Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] many " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ An informer is an informer , ’ Tim Skerritt said , repeating what he had heard so many times in the village that day . |
| 2 | I 've heard so many of you say ‘ Oh yes , I 'd like to knit that but I have n't time to punch the card or mark the mylar sheet ’ . |
| 3 | He had heard so many stories of musket balls lodging in Bibles , not of course that he really believed them , but all the same What he wanted to do now was to find some immoral passages with which to confront the Padre , thereby proving to him that this book could not possibly be the word of God ( unadulterated , anyway ) . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've heard so many stories about him and all the good he did , and my dad was delighted when he found I was working with Sarah because she was his granddaughter . ’ |
| 5 | Never in her life had the penguin heard so many words . |
| 6 | I say that with some feeling because , in the three years , that I have been doing this job I have not heard so many well-qualified solicitors and barristers , people from the legal community and inquests and from pressure groups say that there are areas of deep concern . |
| 7 | I frankly ca n't deal in the time allowed with what Mr said , I have never heard so many inaccuracies and misconceptions in a speech , it was the most comprehensive political suicide speech I 've heard yet in this council . |
| 8 | I find difficulty believing that they will be able to do that , simply because the detailed assessment that has been done to date , as we 've heard so many times is is incomplete . |
| 9 | Her long life had witnessed so many incredible events , but as the final twist of fortune engulfed her , she was already too decrepit , mentally and physically , to come to terms with it . |
| 10 | Within another mile they had both witnessed so many stretchers , so many bodies and so many limbs no longer attached to bodies that no one had the stomach for jokes . |
| 11 | And Seal Sands Lock , the place where she had come to be healed so many times in the past , offered her no comfort now . |
| 12 | Nonetheless , it is always useful to have some general guidelines , and in this final chapter I have gathered together many of the points that , from my personal experience , are worth bearing in mind when embarking on such a project . |
| 13 | We have received so many wonderful letters on Tailwaggers but I 'm afraid we have n't room to print them all here . |
| 14 | Just last week , he said : ‘ I have never received so many positive letters from supporters . |
| 15 | The course was n't advertised because the WSR has received so many requests from people wanting to ride on the footplate that it was able to pick out only serious enthusiasts . |
| 16 | The RSPCA has received so many calls for advice on ostrich farming that its now drawn up guidelines to ensure they 're farmed humanely . |
| 17 | We have received so many messages and letters that it is just not possible to acknowledge them individually . |
| 18 | As he was a brilliant classical scholar , it is possible that he realized that what he had discovered was in line with one of Hippocrates ' systems , formulated so many centuries before . |
| 19 | How could he have completed so many plays , as well as formulating the beer which bears his name and opening so many tea rooms ? |
| 20 | In an obituary , Seamus Heaney wrote , ‘ There was about him a delicate wildness , and he often thought that the hare , about which he had gathered so many entrancing stories , was his proper , total animal . |
| 21 | I do n't think I 've ever experienced a recording which has so intensely provoked so many of my emotions . |
| 22 | In that time I followed the course of the massive city walls which over the centuries had sustained so many assaults before falling at last to the Turkish onslaught . |
| 23 | He had been given so many things to digest , not the least that it was possible Celia might have a father still living . |
| 24 | There were also many other gorgeous flowers for this beautiful actress , who has given so many theatregoers great joy by her performances over the years . |
| 25 | The resulting search space , given so many possible combinations of phonemic labels , is obviously extremely large , and the scores were rarely indicative of the correct phoneme . |
| 26 | Never before had anyone in Europe been given so many transplants : |
| 27 | He gives us two kinds : salty recollections , verses and songs of the rank-and-file ( surely no previous volume from this august publisher has contained so many f-words and c-words ) ; and more elegant expressions of disillusion from the intelligentsia . |
| 28 | Left at the side of the rutted washboard that has claimed so many victims , it was a poignant reminder that the desert takes a dim view of those who treat it with such disdain . |
| 29 | Top-seed Jim Courier and fourth-ranked Boris Becker managed to avoid the plague which has claimed so many of their rivals , including two-time defending champion Stefan Edberg . |
| 30 | Top-seed Jim Courier and fourth-ranked Boris Becker managed to avoid the plague which has claimed so many of their rivals , including two-time defending champion Stefan Edberg . |