Example sentences of "[pers pn] have a [adj] many [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And I have a great many debts to repay before my affairs are sorted out . |
| 2 | ‘ If I told you that you had a good many things I am interested in ? ’ |
| 3 | Of the influence of Christian spouses on their pagan families we have a good many examples . |
| 4 | He has a great many euphorbias : E. characias with its giant yellow bottle-brush heads and brown bracts is allowed to lounge about in large clumps in corners ; E. palustris , a smaller yellow one , came originally from the Chelsea Physic Garden . |
| 5 | For an elderly man he has a great many demands on his time . |
| 6 | He had a great many things to do before he was free to go . |
| 7 | If ‘ we hear the key turn each in his prison ’ , it may be a satisfaction to find occasionally that entry rather than closure is being sought ; for while he had a great many acquaintances and , as his fame increased , hundreds who wanted to meet him if only in order to say they had done so , he lacked relationships which were simple , straightforward , and stable . |
| 8 | It was only six miles from the English Border , but in his day England was friendly , and as well as an English wife he had a great many links with the southern kingdom , in which he owned large lands and from which he had brought so many sprigs of the Norman and Flemish nobility to settle in Scotland . |
| 9 | Unlike most entertainers , he had a great many facets . ’ |
| 10 | Mr Hatton did say he had a good many irons in the fire and that sometimes he brought off a big deal . |