Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] not [vb infin] much " in BNC.
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| 31 | Unfortunately , his teammates did not provide much support ; Tavaré managed an incredibly laborious 42 but everyone else failed . |
| 32 | Another man commented that ‘ Kings and Queens do n't make much difference when it comes to wars and so on . |
| 33 | ‘ The children do not have much mobility and it can be dangerous for them to ride in the rain . ’ |
| 34 | Five-year-olds did not show much understanding of the deductive/empirical distinction at all , even in the deductive marking experiment . |
| 35 | ‘ Hepzibah thinks looks do n't matter much but they do , you know . |
| 36 | Popham Down was a 66–1 outsider for the 1967 Grand National — a decent price for a horse who three years previously had won the Scottish equivalent at Bogside — but his backers did not enjoy much of a run for their money . |
| 37 | American students do n't know much about British history . " |
| 38 | But other than that I do n't think , women did n't do much I mean even in shops , the men were the shop assistants nearly always . |
| 39 | Exhausted , the young women did not talk much as they prepared for bed . |
| 40 | And no , the man who walked past me as I was running up that long hill at 15 miles did n't help much either . |
| 41 | Toulousians do not use much butter , but they typically follow a diet that is high in bread , vegetables , fruit , cheese and locally produced fat-laden goose liver ; and they drink plenty of red wine . |
| 42 | In fact , Marx and Engels did not have much choice among anthropologists because most of them were heirs to the philosophical tradition which went back to Locke and which glorified private property . |
| 43 | The history of attempts to control and regulate corporate crimes does not give much cause for optimism , and indeed the idea of it reduces radicals to knowing laughter . |