Example sentences of "[vb past] not [vb infin] much " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly , judging by his appearance as he lay on the ground , I did not give much for his chances . |
| 2 | ‘ The first chapter was enough , ’ snapped Mrs Frizzell indignantly , glad that she did not have to explain that she did not give much time to reading . |
| 3 | I did not give much thought to the possibility of their innocence and in fact thought that they were both involved with Mathews in the crime . |
| 4 | He did not give much for Beales 's chances of getting in and out of the building unremarked . |
| 5 | Happily , we lived in a much more enlightened time during World War 2 , I never understood the treatment of LMF cases ; it was something I could not understand as outlined in the Air Ministry Order , which was a very harsh document and did not give much leeway in the treatment of a chap if he felt he could not do any more . |
| 6 | Concentrating on his first reason , Sophie did not give much attention to his last remark . |
| 7 | The capture of the village yesterday evening did not make much difference to our situation in and around the village . |
| 8 | Analyses of Chinese statues and coins show that they did not make much use of brass until about the sixteenth century AD . |
| 9 | A second major defect of UDG was that it did not make much difference to cities as a whole . |
| 10 | Bob went on from there , season in , season out , to the end of 1931–32 , by which time he had made 293 League appearances for Crystal Palace ( a club record at the time , but of course they did not make much of such things in those days ) and even today , almost 60 years later , there are fewer than only half a dozen Palace men who have played more times for us than that . |
| 11 | And to be quite truthful with you , this morning did not make much difference either . |
| 12 | Because I had not done much mathematics at school or at Oxford , I found general relativity very difficult at first and did not make much progress . |
| 13 | The food was excellent and I was not charged much because the cooking was done on quite a large scale — I was not a big eater so my lunch did not make much difference to the running of the place . |
| 14 | However , these did not make much difference as the largest families tended to be the poorest families who paid little in the way of direct tax . |
| 15 | I did not pay much attention to it as the time , because we had n't decided which peak we were going to attempt . |
| 16 | But they did not do much more than that . |
| 17 | She did not do much for the female stereotype , but she did do away with the idea that you can not have a woman as boss . |
| 18 | In 1887 Peach and Horne did not do much field work as the former had sciatica and the latter suffered from what was described as inflammation . |
| 19 | While writers simply reflected people 's greater knowledge of the colonies and did not do much to increase it , the churches made quite substantial efforts to keep in touch across the Atlantic . |
| 20 | In these areas Gloucester 's appointment in 1480 as the king 's lieutenant in the north did not do much more than recognize existing realities . |
| 21 | The pipes had frozen and the tiny electric fire did not do much good . |
| 22 | Increasing the cost of bricks , timber and glass did not do much to lift the housing standards of the poor . |
| 23 | In these areas Gloucester 's appointment in 1480 as the king 's lieutenant in the north did not do much more than recognize existing realities . |
| 24 | Even British participation in the new South East Asian Treaty Organization ( SEATO ) , formed in September 1954 , did not do much to reassure Washington . |
| 25 | There were Christmas trees in all the windows except Doris 's and everyone was probably at home , though most people did not do much on the Eve . |
| 26 | TWO academics , who clearly did not do much of their research in the North-East , have written a book called Bad Language . |
| 27 | The resonance of this fine building did not do much for the choir 's inaccurate diction , but made amends by enriching the gracious stone quality of the singing in Haydn 's Little Organ Mass and Faure 's Requiem . |
| 28 | The pilot did not do much to soften the trip . |
| 29 | Exhausted , the young women did not talk much as they prepared for bed . |
| 30 | But we did not create much poetry : we held each other tenderly , and he comforted me with kisses . |