Example sentences of "many [noun pl] i " in BNC.

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1 For many reasons I feel that hypnosis is by far the best method of inducing past-life regression :
2 I do n't know how many times I 'd done the Harwich-to-London run , but the journey seemed different that day — like a well-known view captured in a freshly painted picture .
3 I wonder how many times I was taken in by his Yankee sincerity , his B-movie honesty .
4 So many times I have heard someone tell me how they wished they had told the person now dead how much they loved them .
5 In the general run of life in a river this may be very true , but many times I have been able to take barbel and chub from the same swim simply by altering the depth at which my bait is fishing .
6 Many times I see a nameless beauty and my soul is moved , but my words can not contort themselves into a likeness of this beauty .
7 I do n't think I had ever watched the dawn break until my Waaf days — certainly I had never stayed up all night before , and however many times I had to do it in the course of my duties , it always seemed to me a highly unnatural procedure .
8 Dear Guitarist Many times I read in your magazine complaints about service in music shops .
9 She was continuously moulting as she grew her feathers , and however many times I hoovered I could never get it all .
10 There is frequent intolerance to work which has real relevance and many times I have seen images dismissed with the familiar phrase , ‘ I do n't know much about art , but I know what I like ’ .
11 I have said many times I do not wish to hire yes-men .
12 ‘ So many times I 've just wanted to pick him up and take him home .
13 So many times I 've thought : ‘ No more needles , no more tests , no more drugs . '
14 ‘ You know very well how many times I 've asked to see you , speak to you .
15 ‘ American lady , I want my prick in your mouth for two hours : never mind how many times I come . ’
16 But you ca n't imagine how many times I 've thought , ‘ If I 'd kept him , he might have lived . ’
17 And and many times I apologize for asking where various places are , because I just ca n't visualize Most of the other things from school come without being beckoned , er one thinks of er the economy , they taught about us about various things of the economy .
18 ‘ I lived in his house for three weeks , unable to go out , in such an agony of self-disgust and fear that many times I wanted to give myself up .
19 Last time er it was er free distribution , so they needed someone to , workers for that and Sikh temple offered their services and er , I think they did the job very well because mostly we get a lot of volunteers round and er , many times I went their there was quite a big queue , er five or six people were serving at the same time .
20 ‘ I could n't count how many times I 've fallen down !
21 The awful , abrupt finality of a man pitching forward , so easily , so arbitrarily terminated — the convenience of it to the killer : they were things to which I could never become habituated , however many times I saw it .
22 So many times I 'd prepared myself and others for his death .
23 I would sing to myself , perfectly content to be alone in my own dream world , imagining myself on television receiving an award for beating a world record and I would see my name and picture in the ‘ Guinness Book of Records ’ on the high bookshelf in my brother 's room where I could not reach it , and yet , through all those mornings of endless riding round the yard , I never once counted just how many times I had ridden around to see if I had beaten the previous morning 's record , so sure was my conviction of success !
24 Many times I have sat down there amongst you the , the delegates , and seen the acti activists receive this , this award .
25 But in the depth of Winter say , er from November up to after Christmas , there were very very few things you could notice and erm goodness knows how many times I fell back on he was one of the last persons to be churning with horsepower .
26 So many times I 've wanted to do this again … so many times … ’
27 Many times I 'm called up by a local doctor and asked to do what is called a DV — a domiciliary visit to assess the mental state of an individual .
28 I do not know how many times I have had such replies on social security appeals that have been turned down .
29 Many times I 've prebaited every night for two weeks or more and caught fish and I 've prebaited with similar amounts .
30 There were so many times I felt like just packing it in and going home .
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