Example sentences of "[pron] much [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He does n't talk to me much now because I 'm afraid I 've been the one who 's been tipping him out of the church when he 's smoking . |
| 2 | And the men will think them much safer if my method is French . |
| 3 | As it happens , he paces himself much better than Corbett and other stand-up comics , and in his own sober way milks the material ruthlessly . |
| 4 | - The banks start promising to look after you much better than ever before , and to shower you with presents . |
| 5 | I start to hear everything much better than I normally do . |
| 6 | So now and this is this one much like while I was taking time off |
| 7 | He proposed to her at the offices of Faber and Faber ; after she had accepted , he explained that he would have asked her much sooner if he had known her real feelings towards him , but she had been so formal with him that he was not even sure if she liked him — which , after eight years , suggests an odd insecurity or impercipience . |
| 8 | He stated , correctly in my view , that he had quote seen her much more than anybody else unquote and confessed that when he had first treated her on the day of the accident he had quote never expected to see her again , unquote . |
| 9 | ‘ They knew him much better than I did . |
| 10 | We must now wait to discover how much Maynard relishes the captain 's job , coming to him much earlier than he can have imagined , and whether — as in the case of Morris back in 1989 — it affects his form and composure . |
| 11 | He had gone out for air while Mary reverted to her servant role , but an impulse had taken him much further than he anticipated and now that he was on the shoreline he knew that he had followed an instinct which was directing him to resolve this business with Mary . |
| 12 | I find I can do it much easier if I 've got one eye on the television . |
| 13 | I ca n't leave it much later because we 're off to Australia on Friday . |
| 14 | As long as I know that I 'm right er and say well I 'm quite willing to look at the figures that you 've been given , but these are the figures that are right but I will look at them erm and I , and I certainly would n't er confront it much more than that . |
| 15 | Yeah well you 'll not get it much less than that . |
| 16 | On the whole she was pleased with Annie 's progress on the potty , she seemed to have got the hang of it much earlier than Christopher had . |
| 17 | His ball had gone into deep rough and I noticed he was walking toward it much faster than usual and he was talking to me faster . |
| 18 | He did not ant to see us make the same mistake in Iran as it might cost us much more if we did not move now " . |
| 19 | Some memoirs , too , take us much further than official material ; those of de Gaulle are a case in point , while British official documents which in their original form remained hidden from the historian by the thirty-year rule were printed in the books of Winston Churchill and Eden , or have been unearthed in private collections by scholars able to disregard the consequences of publication . |