Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [verb] much " in BNC.
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1 | I rarely find much satisfaction in debating harder abstractions or metaphysical teasers with him . |
2 | I personally have much to be grateful for to those linguists who have gone on ahead and erected signposts , and I hope the examples I have used today illustrate my conviction that , notwithstanding its theoretical manoeuverings and terminological idiosyncrasies , an awareness of the questions and findings of linguistic research can help turn our language study into what it should be , a voyage of discovery . |
3 | Not that I ever knew much about bathwater . |
4 | I always find much of interest in each issue as it reaches me and if I do criticise from time to time , this is meant to be constructive and helpful . |
5 | The average Westerner uses over 260 lbs of paper every year , for example — and as a copious reader and writer , I probably use much more . |
6 | I found that I gained a lot of strength from all this regular correspondence with people and , four years on , I now feel much more myself again , although of course I still miss my husband tremendously . |
7 | I never take much notice of how I leave things , so I could be wrong . |
8 | So doing the lectures not only benefits the children , it also makes me valuable contacts , as well as building up my confidence ; I never had much of that until I started training Dawn . |
9 | And I mean there are lots of things now er which er how can I say I never had much interest before erm never thought th that they when you 've seen the help in hand they 've dished out erm , S D P , the erm oh the Council of Churches which you know never There are all sorts of erm I tell you another people and erm I sha the Gay and Lesbian Society you know , people take them er lightly but er it makes you sit up and and think now . |
10 | ‘ I never had much time for him when he was young , but I never guessed he 'd do anything as rotten as this ! ’ |
11 | I think he lived out Romford way , but I never had much to do with him . |
12 | I was born wi I never had much hair . |
13 | I never thought much of A A Milne . |
14 | You know I never thought much of religion ? |
15 | ‘ I never thought much of Einstein . |
16 | Well I I never thought much of George Roper . |
17 | With me being a football fan , Leeds Utd to be more specific , I never took much interest in tennis . |
18 | Look why not come down to my cottage now , and we 'll have lunch there — I never have much more than just a picnic myself — then we can go across this afternoon , and maybe take tea to have on the island ? |
19 | It 's good news for hunting , although I never gave much for Mr Kinnock 's observations in the first place . ’ |
20 | I certainly felt much more at ease moving around this institution by myself than I did when visiting some English prisons and institutions . |
21 | Helen admitted that she rarely wears much make-up in the evening , apart from a little gold eyeshadow , blusher and lipstick . |
22 | Ironically she rarely used much make-up herself , but right now she could have done with a cover-up stick to hide the dark shadows beneath her eyes and some blusher to conceal at least a little of her pallor . |
23 | Even if you personally have much more of a weight problem than this dieter , do not try to speed up change too much . |
24 | But of course she always has much more to say . ) |
25 | ‘ I did n't think you ever thought much of revolution , ’ I tell him , sipping my whisky . |
26 | Perhaps , but Sibylle — who admits that she positively enjoyed much of her time in the Hitler Youth — believes that the ordinary man and woman in the street was n't by inclination a resistance fighter . |
27 | She also exercised much informal influence at court and procured favours for her husband William of Windsor , though when she was accused of corruption in 1376 the king declared that he did not even know she was married , let alone that Windsor was her husband . |
28 | Indeed , this debt must be recognized : while Leapor disagrees with much of ‘ Epistle to a Lady ’ , she also accepts much . |
29 | The sad part about the whole sorry affair is that you appear to have been badly let down by those who by rights ought to feel indebted to you , but with the Sun in Aries and that part of your solar chart related to affairs of the heart you are bound to win some kind of moral victory , and even if you do decide to make a settlement this month you should still feel you really have much to celebrate . |
30 | Meaning if you hang on hoping for something to turn up , you invariably lose much more . |