Example sentences of "was [adv] [adv] much " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was bad enough he himself trying to turn into an amateur psychiatrist or psychotherapist or whatever they liked to call themselves , but to have some strange layman taking an interest in his wife , or his wife 's case , was altogether too much . |
| 2 | It was altogether too much . |
| 3 | There was no doubt that Grunte was altogether too much of a bad thing , but it was not the Party Chairman 's task to get rid of him . |
| 4 | Out of the corner of his eye , because up here there was altogether too much outside to look at , Dorcas saw flashing lights on the main road , far away . |
| 5 | With a feeling of despair she knew there was altogether too much about him that attracted her , that made her want to respond . |
| 6 | But it was so very much more than a great show . |
| 7 | One did not behave like that in a public place with a young man , suitable or otherwise , and John was so very much otherwise . |
| 8 | What she did not know was that it was not so much that the work was difficult , but that there was so very much of it , and all tiring . |
| 9 | First , government was obviously very much royal government , although the King was helped in making decisions by the Council . |
| 10 | In the first place Braque had detached himself from visual appearances to a much greater extent than Cézanne , who while he was obviously very much aware ( if only instinctively ) of the purely formal or abstract side of painting , relied nevertheless , in his still lifes and landscapes , on an exhaustive study of the ‘ motif ’ as his point of departure , although it is worth mentioning that in his articles Emile Bernard had suggested that Cézanne 's vision ‘ was much more in his brain than in his eye ’ . |
| 11 | I think there was only so much fun to go round , only so much and no more available . |
| 12 | ‘ Anybody can do anything , ’ Josie said , which she knew was only so much bullshit but which she also believed was a reasonable dictum for getting a person through life . |
| 13 | There was only so much she could take , and she did not know just when her breaking-point might come . |
| 14 | During the time Nicholas was in jail , the Foreign Secretary , Douglas Hurd , always insisted there was only so much he could do to help : |
| 15 | I was suddenly very much awake as the Germans sent off another two bombs , The first had exploded some distance away , followed by the two others ; the German mortar team were dropping their bombs on the Commando positions to our rear . |
| 16 | The cool drawl in Guy 's voice was suddenly very much in evidence . |
| 17 | By this time Hardy was in his seventies , a distinguished and much honoured man of letters , who despite living quietly at Dorchester was nevertheless very much part of the contemporary literary establishment . |
| 18 | He practically ran the church , especially now that Nahum was away so much on Foundling Hospital business , and Sarah felt sorry for him . |
| 19 | She shot off on holiday , spending time with Wyatt … and feeling sorry for herself that her husband was away so much . |
| 20 | There was already too much to be assimilated , considered . |
| 21 | ‘ His back problem was already very much in evidence then , ’ recalls Hardy . |
| 22 | It was somehow too much of an effort to lean forward and turn on the cold tap and besides , he wanted the heat . |
| 23 | Did she not think that such grieving as she had showed was somehow too much for any memory to bear ? |
| 24 | The classical piece Cale always claimed was in him never emerged , mainly because the showman in him would n't let it go : ‘ there was just so much chaos going on , in my personal and creative life , that I could n't finish … |
| 25 | ‘ There was just so much pressure from so many different people . |
| 26 | There was just so much around . |
| 27 | There was just so much to be crammed into each short day . |
| 28 | Cicely Hepwood crooned , and Leith had an unwanted moment of self-disgust that these people were all so happy for Naylor , when everything was just so much sham . |
| 29 | This was the greatest test for surfers , but it was just as much of an ordeal for journalists . |
| 30 | He was just as much of a mad f—er as anyone else on the paper — he recalls sulphate-fuelled weeks spent in East Germany , for example — but he did n't take it too seriously . |