Example sentences of "and [verb] [prep] the many [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mary Jane Wilson founded a religious order in the island , whose members worked in the hospitals and taught in the many parish schools . |
| 2 | In the dawn , before the host came home , he would surely be presented at last with one window into his father 's spirit , and add to the many aspects of Master Harry he had borrowed from other people one at least which was his own . |
| 3 | At that time Ulthuan was rent asunder with confusion and treachery , and any messenger or scout was liable to be set upon and slain by the many factions roaming the land . |
| 4 | We fell about laughing at the jogging carrots , head butting parsnips and other wacky characters as we jumped , climbed and ran about the many levels . |
| 5 | We fell about laughing at the jogging carrots , head butting parsnips and other whacky characters as we jumped , climbed and ran about the many levels . |
| 6 | Jack heard him whistling , ‘ Mabel dear , listen here ’ under the stars and then as the shadow was absorbed and lost in the many tree shadows , the whistle too faded and there was no sound but the gentle chatter of the stream , the Kingsbrook that flowed everlastingly over its bed of thin round stones . |
| 7 | Going to a built-in wardrobe he opened it and flicked through the many articles of clothing hanging there . |