Example sentences of "[verb] so much [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There too her parents who love her so much and suffer so much when she leaves their family feel indebted to her parents-in-law . |
| 2 | Val with Matthew and William took the train to Auckland — a trip they recommended so much that I did it as well , 5 weeks later — and after staying overnight with the Hartleys they flew out on 23rd March — five and a half months after our arrival . |
| 3 | We fished for several hours without seeing so much as a fin . |
| 4 | Nothing succeeded so much as success for the organization . |
| 5 | It had got rid of this , the old order and new power relations had been established and so it should n't be regarded so much as an economic failure but as a profound political and social reform , which is an important step towards the Party 's ultimate aim of communism , and going back to the beginning of my paper that how that they had always seen industrialization as a means to an end and that how that socialism and ultimately communism could only be achieved through stages and so that , although it was an economic failure , it was a sort of a social |
| 6 | In a stage like this you can loose so much and gain so little . |
| 7 | A few of the burlier men put their shoulders to the door , but it was built of ancient oak , heavily reinforced with iron and their combined weights failed so much as to cause the door to tremble on its massive hinges . |
| 8 | WE got so much that we had asked for from Norman Lamont yesterday that it might seem churlish not to give his Autumn Statement an unqualified welcome . |
| 9 | Perhaps it is not surprising , because those demands change so much and so often . |
| 10 | Unfortunately , Bergman has decided not to direct his own script , but has instead put it in the hands of the Danish director Bille August , who made Pelle the Conquerer , which won last year 's Palme d'Or at Cannes and which Bergman is rumoured to like so much that he has already seen it six times . |
| 11 | In England this system has not been developed so much as in other countries . |
| 12 | Parallel computing has matured so much that users and manufacturers are beginning to discuss standardisation . |
| 13 | It does not arise so much when the doubt lies between ( a ) consent and ( b ) no decision . |
| 14 | Pins and needles can even hurt so much that we would almost prefer to let the leg sleep on . |
| 15 | And if that word , if that tiny little word did n't really mean anything , why did it hurt so much that he had n't used it ? |
| 16 | It did n't hurt so much as it did with my Dad passing away . |
| 17 | At the time it had seemed that they shared so much that they must have some mystic chain binding them together . |
| 18 | Why did all the grown-ups giggle so much when Richard ( the younger of the two boys ) and I went to the fancy dress party as Adam and Eve ? |
| 19 | Talking about him with the others , I did find out that several other people had had the same experience with him as me ; that his lovemaking was done in silence , that he never said a word ( in fact with me he hardly looked me in the eye either , just stared at his own hands as he moved them over my body , not stroking so much as seizing and kneading me , holding me down too ) ; but then later in the night you would wake to hear him talking to himself , lying there fast asleep ( O always asked the men he fucked to stay with him all night long , always ) , fast asleep and talking out loud in the night , talking in a fast , furious , hushed , hollow voice . |
| 20 | You may not want to get up and run a race immediately after eating but you should not eat so much that you find it difficult to climb a flight of stairs . |
| 21 | Those sessions nearly wrecked my hearing for life , but they made me laugh so much and took up so much of my off-duty that , as time went by , sometimes , just sometimes , I was able to laugh at my one-time passion for Bill . |
| 22 | Emmie thought she had never heard people laugh so much or sound so happy . |
| 23 | I entreat you both That , being of so young days brought up with him And sith so neighboured to his youth and haviour That you vouchsafe your rest here in our court Some little time , so by your companies To draw him on to pleasures , and to gather So much as from occasion you may glean , Whether aught to us unknown afflicts him thus , That opened lies within our remedy . |
| 24 | But A Rapid Course is not intended so much as an elementary textbook in economics as ‘ a graded series of readings and exercises designed to prepare a student studying economics in the English language . ’ |
| 25 | He was coughing so much that he made himself sick . |
| 26 | I could do it , yeah , cos like my first night I did n't realise I was coughing so much but erm , her mum heard me , she said in the morning but |
| 27 | I was not angry or upset so much as concerned by the lads going so far in the wrong direction . |
| 28 | Rather I cite it here as a historical antecedent whose very strangeness alerts us to several facts relevant to what follows : first , and most obviously , that sexual difference is not a biological given so much as a complex ideological history ; second , that current theories of sexual difference are of relatively recent origin , and quite probably still haunted by older views , including this one ; third , it suggests that ‘ before ’ sexual difference the woman was once ( and may still be ) feared in a way in which the homosexual now is — feared , that is , not so much , or only , because of a radical otherness , as because of an interior resemblance presupposing a certain proximity ; the woman then , as the homosexual in modern psychoanalytic discourse , is marked in terms of lesser or retarded development . |
| 29 | Melanie had never been given so much as a sixpence for herself all the time she had been at the shop . |
| 30 | If the brightness backward mask follows soon enough after the target and is bright enough , it will reduce contrast in the target display so much that the target contours will not be discriminable from their background , and so the target will not be identifiable . |