Example sentences of "he [verb] [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 | 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 . |
| 5 | In his interviews , he plays too much off the back foot , letting the Dimblebys and Waldens bully him . |
| 6 | When he got back to Istanbul and changed one of the notes he realised how much he had been given . |
| 7 | When he got back to Istanbul and changed one of the notes he realised how much he had been given . |
| 8 | Looking back at the stormy relationship of a few years ago , he realised how much she had mellowed . |
| 9 | He realised how much he longed to wear that splendid sober regalia and take up a whip to drive a team of four horses . |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | At the same time , he realized how much poster artists had derived from the ‘ fine ’ artists of the past . |
| 12 | He also suffered from a morbid fear of castration which lingered with him throughout his life ; possessed of plenty , as he saw it , he realized how much he had to lose . |
| 13 | And now , when it was almost his , he realized how much he would miss Larksoken , its remoteness , its bleak uncompromising strength . |
| 14 | It might help if he realized how much you did love her . ’ |
| 15 | I needed to see his expression as he realized how much I meant to him . |
| 16 | Had n't he heard as much from The Man himself often enough ? |
| 17 | He drinks too much , damn fool that he is . ’ |
| 18 | Sometimes he drinks too much beer and goes to sleep in the toilet . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 20 | He asked how much the Drugs Squad knew about them . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Sometimes he got as much as what would now be £1.50 to go home with . |
| 23 | When he got too much praise in training , Probyn said : ‘ I knew they were going to try someone else . ’ |
| 24 | He thinks too much . |
| 25 | ‘ He thinks so much about our parents , Aunt Sarah . |
| 26 | How could he write such things ? she wondered dumbly ; how could he know so much about sex , so much about sin ? |
| 27 | Did he know how much he went on and on about " Nancy poets ' and namby pambies ? |
| 28 | Did he know how much she loved him ? |
| 29 | Did he know how much he had hurt her ? |
| 30 | 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 . |