Example sentences of "[vb past] me [adv] much " in BNC.

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1 So when I was ushered into his consulting room , it was his welfare that concerned me as much as my own .
2 From outside it looked like a faded bell but within was a brilliant and sumptuous chamber of fiery gold adorned with most exquisite tapestry , and it moved me as much as I was moved when I saw the dome of the Blue Mosque at Isfahan , the most beautiful building I have ever seen .
3 It moved me so much that I started to weep , and to this day I 'm often physically moved by great paintings . ’
4 She helped me as much as she could , but I knew it would take a long time to reach Estella 's level .
5 The professor helped me very much , and other important scientists who were his friends helped me , too .
6 Leading woman trainer Mary Reveley said : ‘ Arthur helped me so much .
7 I dedicate this article to the memory of Eric Mosley who helped me so much in the early days of my research , to George Wyndham Parker for his encouragement , and to Jack Alcock , without whom this article would never have been possible , my only wish is that I could have met him in person .
8 This pleased me very much because I was longing to hear her play the instrument .
9 What pleased me very much was that someone said of my first photographs taken abroad that they looked like they had been taken anywhere .
10 What pleased me very much was that someone said of my first photographs taken abroad that they looked as if they could have been taken anywhere .
11 Certainly when I went there recently I was given a very good reception , which pleased me very much .
12 For you must know that I had a twin brother , as beautiful as the day , and gentle as a fawn , and wholesome as new bread and butter , whose company pleased me so much , as mine also pleased him , that we swore an oath never to marry but to live forever peacefully in the castle , and hunt and play together the livelong day .
13 These recent watercolours , larger , bolder and stronger than his earlier work , pleased me so much when first I saw them that I offered him an exhibition at Abbot Hall .
14 My Norfolk grandmother told me too much education spoilt a girl for a good wife .
15 I knew that for him The Fat Controller confirmed it — I was his Wolf Man , his Anna O. He told me as much .
16 They were new to the Colony , but my mother told me as much as she knew about them in advance .
17 This troubled me so much that when , in the morning , I found Curtis running the polisher over the hall floor , I asked him , ‘ Did you hear that in the night , Curtis ?
18 ‘ He helped and encouraged me so much . ’
19 ‘ There was a time when you almost hated me that much , ’ he said flatly .
20 ‘ He gave me so much — quite apart from sexual fulfilment , which was part of it , and a very exciting and wonderful part because he taught me so much about sex . ’
21 Thank you all so much for your prayers over that time — God was so good and taught me so much .
22 And Dr Neil and Matey — Miss Mates — taught me so much about … life … so much that is useful … and I learned how hard it is for most people to live even halfway decent lives … and now I am home again . ’
23 ‘ They thanked me very much and said how pleased they were to be so well looked after , then they kicked us in the appropriate part of the anatomy . ’
24 Mind you I did n't say that I , I , I , I was faithful to that one , but I could n't leave it because she needed me so much .
25 It interested me so much that I 've lost , or won , if you like , the whole day of reading it at the busiest period with the printers I know , waiting for copy !
26 I knew that I was fearful of describing the girls I 'd met , because I did n't want to fall into the same traps and judgements we had been talking about ; on the other hand , I was not being totally honest in leaving out their descriptions , because in fact how they looked interested me very much .
27 Summerhill — which , by the universal testimony of its ( largely American ) pupils , ‘ sucks ’ — seemed to be turning out children who were not merely unbalanced but pig-ignorant ; and that was what shocked me so much .
28 ‘ You said you loved me too much — and then stopped . ’
29 " I thought he loved me as much as I loved him . "
30 It hurt me as much as anyone .
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