Example sentences of "had [adv] many " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had so many daffs in her garden ; she could pick loads . |
| 2 | Speelman had to give up his queen to avoid being mated , but by that time he had so many pieces for it that he was still able to draw comfortably . |
| 3 | I had so many clothes but my mother never said no to more . |
| 4 | Said it was time he did , meaning Maurice had so many kids and … well , you can get the message . ’ |
| 5 | I had so many questions to ask you , ’ he sighed . |
| 6 | I had a chillingly clear picture of its abominable face : it had so many wrinkles and boils it looked as if it had lived for centuries . |
| 7 | He did n't come till the next day , he had so many calls , and all the same — sick children . |
| 8 | One engineering firm had so many applications for time off that it warned absentees they would be suspended for three weeks . |
| 9 | Like the woman famed in the bairns ' rhyme , ‘ who lived in a shoe , and had so many children she did not know what to do , ’ Martha in her Boat-house kept so many lodgers — the cooking of meals , making of beds , and washing of linen for such a host made her often remark , ‘ I have so much wark , I dinna know what to do first ; ’ and then she had a husband to work for . |
| 10 | After the first meeting , Shanti had so many questions to ask me . |
| 11 | No drug company would ever contemplate issuing a medicine which had so many unproven and untested facets to it . |
| 12 | Although he preferred to train dancers from the age of nine , by the time the pantomime season came he had so many to cast he had to accept adults and teach them after they had finished a day 's work . |
| 13 | He had so many appreciative friends in very high places that he probably considered himself safe . |
| 14 | He had so many irons in the fire that he was seldom there . |
| 15 | It was a good thing , as Fa said , that the house had so many wastepaper baskets . |
| 16 | At dinner we all talked about our trip and had so many laughs and fond memories . |
| 17 | Then , as she had so many , she would not miss a few , he had the thought to sail them out the window . |
| 18 | When I first set up home on my own I had so many bits of ill-assorted furniture that various friends and relatives had given me , that it was difficult to ever imagine having a beautiful home . |
| 19 | ‘ The hardest thing for me is knowing I had so many good years , so many great moments , because it means you always think it is going to be like that . |
| 20 | It took me about six months to even be able to hear what he 'd done ; I just could n't relate to it because I had so many preconceptions about what I thought it should be . |
| 21 | It explains why Stamford had so many churches , rather than the more common single church , as at Grantham and Newark . |
| 22 | I never knew we had so many relatives and friends . |
| 23 | ‘ That song had so many lyrics and different types of music in there , that I did n't think it 'd go the distance . |
| 24 | After a knockdown the fallen fighter had so many seconds to make it back to the starting stance and the less able were those who did n't ‘ come up to scratch ’ . |
| 25 | It seemed I had so many . |
| 26 | She could n't bear the rift that had come between her and the aunt who had always understood and helped her ; who had so many times stood between her and her mother as faithful friend wanting the best for them both and who was now so alienated from her . |
| 27 | He said : ‘ We played some really good football and showed some tremendous character considering we had so many young players out there . |
| 28 | ‘ I had so many people telling me that I could do it — and I did ! |
| 29 | ‘ I had so many people telling me that I could do it — and I did ! |
| 30 | But guitarist Paul Laventhol explained , prior to the gig : ‘ This is just a one-off , because we had so many people wanting us to get together for a show . |