Example sentences of "[adv] much [verb] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were tired but unwilling to abandon themselves to sleep , so much had happened , they had come so far , left so much , found so little , were so far from what they had been . |
| 2 | Later she was to think how little she was prepared for the simple events which were to change her life completely — indeed she would have said that so much had happened to her already that any further incidents must be minor , a judgement which could not have been more faulty . |
| 3 | She knew she was being ridiculous , but so much had happened back there in that elegant house , so many unexplained emotions had swung through her mind in such a short space of time , and she felt so wound up , so confused by it all . |
| 4 | Luce tried to think back , but so much had happened . |
| 5 | Since leaving the train at eleven o'clock that morning , so much had changed in her life that Constance felt dazed . |
| 6 | but you wanted so much to have seen it |
| 7 | They 're offering a gift , you know … the fact that each one is a piece of work , so much has gone into it that it 's something very special , and I understand that it 's very nerve-wracking for them to offer it , to perform it … |
| 8 | That so much has survived , despite Lanfranc 's hostility , is due first to the tenacity of the surviving monks , and then to the encouragement given to them by Anselm . |
| 9 | ‘ Mediocrity seeks to endure by every means , ’ he said of these lions , and in a country where so much has disappeared the lions remain , unferocious , glum , like doped circus animals . |
| 10 | So much has taken place in so little time , it is hard for us to really grasp the rapid pace of development . |
| 11 | I know that it has only been a couple of weeks but my word , it does seem longer , and so much has happened to you , has n't it ? |
| 12 | ‘ I know I am only 20 , but some days I feel about 30 so much has happened to me . ’ |
| 13 | We have not made any far-reaching contingency plans for after 1997 ; indeed so much has happened in China in the last two years that has shifted the mood from gloom to optimism ; today Hong Kong is a booming economic zone and is regarded as the mediator between the Western and Chinese economies ’ . |
| 14 | So much has happened since then . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ So much has happened , these past six months . ’ |
| 16 | Since I last wrote them , so much has happened . |
| 17 | Oh my darling , I am too happy and excited to be able to write all the things I want to say to you , so much is crowding in , so much has happened in such a short while and I want to pin down some of this marvellous feeling before it all rushes by and becomes more accepted — because , Betty , I do feel that we accept each other , there is a tolerance , a straightness between us that makes it all possible . |
| 18 | She said : ‘ I still ca n't believe so much has happened . |
| 19 | ‘ After all , so much has happened to us both in the last five years , has n't it ? |
| 20 | So much has changed in the life of the farm worker , especially the nature of his work ; yet so much , as we shall see , has remained resistant to change . |
| 21 | ‘ So much has changed , Yuan . |
| 22 | So much has changed , but for many women writers that cry is eternal . |
| 23 | What I do n't quite understand is what was the legal basis on which they went ahead with this despite the objection , presumably as some of the trustees as to what was being done , I could hear we 're talking of er a deficit of one point seven billion appearing or it a surplus disappearing into a deficit , which is actually four times as much has disappeared out of Maxwell . |
| 24 | Although work on the NEW DEVELOPMENT had begun several years before , with much champagne bottle breaking and blue ribbon cutting , nothing very much had happened since . |
| 25 | Nothing very much has happened so far , but I thought I would take the opportunity to write a longish letter , knowing that I would be busy later on . |
| 26 | We do have occasions where we 're having to say the same thing er over and over again , because nothing very much has happened . |
| 27 | Er men were coming , young men were coming out of the forces and er they wanted their jobs back and er I began to wonder what was going to happen to me , if , because I was on the temporary staff and erm there was no guarantee that I 'd be able to stay erm , and then of course erm I was thinking of probably getting married and erm er the salary at that stage was n't er , was n't very much to get married on . |
| 28 | Too much had happened today for anything else really to surprise her . |
| 29 | It was difficult to believe that the party had been so recent ; too much had happened during the past thirty-six hours . |
| 30 | Too much had happened in too short a time . |