Example sentences of "be so much [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | Sometimes I seem to be floating above it all , and sometimes I am so much inside I can smell the boy . ’ |
2 | There had been so much else to do : such as leaving a brief note for Julie , and also contacting her office to explain the problem and that she 'd be in touch with them as soon as possible . |
3 | Often , simply because there is so much there , a developer will demolish whole chunks of good , solid buildings and then want to build anew . |
4 | ‘ This is a great mystery , ’ declares the apostle Paul , for it is so much more than two people getting together . |
5 | ‘ Why , folks do say , your honor ! as how that he is a Poet , and that he is going to put Quantock and all about here in print ; and as they be so much together , I suppose that the strange gentleman has some consarn in the business . ’ |
6 | you know , for a few days like that , I mean th it , it , I al almost shudder at the thought because there 's so much else I would , you know , prefer to do with five hundred pounds . |
7 | If it 's hot bods you 're after , why bother with Baywatch when there 's so much gnarly action right at home ? |
8 | Why in 1944 , when there was so much else to think about and to do , did those three key documents appear ? |
9 | My sisters sent me a melon , but there was so much else , that in the end it had to be given to people in the wards . ’ |
10 | But there was so much else to see that , as time flew by , it was no surprise to her that , having been thoroughly absorbed , she had forgotten entirely such necessities as eating , until Ven good-humouredly mentioned , ‘ Since I did n't wish to intrude on your pleasure to suggest a coffee-break , will you permit me , at ten past one , to suggest we have a break for lunch ? ’ |
11 | I also admired the BBC 's old " Tonight " programme , fronted by Cliff Michelmore , which was so much ahead of its time in news-magazine terms , by its imaginative use of film and the quality of its scripts . |
12 | Tonight , alone and quiet after the eventful day , the shadows seemed to hold ghosts of the past , and there was so much here to remind her that this had once been Elise 's home . |
13 | Dr Geoffrey Pasvol of the John Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford said : ‘ There was so much there [ in Allison 's paper ] that Ian had said to me in the summer . ’ |