Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] much [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That he might die , he did not much care , not , as he lay , and without protest , after what had already happened . |
| 2 | ‘ You must be Nicholas Breakspear , ’ he said carelessly , as though he did not much care whether I was or not . |
| 3 | From the outset he had decided that he did not much care for the tall fair youth who seemed to look down his long nose at everything . |
| 4 | Anna thought he did not much notice the country , earth , growing things ; but then he had not observed city things much , either . |
| 5 | Rufus was not squeamish , he had not been one of those medical students who become nauseous at their first sight of surgery , but , curiously enough he did not much like to think of all those odd little bones , so alien to him , so unidentifiable , being dug up and sorted out and sifted through in case there should be a human fibula among them or a vertebra . |
| 6 | He did not like children ; he did not much like anything . |
| 7 | Like some others of his generation around the Shah , he did not much like the Queen . |
| 8 | Later when he was hungry , he ate three of them in a row , washed down with bottles of beer which he said he did n't much care for . |
| 9 | Sir Alexander Cadogan , made chairman in 1952 , had never seen a BBC television programme , and the ones he had seen , in the United States , he did n't much care for . |
| 10 | Yet while he did n't much care about the outcome of Plainsong , except in a generally patriotic sense , he cared very much that it should n't fail in any way that would leave a vindictive Foreign Office with a load of blame to distribute . |
| 11 | The Earl turned to his host almost belligerently , almost , indeed , as though he did n't much care for him . |
| 12 | She knew that he did n't much care for André , but he could at least have made a better attempt at disguising it . |
| 13 | He did n't much care ; that was the crux of the matter . |
| 14 | He did n't much care for nature in the raw : it was messy and wasteful and there was too much of it . |
| 15 | He did n't much like you being a property shark , I suppose ? ’ |
| 16 | Mr Hobbs said ‘ your husband ’ as if he did n't much like Richard , and for some reason this pleased me . |
| 17 | In fact … one of them was stuffing something through the wire and bars of his cage which they should n't be doing and he did n't much like it … |
| 18 | He did n't much like the thought himself . |
| 19 | He did n't much like this . |
| 20 | He did n't much enjoy it , but enjoyment was irrelevant . |
| 21 | He did n't much approve of animal experimentation in the first place , so I 'd guess that it was forced on him by the sponsor . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Ian Wright could be in the National Basketball Association , he did so much trash talking for 45 minutes , ’ Meola said . |
| 23 | In some of these the non-assertive quality of the utterance is fairly easy to perceive nevertheless : ( 66 ) He dared as much have opposed his wife 's whims as he dare have committed high treason . |
| 24 | Perhaps it 's Green himself he does n't much like . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ He does n't much approve of what I 'm doing . ’ |
| 26 | The question arises whether a subcontract owner-driver is really an independent contractor or , in fact , because he does so much work for a particular haulier , an employee of that haulier . |