Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] many " in BNC.

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1 I had n't , I 'd borrowed it from Duncan but I 'd heard the Hell 's Angel crack so many times before I suddenly decided to charge him for it .
2 ‘ We lose so many girls to the professional ranks it means we are constantly having to start again as regards team selection , ’ continued Mrs. Boatman .
3 I 've never known a dog eat so many wasps !
4 Now you know why you eat so many of 'em .
5 I do n't think they sell so many .
6 We might expect the throne for some generations to be occupied by a more or less yellow king ; but can any one believe that the whole island will gradually acquire a white , or even a yellow population , or that the islanders would acquire the energy , courage , ingenuity , patience , self-control , endurance , in virtue of which qualities our hero killed so many of their ancestors , and begot so many children ; these qualities , in fact , which the struggle for existence would select , if it could select anything ?
7 SCOTLAND 'S MOUNTAINS MEAN SO MANY THINGS TO DIFFERENT PEOPLE .
8 personally I , I , I felt , I mean so many people have been uncommitted and the Garrick
9 There 's I mean so many of them have caught on .
10 Well , well er well it is , because I mean so many go for the sa da damn same job do n't they ?
11 MENUS : Why do restaurants print menus in French when they make so many silly mistakes ?
12 At the other extreme , Andy Cohen , president of Beverley Hills Motoring Accessories , says that firms now make so many hot-rod components that would-be hot-rodders no longer need even the skeleton of a Studebaker to begin work .
13 It seems that they make so many now that they do n't have the same
14 It was like the course of trials which underline so many of the great myths and fairy stories and narratives .
15 I grow so many of my plants , including trees and shrubs , from seed .
16 I feel like an executioner , I knock so many ambitious heads into my basket . ’
17 I 'd , I would go through to the pool man and say right , I want so many men for the Rotterdam , I want six men for purpose .
18 We saw earlier that there is disagreement about the helpfulness or universality of the " objectives " model , and certainly many teaching situations involve so many objectives that one wonders where to stop enunciating them .
19 Although Haslam has been obliged to cut back on business travel , he and his wife still do a fair amount of travel for personal pleasure and grab as many long weekends as they can to get away from it all , making flying visits to the Mediterranean .
20 They want as many rabbits as possible for the minimum amount of effort and time commitment .
21 I want as many concise and informed references as you can find , but nothing so technical that I ca n't understand it . ’
22 ‘ We want as many Mini owners as possible to join the convoy , come for the weekend or just take part in the tour that Sunday . ’
23 And I was really pushed into dance because they always want as many men or boys as possible to be involved in the dance bits . ’
24 No you do n't have to but they want as many done as possible .
25 Well I think that they want people from they want the whole peasant base , they want represe they want as many people from the peasant base as is possible .
26 United Nations experts say as many as four million people are facing famine after a severe drought and crop failure .
27 United Nations experts say as many as four million people are facing famine after a severe drought and crop failure .
28 They say as many as twelve vehicles could have been blown over , and for the rest , its a slow journey home .
29 Health union officials say as many as a hundred and fifty jobs could be lost with the closure of the hospital which was confirmed last week after months of speculation .
30 It is crucial that we provide as many opportunities as possible for children to discuss what they are doing in the language with which they feel most comfortable .
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