Example sentences of "[verb] so much [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1 Oh dear , I 've got so much to do tonight , got so much to do tonight , got ta have a bath got ta record some tapes , got ta record these tapes , got ta record some other music tapes got ta do some homework .
2 He did not seek so much to answer the questions posed from the Enlightenment onwards as to reverse them .
3 The three found so much to talk about that they did not think of tea till nearly five o'clock .
4 If she has to deal with him at all , even quite briefly , people start saying ‘ She 's always talking to that man , — who knows why she has so much to say . ’
5 Nature has so much to say . ’
6 Extensive use is made here in this chapter of his posthumously published work ( Bulmer , 1986 ) because it has so much to say of immediate and striking significance to our theme .
7 She gives out so much and has so much to teach us . ’
8 After all , our positive friend has so much to look forward to that there is no time to be indisposed .
9 It is an opportunity given to few to lead in the creation of a new Department of State , especially one which has so much to contribute to your own vision of improving the quality of life in this country .
10 On all sides the air is filled with music and a mixture of languages as young people from all over Europe get together to enjoy the pleasures of this picturesque resort that has so much to offer in such a small space — last year we counted over 15 different hostelries , none more than five minutes walk from each other !
11 It has so much to offer and it never fails to excite .
12 A well set out manual with step-by-step diagrams , even cartoon pictures , would make all the difference , because the Multiverb has so much to offer the guitarist in terms of both quantity and quality .
13 ‘ And drama has so much to offer in terms of equipping a child for life after school .
14 The fact that East Lindsey is slightly off the beaten track is the very reason it has so much to offer that is unusual and refreshing .
15 There is nothing more important than that we should stick up for the system that we have inherited down the ages , and that still has so much to offer the people of our country . "
16 I welcome the fact that the hon. Gentleman has brought to the attention of the House and of the world outside the fact that Northern Ireland has so much to offer as an area for investment , both from the rest of the United Kingdom and from beyond .
17 Here is a case where digitisation , which has so much to offer the historian , could actually lead to a deterioration in the nature of the source material available .
18 ‘ The problem with a lot of anthropologists is that they want so much to find a hominid that any scrap of bone becomes a hominid bone . ’
19 I really can not come to terms with the fact that I am … there 's lots of interesting work to do — there was in the job I did — and I want so much to identify with that rather than just sit back here and say ‘ I 'm a housewife and I 'm happy ’ … because I could n't be .
20 And also after his reconciliation with Miss Havisham , for whom he gets hurt in the process of trying to save her from the fire and also because of how he wants so much to help Herbert .
21 Yet nothing has in reality contributed so much to free the press from any control .
22 Dot knew that she had everything she used so much to long for .
23 And Gardiner , who had done so much to crack Newry earlier , nearly had another goal .
24 It is a great tribute that the Labour Party , having done so much to destroy the climate in which industry is successful , is now having to listen to what we 're saying .
25 After she and John had done so much to guard against the enemy without , the fatal wound was to come from the friend within .
26 Even Maxton could not have worked for long with the Communists whose infiltration he had done so much to resist .
27 In most countries north of the Alps wine was the luxury of the rich , even though most of the wine drunk at this time was what we should call ‘ vin ordinaire ’ ; and even communion wine ( which had done so much to foster the growth of the northern vineyards ) was drunk less and less by the laity in these centuries , until communion in one kind became the rule .
28 No man has ever done so much to popularise the kite as an educational instrument .
29 His books have done so much to popularise the sport .
30 At the same time she remains ‘ isolated from the very social structure which her courage and vitality have done so much to enliven and renew ’ ( Rose , ‘ Women in Men 's Clothing ’ , 389 — 90 ) .
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