Example sentences of "much [prep] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyday matters seemed too much for him since the murder , they knew he could not cope with the bigger issues . |
| 2 | They cost just a pound a copy to produce , so why do we pay so much for them in the shops ? |
| 3 | ‘ We 've been a team for ever , and they 'll say things like , ‘ If we 're no going to learn a lot more about this character , why do we have so much about him in the beginning ? ’ |
| 4 | In the media I mean I have n't seen much about it in the media . |
| 5 | But they have n't said too much about it in the paper . |
| 6 | He had heard so much about it from the Queen Mother — who as a child had been there every year — and from so many other people that he had felt it was a part of his education that was sorely lacking . |
| 7 | He kept up an unrelenting gentle moral pressure on his authors or collaborators , and as a commentator , like Tolkien he selflessly put much of himself into the work of others . |
| 8 | We do n't see much of them in the daytime , but at night the bedbugs crawl out from under our mats , and we listen to the cockroaches munching away merrily in the food-basket between our heads , and to the brittle scrabbling of their feet on the ceiling a couple of feet above us . |
| 9 | Anyway he lived in the old hut after the railway was taken up , we did n't see much of him in the winter but when the spring came round he would appear again . |
| 10 | Even overpraising does , at times , lead to tantrums as a child decides that your lavish praise means that you did n't expect much of him in the first place . |
| 11 | She had never met Naomi in her life , but in death she grew to love her : she had taken her into herself , had learned her likings , had read her books and tried ( although not herself musical ) to listen to her music , she had spoken much of her to the children , had insisted upon treating her as an ally , as a friend beyond the grave , had reinvented her and kept her close to them — oh , not without awareness of the dangers , of the necessary distortions and consolations , but then all life is danger , and Liz had embarked willingly upon its full tide with those three small boys , with that ambitious , importunate widower and that friendly ghost . |
| 12 | Evidence has emerged that mahogany which has been logged illegally in Brazilian Indian reserves is being exported to Western countries , much of it to the UK , which accounts for 52 per cent of Brazilian mahogany . |
| 13 | Snowing patiently , for there was much of it on the ground , many snowdrops to be restored like white souls to the heavens . |
| 14 | There has been a great deal of change in European Securities Exchanges , much of it on the lines of London 's Big Bang ( abolition of fixed commissions in Paris , for example ) , and much of it with a view to maintaining or gaining business . |
| 15 | THESE FOUR boxes of action highlights from Pickwick enable the devout to exhume the 1992 World Cup , feeling it again as if they were in attendance in Australasia once more or seeing much of it for the first time if sleep and work schedules got in the way during those 33 hectic days and nights . |
| 16 | The basis of the Tyne as a port was the export of coal , much of it through the Northumberland Dock in North Shields which exported the coal from Cramlington and other South Northumberland collieries . |
| 17 | Too much of it in the body causes anaemia , heart disease , bone disorders and fatal dementia . |
| 18 | The industrial revolution was creating a new moneyed class , much of it in the North and Midlands . |
| 19 | The four months of shooting began in October 1972 , much of it in the Abruzzi , in the mountain town of Ascoli Piceno ( well photographed by Carlo Rustichelli ) , with studio work at the De Paolis Studio in Rome . |
| 20 | ‘ I do n't think Liza thinks much of it in the winter . ’ |
| 21 | A lot has been said already in the English-speaking world about poststructuralism and politics , much of it in the accusatory mode voiced from the opposing class-based verities of ‘ tradition ’ or ‘ History ’ . |
| 22 | ‘ Too much of it in the papers , ’ he said , |
| 23 | I have spent most of the last year in what was once Yugoslavia , much of it in the beautiful and doomed Republic of Bosnia Hercegovina and it has left me scarcely able to think , far less write about anything else . |
| 24 | Coal produces 70 per cent of the country 's energy , much of it in the form of dirty power stations or domestic cooking stoves . |
| 25 | In recent months there has been a lively debate — much of it behind the scenes — into how the hospitality industry can speak more effectively to Government . |
| 26 | To them he promised to pay some £276,000 , much of it by the recklessly optimistic date of February 1338 ; from them he gained promises of military aid whose fulfilment depended largely upon the payment . |
| 27 | Quite apart from the drafting of contracts the task of the engineer involves a great deal of communication , much of it by the written word . |
| 28 | There were a few of the I-am-not-really-dead-but-just-popped-out-for-a-packet-of-fags sort of lines , which all went on a little long for Henry 's taste , and quite a number of death-as-a-viable-alternative-to-life stuff , much of it from the fathers of the early church . |
| 29 | The Columbus cast is half old-timers and half new blood , much of it from the so-called alternative comedy set . |
| 30 | THE RAFFLE for the Charlotte Starmer-Smith Medical Fun at the Royal Berkshire Hospital , Reading , raised £17,500 ( Fund total now £97,000 ) — much of it from the rugby community . |