Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [verb] [adv] much [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was only then that I properly realised how much pressure there is on children today to succeed academically . |
| 2 | It was only then that I properly realised how much pressure there is on children today to succeed academically . |
| 3 | ‘ I only have so much godfather rank . |
| 4 | I get so , I just bung so much stuff in my lunchbox I do n't eat . |
| 5 | ‘ I just have so much respect for him , and to have known him , someone in that position , is interesting . |
| 6 | But I already have too much blood on my hands . |
| 7 | When I moved from my own place er in Walmgate to here I still underestimated how much furniture I 'd got . |
| 8 | I even knew how much smoke fumes come out from nought to sixty . |
| 9 | I never know how much money I 've got in there . |
| 10 | I never knew how much Milhaez could see , and how much he steered from memory . |
| 11 | Where shall ye now get as much money as ye owe ? ’ , and when she was given forty pence she bought herself a furred cloak with it rather than paying off any of her debts . |
| 12 | For this she naturally needs as much information as possible , but is always happy to guide families through what is needed , or to undertake research . |
| 13 | ( The only failures at innovation that I saw in high-tech firms occurred when the manager thought he or she already had so much power that coalition building was unnecessary . ) |
| 14 | You just waste so much time . |
| 15 | ‘ You always had too much lip . ’ |
| 16 | Have you ever told so much truth as when you were first in love ? |
| 17 | To test this , ease the mainsheet slightly , and if the boat speed jumps up you know that you probably have too much checkstay tension . |
| 18 | She really has n't much choice , there 's the glorified schoolmarm ; there 's the brave little woman who tries to be a good wife and housewife , and I daresay mother , as well , and makes a point of her pretty clothes ; and there 's the bluestocking , the eccentric and frump , the mathematic 's dean who does n't know which side her tea-cup is chipped . |
| 19 | After that , since she now spent as much time as possible on deck keeping out of the way of her cousins , with whom she felt a constraint , Ruth saw the woman for several days in a row . |
| 20 | I do n't think you quite realise how much money 's being bet on plainsong . |
| 21 | If I sometimes recognized this , I blamed my Aunt Lilian who had brought me up to give too much importance to careers and causes and things of the mind , simply because she had never known , herself , any of the pleasures of the body , and had , as a result , made me feel guilty now . |
| 22 | We only have so much money . ’ |
| 23 | We already have too much consumption , particularly of things damaging to health and the environment : of sugar , confectionery , fatty foods , alcohol , tobacco , motoring , noisy entertainment , pornography , prostitution , and the toys and knick-knacks produced by polluting industries . |
| 24 | Er it 's not due to my expertise at all , it 's just mainly due to the fact we do n't go to shows these days we 've always in the good old days when we used to go to shows we spent probably a hundred and thirty to two hundred pounds a year so we never had very much money as we do n't go to these shows and spend this money it is it is a it is accumulating each year . |
| 25 | She says it is coming on slowly — it 's a long-term job … an awful lot of work … we never envisaged how much time we 'd spend weeding the gravel and general tidying up all the time . |
| 26 | Er they perhaps spent too much money that way , but to be fair , the Railway was the biggest Well the Railway er on amalgamation in nineteen twenty three , was the biggest company , and biggest employer in this country . |
| 27 | My aunt and my mother were particularly fond of him , and when he had a stomach upset they fussed over him all the time , preparing special bland food for him , making him swallow Milk of Magnesia and advising him not to drink too much Christmas sherry . |
| 28 | the main point that I made to him was that after such a superb beginning where , where they actually state how much rubbish we produce , there 's absolutely no mention even though there 's space at the bottom there 's no mention of recycling at all . |
| 29 | I told her she could have my one cos it only had that much ink in it . |
| 30 | Is my right hon. Friend aware that one of the most important subjects on which he obviously made so much progress with President Yeltsin was that of non-proliferation ? |