Example sentences of "[noun pl] did not [vb infin] much " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fortunately his rude manners did not cut much ice with his colleagues either . |
| 2 | One approach is to hire a sociologist to peer into the black box ( the quotation from Heusch 1981 : 423 , and p. 46 in this book about the role of the sociologist is apposite here ) , in a similar way to anthropologists who sought to tell colonial administrators how to avoid irritating the people they governed ( although , according to Feuchtwang 1973 , the administrators did not take much notice of what they had to say ) . |
| 3 | We and customs did n't know much at all till you phoned last night with the stories about the lorries and the baggage handlers at Gatwick . ’ |
| 4 | Surviving on the social margins did not allow much surplus to use as a bribe . |
| 5 | Many dealers did n't think much of their recorded lines either . |
| 6 | They tried to make the Social Work Department follow its guidelines , but some of the parents believed the social workers did n't know much about the document at all . |
| 7 | Water Gypsy 's narrow let-down tables did n't present much of a barrier to those seated at them , and her proximity to Fen was torture to her senses . |
| 8 | The State authorities did not need much convincing ; with the world believing that Shangri-La was at hand courtesy of Utah , State politicians seized on this as a once in a lifetime opportunity to revitalise Utah 's economy . |
| 9 | Some of the other holiday-makers did n't speak much English … but that 's the beauty of HCI , everyone is there to have a good time and you find you make friends even if you do n't speak the same language . |
| 10 | The Poles did not look much of a side at all when they lost 3-0 at Wembley in June and , although they have improved since under new management , there is nothing in their results to suggest that they have recovered the standard of the team that put Sir Alf Ramsey 's England out of the World Cup in 1973 . |
| 11 | Unfortunately , his teammates did not provide much support ; Tavaré managed an incredibly laborious 42 but everyone else failed . |
| 12 | Five-year-olds did not show much understanding of the deductive/empirical distinction at all , even in the deductive marking experiment . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Exhausted , the young women did not talk much as they prepared for bed . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |