Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] so much [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes he irritates me so much that I could scream at him . |
| 2 | Did you want me so much that you gave them up ? ’ |
| 3 | It has long been held to look like a cello , but the elliptical window above the door looks like a beak to me , so that with the round windows above the upper façade looks nothing so much as a chick wearing a Napoleonic hat . |
| 4 | It moved me so much that I started to weep , and to this day I 'm often physically moved by great paintings . ’ |
| 5 | Nor was Vivien Saunders , who recently won her second British Coach of the Year award , being wise after the event when she talked of how , in her teaching , she emphasises nothing so much as that a youngster should attack the hole . |
| 6 | He befuddled them so much that we just ended up paying them off . ’ |
| 7 | Having enjoyed ourselves so much and being impressed by the professionalism shown by our instructor and other divers at the centre , we decided to pursue our new hobby when we returned home . |
| 8 | At the age of 9 , he was sent to the London Institution where he excelled himself so much that when the school 's Margate branch was opened in 1875 , the headmaster , Dr. Elliott , appointed him one of the first pupil-teachers , promoting him three years later to a junior teachership . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's been such a long time , and I want you so much that I could easily make a mess of this , ’ he confessed . |
| 10 | Now , God help me , I want you so much that I ache , ’ he growled huskily . |
| 11 | Forgive me if I hurt you , but I want you so much that I do n't know if I can hold back . ’ |
| 12 | It occurred to her suddenly that she had rarely enjoyed herself so much as she was now doing , seated in Dr Neil 's kitchen , dressed like a skivvy and eating a huge meal , rather than languidly nibbling at it , as she would have done at one of Aunt Nella 's ‘ At Homes ’ . |
| 13 | We both like driving it so much that we end up using it all the time , ’ says the Stirlingshire chiropodist . |
| 14 | It changed it so much that you co committed an offence that ended you up in |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The last time I had seen ‘ Reading ’ in Cammell Laird 's yard , on a fleeting autumn visit , she had resembled nothing so much as a squashed Nestle 's milk tin . |
| 17 | ITALIAN political life has recently resembled nothing so much as a scene from Goethe 's poem The Sorcerer 's Apprentice . |
| 18 | This increasingly comes to resemble nothing so much as Sartre 's own account of History . |
| 19 | Thus he is able to treat the woman as infinitely desirous of sex , as wanting nothing so much as to satisfy his desires . |
| 20 | I 've stayed on to help but not once have you met me so much as half-way . |
| 21 | The actual experience was n't frightening me so much as what I 'd been told . |
| 22 | He did n't give me so much as a glance . |
| 23 | From the moment he modelled himself on Mussolini , he resembled nothing so much as an actor touring the provinces in a play which someone else had made a success of in London . |
| 24 | To Robyn 's eye it resembled nothing so much as a medieval painting of hell — though it was hard to say whether the workers looked more like devils or the damned . |
| 25 | Todd had n't spoken in over a minute , but there was a harshness on the line that Ellwood knew to be his breathing , and a thin , reedy , barely audible sound behind that , which resembled nothing so much as a cry that had been buried alive . |
| 26 | There was a dining-room , which he said he never used , on the north side of the house , and another room which resembled nothing so much as a second-hand bookshop ; a chaos of books — shelves of books , stacks of books , piles of magazines and newspapers , and one large and evidently newly arrived parcel that lay unopened on a desk by the window . |
| 27 | The act was performed with particular virtuosity when Mrs Crumwallis dosed them all with castor oil , an old-fashioned cure-all in which she had a fiendish trust : then the boys ' performance resembled nothing so much as an acted-out illustration for Nicholas Nickleby . |
| 28 | She closed her eyes theatrically , and resembled nothing so much as a reigning prima donna who is being pestered by her producer to act . |
| 29 | After a buffet rijstafel of gargantuan proportions-thirty dishes concluded with a chewy sweet much beloved of the malais which resembled nothing so much as toenail pie — the Colonel served Tia Maria which he and his wife thought the last word in cosmopolitan sophistication . |
| 30 | He resembled nothing so much as an old man reliving a glorious moment of his past . |