Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] much " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had taken to him from the first , and he to her , perhaps , on his part , because she had given him some hot mutton broth and let him eat as much bread as he could manage , which had been half a loaf ; and then she had rigged him out in odd things . |
| 2 | I 've been at dinner with him when something someone has said made him laugh so much he 's got up from the table to give the fullest physical expression to it . |
| 3 | If he had had anything to do with the way Judi died , then she wanted him to suffer as much as possible . |
| 4 | In your partner : let him know how much he is loved and needed and do n't talk about the baby too much or he will feel shut out . |
| 5 | It was getting harder every minute she spent with him to pretend an indifference she did n't feel , but she must never let him know how much she loved him . |
| 6 | All that was left to her now was pride — pride not to let him know how much he had hurt her , pride not to let him find out how much she loved him . |
| 7 | ‘ That will teach him to drink too much and attempt the impossible . ’ |
| 8 | Or perhaps it was that he had not wanted to turn Bertha 's disappointment with her daughters into bitterness by seeing him show too much interest in his son . |
| 9 | All this he did to boys without any compulsion or correction ; nay I never heard him utter so much as a word of austerity among us . ’ |
| 10 | She would not let him see how much he had offended her . |
| 11 | This strength which enabled him to do so much for his country against the Philistine overlords was not his own . |
| 12 | Skipper David Graveney said : ‘ Brown 's problem could be the result of him doing too much bowling , and underlines the need for us to rotate our bowlers . |
| 13 | ‘ How come you let him have so much scrump ? ’ |
| 14 | In a way , this is just what he needed to make him realise how much he cared about me . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Do n't let him drink too much , ’ she whispered . |
| 16 | They made him drink too much . |
| 17 | Luckily , though , his adventures had already turned him into a local hero , and his bosses were only too happy to allow him to devote as much time as he wanted to his art . |
| 18 | It amused him to think how much Maggie and Eileen Arbuthnot had in common , with their rooted prejudices . |
| 19 | Sometimes she had the oddest feeling that she would have been able to confide in Paul , to pour out to him the whole bloody silly story without causing him to bat so much as an eyelid . |
| 20 | I had never heard him talk so much . |
| 21 | Leith had almost finished her second course when , quite happy to let Travis talk away , she suddenly wondered , as he began to get repetitive , if she was indeed helping him by letting him talk so much on the same theme . |
| 22 | FINANCIER George Soros 's £35 million donation to Bosnian aid agencies was generous but surely something should be done about the crazy money markets that allowed him to make so much money so quickly . |
| 23 | His wrong-headedness resided in his failure to recognize that the attitudes and expenditures of which he made so much fun were merely symbols of achievement , the kind of achievement which has in fact given rise to every civilization and marked stages in the development of each one . |
| 24 | Only once , late in life when he made as much of an excuse as he would ever make for his anti-Semitism , did Pound ever again enter the plea for himself that he suffered from the cultural anaemia of growing up in a suburb of an Eastern seaboard city . |
| 25 | He lived so much within his own head that the times at which he ate and slept were entirely arbitrary . |
| 26 | It 's hard now to see how The Shamen will keep the club vibe going in the stadiums they will undoubtedly end up playing , how Colin will avoid the rock postures he hates so much . |
| 27 | In his interviews , he plays too much off the back foot , letting the Dimblebys and Waldens bully him . |
| 28 | When he got back to Istanbul and changed one of the notes he realised how much he had been given . |
| 29 | When he got back to Istanbul and changed one of the notes he realised how much he had been given . |
| 30 | Looking back at the stormy relationship of a few years ago , he realised how much she had mellowed . |