Example sentences of "many things [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For so many British children , growing up in an inner city area could mean missing out on so many things they need to grow up healthy and secure . |
| 2 | For many things they can go to the Hochschule für Musik . |
| 3 | He was beginning to find that he enjoyed the big offworlder 's company , and it was amazing how many things they had in common . |
| 4 | Ayala Lasso also expressed the hope that the admission of the Koreas would reduce regional tension and provide the two states with " an appropriate forum in which to consider the many things they have in common and to overcome the few remaining obstacles to their unification " . |
| 5 | Too many things they shared , too many secrets . |
| 6 | ‘ Yes , well , there are many things we have to do in this business that are distasteful . |
| 7 | But there were so many things we could do ! |
| 8 | There are so many things we ca n't control . ’ |
| 9 | As Brumfit observes , ‘ Being a good teacher is never exactly the same thing as understanding teaching ; there are many things we can do well that we can not fully understand . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ There are so many things we disagree about , ’ I said . |
| 11 | ‘ There are many things we can and will do . |
| 12 | Indeed , many things we do are attempts to shield ourselves from the effects of fear . |
| 13 | There are a great many things we have to do today , ’ he added over his shoulder . |
| 14 | I 'm sure there are many things we all dislike about other people , yet we would not dream of ostracising them . |
| 15 | ‘ There are so many things we miss just the way we talked and the things we talked about in the NorthEast . ’ |
| 16 | And you know , so often you and I , we have questions that we want to bring to the Lord , if only was here in person , if only we could sit him down in the front room , how many things we would have to ask of him ! |
| 17 | Among the many things we hear in that oracular phrase is , against the odds , a bitterly won conception of language as rescue . |
| 18 | She was the leader because she knew what she wanted to do , but he knew many things she did not , although she was not prepared to admit that to him . |
| 19 | She could n't name many things she found lovable , but knew a thrill in being on the waterfront and always felt cheered by clouds racing along in the sky . |
| 20 | She was so good , yet there were so many things she did n't do which I would have thought she would have . |
| 21 | In fact , there were so many things she did n't want him to know that a list of them would have stretched on and on . |
| 22 | By then Cameron 's mind was rousing itself from shock , there were many things he wanted to say to James , but the moment they stepped down under the massive archway of the prison they were hustled in opposite directions . |
| 23 | There were many things he would have liked to have done but he needed this man , who , with a combination of chance and logic , could reach the truths which might affect the realm . |
| 24 | In those years he was working hard on his Bovary ( though not , perhaps , as hard as he liked to maintain ) and at the end of the day , since a physical release was too complicated for him and would contain too many things he could n't entirely command , he sought an intellectual release . |
| 25 | In spite of the many things it has achieved over the last hundred years — and we have all been shaped by that — it has got itself boxed in by one issue . |
| 26 | Besides those grants taken out of context or distorted , the endowment was blamed for many things it had nothing to do with . |
| 27 | There were many things it was not possible to discuss with her mother . |
| 28 | That is what you have been doing by lying about the many things you say took place . ’ |
| 29 | There are only so many things you can sell to someone who merely requires to be kept warm and dry as they walk up a hill . |
| 30 | ‘ It 's so versatile , ’ said Henry , aloud , as he drove back down the hill , ‘ There are so many things you can do with thallium ! ’ |