Example sentences of "[adv] much it [verb] " in BNC.

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1 To understand the rage you had to see the age , when art curses and kicks society so much it changes it , you have to realise they arrived in a perfect time-spot .
2 Maria paused , looking at him and loving him so much it hurt .
3 There had always been a feeling of pre-destination with Richard and now that they had both suffered so much it seemed stronger than ever .
4 Not much it seems so I asked manageress Janet to explain .
5 Those were the words of Emperor Franz Joseph on St. Wolfgang , which just goes to show how much it takes to get an Emperor really excited .
6 She was surprised how much it hurt .
7 What he had n't counted on was how much it hurt .
8 ‘ Yes , ’ said Bob , remembering from his childhood just how much it hurt to be punched on the nose .
9 She would not let him see how much it hurt .
10 Helen stood by the gate for a few moments , thinking , deliberately thinking about Adrian , testing how much it hurt her .
11 He did n't know , of course , how much it hurt her .
12 And she already knew how much it hurt to keep trying and trying , only to fail .
13 I think that he , who could have had as many friends as he wished , never realized how much it meant to a lonely and friendless person to have a friend , to be seen walking with him in the rose-red streets of Salamanca , to be able to go to a concert or an art museum with him , to have him opposite me at dinner in even the meanest , cheapest restaurant .
14 Ask someone else to justify how much it meant to us .
15 How much it meant to us when she brought her Waterford tumbler up onto the stage with her , settled her feathers and her sequins and then looked calmly round until there was complete silence .
16 It was a revelation to him how important this was , how much it meant .
17 ‘ That 's why I cried a bit when I scored , because I knew how much it meant to them .
18 She had never liked the arrangement that had installed her in the Ward household , but having heard the tragic story , and knowing how much it meant to the woman who had rescued her from a life of loneliness , how could she refuse ?
19 ‘ I 'm so sorry , ’ she said gently , well aware of how much it meant to her .
20 She had n't realised how much it angered her until she had begun , and by the time she came to a halt , her voice had acquired all the sting of a whiplash .
21 Please accept my sincere condolences at your family 's sad loss , I know from personal experience how much it hurts to lose one so close .
22 Because I know how much it hurts you not to have children . ’
23 You can see how much it hurts her to visualise what happened , but through stifled sobs she continues .
24 It then measures the thickness of the wall by pressing it with its mandibles and detecting how much it bends .
25 She had wanted to know how much it mattered to him because he would n't let on , and it gave her a valuable lever .
26 Too young for you even to try and explain what you were doing , how important it was and how much it took out of you .
27 Hardly a candidate for success you might think but you would be wrong to the tune of £120m because that 's how much it took at the US box-office .
28 It has not disclosed how much it thought these brands were worth .
29 ‘ It would have been a fascinating exercise to auction it on the free market and see how much it got , though ’ , said Maître Binoche .
30 He knows that Grampian regional council is bound by statute to say how much it got from the sale ; it can not simply say that it will not tell anyone .
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