Example sentences of "[verb] i [verb] many " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do n't think I know many married people , ’ said Sam , wrinkling her forehead , ‘ except the ones who 're too ugly to find anyone else . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Mrs Howell , I confess I have many weaknesses … ’ |
| 3 | In the years that followed I made many flights with those ‘ intrepid bush pilots ’ and watched the development of aviation in Canada . |
| 4 | A simple adaption using a machine bolt lets me mark many chamfers , on different dimensions . |
| 5 | He has never asked me to read many putts ; he 's such a good reader of greens , and he says a professional golfer should putt by feel . |
| 6 | From the point of view of problem solving , I find the cube has led me to formulate many problem-solving techniques in more generality than previously and to develop a general scheme for all problems of this sort . |
| 7 | Actually I was so anxious to have him that I would have said anything — but I did put my marriage first , I made that choice , and although it meant I had many , many years of frustration as an actress , I 'm not sorry I made that choice . |
| 8 | Smith suffered periodically from gout — in 1720 he wrote that the drawing of a sketch ‘ at this time has occasioned me to make many a wry face by reason I could neither sit nor stand to do it ’ — and in his later years he put on weight : ‘ It is unlucky that Mr. Smith is grown so unweildy , ’ commented Dr George Clarke [ q.v. ] of All Souls College , Oxford , in 1730 . |
| 9 | I ca n't say I know many women like that but I find it interesting . ’ |