Example sentences of "he [vb past] [adv] much " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He lived so much within his own head that the times at which he ate and slept were entirely arbitrary . |
| 4 | He also availed himself of some relationship to Monck , but he presumed too much on his use of the name of Henry Bennet , Earl of Arlington [ q.v. ] , to cover his own corrupt financial transactions and was committed to the Fleet prison , from which he was released after pleading ‘ nine small lamenting children ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ He did , once , but he threw them out of his house ; he thought he wasted too much time telling his two youngest sons bed-time stories . ’ |
| 6 | You had different , different companies do the , do the job so you used to get say I mean th you get a receiver for that cargo , well it , perhaps he got so much for receiving that cargo , then that was his job then to allocate it to different people but he , cos that was another job for him which you do n't do now . |
| 7 | Sometimes he got as much as what would now be £1.50 to go home with . |
| 8 | When he got too much praise in training , Probyn said : ‘ I knew they were going to try someone else . ’ |
| 9 | That evening , in the hall , Mariot entertained them with songs , accompanied by the harp , to their enjoyment ; although Ramsay qualified his rapture by some regret that , there being insufficient room in their ingle-neuk for playing the harp , she had to perform outside it , and he was deprived of the nearness which he found so much to his taste . |
| 10 | Typically , he drew as much from the personality of each bird as from the relative characteristics of a particular species . |
| 11 | Penguin 's chairman Trevor Glover , while unconcerned about the poor American turnout , said he doubted that much real business was done at the fair . |
| 12 | Well he 's he he said he doubted he said he doubted very much if it was that . |
| 13 | Very sad that he should no longer be a member of the Government , because he contributed so much to it . |
| 14 | Dysart Engineering was one of the success stories of West Midlands industry after the Depression and , as Gordon Dysart 's only son , young Alan was a dozen rungs above the likes of you and me on the ladder of life before he 'd so much as lost his milk teeth . |
| 15 | But atop the blue tower blocks of big Waimea , he attracted as much attention as the Pope on the balcony of St Peter 's . |
| 16 | He ate as much as usual , but gesticulated more . |
| 17 | And he ate so much Tesco 's must have thought we kept a stegosaurus at home . |
| 18 | The young Lugard , born in the year after the Mutiny , was brought up , like Henry Lawrence whom he came so much to resemble , in an atmosphere which combined sincere evangelical piety with unquestioning respect for the achievements of the British army and an habitual acceptance of the necessity of command . |
| 19 | Even when he could not do it properly he loved it , and very soon he pleased as much as he was pleased . |
| 20 | But in private he affected too much modesty , and before 1922 had been junior to too many of them . |
| 21 | But some irresistible compulsion drove him on to hazard again the life he relished so much , and to put at risk my happiness as well . |
| 22 | He imbibed too much , too often and too frequently and , when in his cups , was included to brag and boast . |
| 23 | Thank you for looking after on those really black days when even he seemed too much to cope with . |
| 24 | The man was not as tall as he had been in the photograph , he stooped too much , but he was still a few inches taller than his wife . |
| 25 | To bring him up to the required standard he had to go to a boarding preparatory school , which he loathed so much he escaped over the wall and hitchhiked home . |
| 26 | But he borrowed too much money from the banks . |
| 27 | My father feared my mother as much as I did and wished me to please and agree with her always , for when I did not she would complain to him of my behaviour and I suspected that when this happened his new wife would complain in her turn that he paid too much attention to us and too little to her and her own children . |
| 28 | He did say that by concentrating on types of labourers , and learning from the studies of life he admired so much in work by Gavarni , Daumier , Dore , De Groux , and Rops , he hoped one day to produce acceptable illustrations for the magazines and newspapers , and bring in a small income . |
| 29 | The reason for this was that he followed the methods of the scholastics ( medieval theologians ) whom he admired very much . |
| 30 | Davie Cooper , the Rangers and Motherwell winger once told the press he was a bad example for young players to follow : he spent too much time in the bookies . |