Example sentences of "[adv] much [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Does the Turkish occupation , or anything that has happened since , explain why Greeks so much prefer to earn their living in the little , man-to-man operations of the service sector ? |
| 2 | But so much seemed to have changed … and Joe would make a much better ally than an enemy , if only he could accept the situation as it stood . |
| 3 | ‘ I do so much want to congratulate you and your parish on the televised celebration of your Mass for the Feast of Christ the King yesterday . |
| 4 | Rory had always thought of Hamish as a sort of ponderously eccentric fool , and Ken a kind of failure because he had so much wanted to travel , and instead had settled down with Mary , stayed in the same wee corner of the world as he 'd been born and raised in , and not only raised his own children , but chosen to teach others ' , too . |
| 5 | But they so much want to help themselves . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I so much want to try again . |
| 7 | The adaptation of linguistic terms like mood and of rhetorical terms like ellipsis is not so much designed to construct rigid parallels either with language or with rhetoric , but rather is itself a rhetorical device for freeing narrative from any referential interpretation . |
| 8 | Not now , not when there was so much left to discover . |
| 9 | I 've always much preferred to sell it to friends . |
| 10 | There is still much work to do at Kozloduy before the world can relax , and a long term commitment is required . |
| 11 | Indeed , my lord , it is plain that the people are as much determined to reject the posterity of our late king that , if Your Grace will not accept the crown , they must turn their eyes on some other person ’ . ' |
| 12 | So long as the boy was alive and had a chance of survival he was as much entitled to retain that chance as the others ; whereas in our problem it may be that the men who are cut away have no chance of survival at all . |
| 13 | But if it decides a question remitted to it for decision without committing any of these errors it is as much entitled to decide that question wrongly as it is to decide it rightly . |
| 14 | There was n't even much attempt to make it look like a mugging ; he still had his wallet . |
| 15 | Only a few of her friends had been active in the Resistance , but it was clear that neither they nor anyone else much wanted to talk about the choices they had all had to make . |
| 16 | Outwardly much appeared to remain the same . |
| 17 | She was drawn unquestionably to the appearance of things , though she was aware that she had as yet much ground to cover , and that she had followed many a false trail ; she remembered with particular regret the quantities of eyeshadow which she had once thought desirable , and the pendant earrings of the same epoch . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'd too much pride to do anything else . |
| 19 | ‘ I hope you 're not in too much hurry to get home , ’ said Mrs Wright . |
| 20 | In the same way when you are elderly and live alone , it may seem like too much bother to cook just for yourself . |
| 21 | Families may have to share lavatories with other families or it may be inconveniently placed and so parents find that it is too much bother to take children to the lavatory and continue to let them soil . |
| 22 | Too much bother to fetch a raincoat . |
| 23 | The effect upon the family of extra-familial sexual activity on the part of a parent are too widely known and have been too much discussed to need much elaboration here . |
| 24 | I think there 's too much attached to age . |
| 25 | Stephen never much cared to think about sex . |
| 26 | The travelling , the exigencies of the business , the constant promotional activity , prolonged absences , his own mercurial nature , made life difficult for Susy if she stayed at home and not much better if she accompanied James on the circuit , something she never much liked to do . |
| 27 | We actually much prefer to get on with what we 're there to do , and to , to offer services , to find , to find ways of supporting vulnerable people . |
| 28 | In a Commons statement , Mr Clarke said : ‘ We would very much prefer to see a full accident and emergency service provided by trained ambulancemen , but that is impossible while the unions continue to insist on the 14 conditions which they have imposed . |
| 29 | Fenella , who had found Tara a place of breathtaking beauty and who would have very much liked to explore it , saw how it gleamed gently against the night and seemed to have some inner radiance of its own . |
| 30 | Lieutenant Justin Freeland , 25 , hit in the arm by shrapnel , said : ‘ I would very much liked to have returned fire but we could not pinpoint the enemy . ’ |