Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] [verb] [prep] [adv] many " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also , a hotel room would remind her of that first night they had spent together ; what happened then had been repeated by now many times . |
| 2 | At one time so many people from the area were hanged at Newgate it had been nicknamed Jack Ketch 's Warren , and according to Paddy it had been known for as many as forty constables to march down with cutlasses to control disturbances . |
| 3 | What made it easy was that earlier charters had been produced by so many different monastic scriptoria in so many house styles that spotting the inauthentic was a task for the dedicated scholar — who in any case was more likely to be employed in propagating fraud than in hunting it out . |
| 4 | The manuscript on which Ernest Cotchin had been working for so many years was unfinished and unrevised when he died in September 1988 . |
| 5 | As they had passed by Du Cane Road , where the entrance to Wormwood Scrubs prison was , she had been reminded of how many times she had been there , visiting either her husband or one of the older boys . |
| 6 | The traditional British verve for raiding had been restored after too many years under the shadow of the World War I failures at Gallipoli . |