Example sentences of "i [vb past] [pers pn] [adv] much " in BNC.
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1 | But when I asked him how much of the land of the state of Israel might potentially have two claimants — an Arab and a Jew holding respectively a British mandate and an Israeli deed to the same property — he said he figure was accurate — and it should be remembered that over half of Israel in 1948 consisted of the Negev desert — then it suggested that Arabs owned a far greater proportion of that part of Palestine which became Israel than has previously been imagined . |
2 | I asked him how much was remaining in his tanks . |
3 | He wanted to know why , so I asked him how much he knew about me . |
4 | I asked her how much writing she had lately done , and she laughed , and said she was learning so much , so very much , and when it was all learned she should have new matter to write about and many new things to say . |
5 | When Sal stopped sobbing , I asked her how much she remembered about the accident . |
6 | Well I asked her how much you owed and she said thirty one ninety five |
7 | I designed it pretty much around the idea that it could be used in the studio and on the road . |
8 | I got Optrex in my room but I bought that cos I used it so much . |
9 | Dead before I knew it was not my anger killed her , dead before I told her how much I loved her . |
10 | I told her how much I disliked Katherine Mansfield as a personality , and she faintly rebuked me : ‘ What I feel is that we should be so grateful to her . ’ |
11 | He seemed pleased when I told him how much I appreciated such poems as ‘ Cool Tombs ’ , ‘ The Hangman ’ , ‘ Kalamazoo ’ , ‘ Chicago — Hog Butcher ’ , and his later volume ‘ Good Morning , America ’ . |
12 | I told him how much pleasure it gave me to think of him in charge of the school next year . |
13 | A few years later I told him how much I loved his way of telling stories . |
14 | ‘ I told you too much sun was bad for you . |
15 | The Grainger Park middleweight lost on a unanimous points decision to Manchester 's Eric Noi , finalist last season , and admitted afterwards : ‘ My timing was way off , but I showed him too much respect . |
16 | ‘ I showed him too much respect , ’ said Exley . |
17 | At first I could not speak because I hated him so much . |
18 | Perhaps it was for this reason that I hated them as much as I resented menstruation itself . |
19 | ‘ I hated you so much that I wrote back to him , telling him you had died of typhus fever at Lowood . |
20 | ‘ For a long time I hated you very much , ’ she said slowly . |
21 | I admired her so much . |
22 | M.J. talked a lot , and Donald said I encouraged her too much , and that I.C.B. was on the point of being more personal and interesting if I had let her — but I was rather shy of it . |
23 | ‘ Out of all the people watching she was the only one to be hit , even though I protected her as much as I could . |
24 | But I enjoyed it so much , I thought we should get something going . ’ |
25 | It was quite funny really and I enjoyed it very much . |
26 | I enjoyed it very much . |
27 | ‘ It was very pleasant , I enjoyed it very much ’ . |
28 | I enjoyed it very much , ’ she was moved to protest . |
29 | I enjoyed it very much . |
30 | Oh yes I enjoyed it very much but erm we had American visitors around and we had one a Captain and I 'm afraid we all fell for him cos he seemed such a handsome man and he 'd been a hero in the war , and he was engaged to , then to the then president of America 's daughter , so they informed us but erm I do n't know whether it was the truth , that 's what they , they said but of course some of the , some of the things had to be cast , the bodies had to be cast and they were , they were I do n't know whether you 'd have heard of the Orritor |