Example sentences of "[pron] have [verb] many " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Tories ' reduction of public borrowing has been excuse me has seen many public services destroyed or disappeared forever . |
| 2 | Once they dominated the countryside , but intensive farming led to many being ripped up and the sheer cost of maintaining them has seen many fall into neglect . |
| 3 | I 'd taught many similarly wealthy girls during my lecturer days , so fortunately I did n't feel uneasy about this and just let her carry on . |
| 4 | He reminded me that I 'd predicted many , many things over the years and that so far nothing had come to anything apart from purely coincidental moves . |
| 5 | I had picked for this exercise a place that I had visited many years before. , but to which I had never returned . |
| 6 | As a journalist I had seen many countries overseas , all smaller and poorer than ourselves , being granted self-government ; and I had hoped that Scotland would not be denied even the limited self-government that was then being dished out to the Cook Islands and the Faeroe Islands and the Cameroons . ’ |
| 7 | I had seen many pictures of attacks on the city but somehow seeing that bridge destroyed , it suddenly hit me what is happening to Baghdad . |
| 8 | I had seen many people in the distance . |
| 9 | I had fallen many times and could not control the wheelbarrow unless I was close enough for my legs to bang into it . |
| 10 | I had entertained many hopes for this morning . |
| 11 | I was pleased to be able to announce that I had followed many of their therapies , but fearfully expressed my alarm and disappointment that having religiously performed my visualizations , cancer may have returned by the back door . |
| 12 | This was a vehicle with all mod cons at the rear of the bus , which I had followed many times and checked on its progress flying over the route ; oddly enough , on my last night in Mespot I was to sleep in the Imperial Airways rest fort at Rutbah Wells , I had refuelled there many times and had wondered with awe at the vast ugly route-flying Imperial aircraft — Handley Page HP42s — and even more so at the passengers who took an even greater interest in our tiny single-engined Wapiti aircraft , and furthermore asked endless questions about our aircraft and of our life in Baghdad . |
| 13 | I went through the drill that I had taught many times to my students , and with a little sideslip brought John 's creation back to earth . |
| 14 | After two years I had discovered many things and I built a scientific machine that was better than anything in the university . |
| 15 | I had met many good people before who made me feel ashamed of my own shortcomings , but in the presence of this man — we never discussed anything but literary business — I did not feel ashamed . |
| 16 | And I had read many of Miss Hayes-Drummond 's pieces in The Times — admirably rational , objective and sincere . |
| 17 | I had read many scientific books and spent many hours in my laboratory , searching for the right mixture of chemicals to make my drug . |
| 18 | I had tried many lies and devices to avoid this mountain , including a realistic limp and stories of leg cancer . |
| 19 | Prior to this I had used many strange concoctions for the hopeful parents to swim in , even a brew made with oak leaves . |
| 20 | Several years ago I wrote some pieces about the Psion Organiser , telling how I had devoted many months to trying to learn how to use this tiny alpha-numeric keyboard . |
| 21 | I had had many tests . |
| 22 | The lake grew narrow and we were at Enniskillen , where once I had spent many happy days at the Railway Hotel and Irish musical nights at the Cove Bar . |
| 23 | I had spent many years teaching the EFATO to PPL students , but this was different . |
| 24 | It read as follows : I had spent many weary hours and weary days of negotiation before arriving at the point where I withdrew from acting as an adviser to the profession because the consultants had embarked on strike action . |
| 25 | I had spent many happy hours with Frank , recording details not generally known to the public of his own and his father 's involvement with the BCR . |
| 26 | As I 've said many times before , pressure is only a condition of the mind . |
| 27 | And I do n't mean I 'm bending them , but there were some , as I 've said many times , a lot of silly people refereeing in speedway , and thank goodness now , ninety nine per cent of them are being sensible and we 're seeing some good refereeing . |
| 28 | I 've broken many the dowel or tenon or something like that ! |
| 29 | I 've asked many people I 've met who sell drugs if they take them and they say , ‘ No , no ’ . |
| 30 | I 've played many neck-through-body instruments before and sustain has generally been very good , but here it is nothing short of remarkable . |