Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh adv] much [pers pn] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes I wonder that she did n't collapse under the sheer weight of how much we needed her , of how unreasonably we all admired and needed her . |
| 2 | I think of what each group produced , not in terms of how far from a conclusion they were , but in terms of how much they had achieved . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm so sorry , ’ she said gently , well aware of how much it meant to her . |
| 4 | And that night when Linnet , face to face with her own reflection in her solitary looking-glass and the stark realization of how much it had really meant to her , had been unable to sleep Tristan had walked with her for hours in the manor garden , Gemma watching them from her bedroom window as they paced beneath the chestnut trees , engrossed , almost entwined , like turning to like , intent wholly and exclusively upon one another . |
| 5 | If I asked for money from my husband he would talk of all the expenses , of how much it cost the family to keep me . |
| 6 | The hon. Member for Sheffield , Brightside ( Mr. Blunkett ) raised the question of how much it cost to collect a tonne of rubbish in one place as opposed to another . |
| 7 | I hope you were pleased with how much we sold . |
| 8 | I hope you were pleased with how much we sold . |
| 9 | Additionally , many single people admit that they had not realised before how much they relied on their job for companionship and sometimes , even for part of their week-end social life . |
| 10 | Many of my volunteers commented on how much they enjoyed eating so much fruit and vegetables and how much fitter they felt , so I have no doubt that it is the reduction of fat and the increase in better , healthier food that together helped produce such positive benefits . |
| 11 | Using scores derived from the Jarman underprivileged area index for this purpose seems to have face validity — the index was developed from a survey of one in 10 British general practitioners who were asked to weight social factors according to how much they thought they increased workload . |
| 12 | p.p.s have I got the figures about right for how much we payed for players — Beeney ( .35m ) , Kelly ( 0 ) , Dorigo ( 1.3 ) , Fairclough ( .6 ) , Wetherall ( .15 ) , Strach ( .3 ) , Speed ( 0 ) , Macca ( 1.3 ) , White ( 1.25 — this is the one I 'm most unsure of ) , Wallace ( 1.6 ) and Deane ( 2.9 ) ? |
| 13 | ‘ When I watched them win 2–0 at Tottenham they kept it ever so tight , so I was surprised at how much they came out and attacked . ’ |