an ex-gardener I 'm a horticulturist it take roughly about forty years for trees to reach maturity it does n't say much for our planners if they plan to put those trees there and then now are gon na have them up again it sounds much like change for changes sake and that that it basically my comment .
10 ‘ At my age you do n't need much sleep by night , and I spend a good deal of time sitting by the bedroom window , smoking my pipe and watching the sea …
11 Well between Gemma and the dog you do n't stand much chance do you ?
12 Bob went on from there , season in , season out , to the end of 1931–32 , by which time he had made 293 League appearances for Crystal Palace ( a club record at the time , but of course they did not make much of such things in those days ) and even today , almost 60 years later , there are fewer than only half a dozen Palace men who have played more times for us than that .
13 However , since the wave is providing all the power for the turn you do not need much power from the rig .
14 It 's an illness we do n't know much about , but sometimes it affects the muscles of a leg or an arm .
15 In fact the chronicle succeeds in having its cake and eating it , all the way back to the stir caused by Nicholas Stavrogin 's arrival in ‘ our town ’ , when it is recorded among other things that he seemed to know a lot — ‘ But of course it did n't take much knowledge to astonish us ’ .
16 The only woman I had anything to do with regularly was my mother , aid except at meals aid bed time I did not see much even of my mother .
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