Example sentences of "many [prep] [pers pn] [verb] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While many of them had developed techniques for checking understanding when teaching ‘ traditional ’ FE students , some of which were also useful when working with bilingual students , few of them had any professional training in the part that language plays in classroom learning . |
| 2 | Many of them had sought counselling from the college chaplain . |
| 3 | Many of them had had sex with other gays , but few of them had accepted that you could make a way of life out of it . |
| 4 | Many of them had spent weeks getting there on a dangerous journey from their homes in Sarajevo . |
| 5 | Launching a sugar plantation took a great deal of capital and the planters were always short of money ; many of them had bought estates at the high land prices of the boom , and most of them felt they owed it to themselves to live in a gentlemanly way that ignored debts . |
| 6 | Many of them have to acquire language skills in order to service their clients in new market places . |
| 7 | Many of them have taken part in earlier Himalayan Kingdoms ventures , including Broad Peak , Changtse ( Everest 's northern outlier ) and Himalchuli . |
| 8 | It is clear that in the past many of them have considered loyalty to be a two-way process , a contract or covenant , and that the state could be a traitorous party as well as the people . |
| 9 | I think that would be a great assurance to the people that we employ because many of them do get increments . |
| 10 | How many of you have seen policemen wor |
| 11 | How many of you have lost weight , reached a plateau and before you know it you 're back where you started ? |
| 12 | And how many of you have smelt things and you think it turns you back either to when you were a child , maybe new bread , a certain flower , |
| 13 | Since so many of us had made love to either O or to Boy we felt that by comparing notes we knew a great deal about how they behaved when making love , and so when we saw them reappear so obviously as lovers we were pleased to see that our predictions had been correct . |
| 14 | Probably many of us have treasured letters containing gems of spiritual guidance which have come to us when the writer could not , or during times of personal need or crisis . |
| 15 | In practice many of us have become Christians and are continuing to believe for less than the best reasons and clearest motives . |
| 16 | One element of weakness in this symposium is the need many of us have to take refuge in generality , anecdote and the familiar . |
| 17 | As many of us have mixed backgrounds I would not like to say that ethnic reasons are the main reasons for tabling this motion . |
| 18 | Many , many of us have found inspiration in her teaching and have derived much pleasure from her comradeship . |
| 19 | Putting more money into the taxi part scheme , a scheme that is anything but everybody in the surrounding authorities , how many of us have had letters from the residents of Gerton or Promberton or wherever else complaining that they want to be included in this scheme . |