Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [verb] many " in BNC.
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| 1 | WITH over 100 others from various parts of Britain , I planned to visit many sites of historical interest and biblical fame . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , I got to know many of the leading linguists of the subsequent generation : , , , all passed through the MIT graduate school at that time . |
| 3 | My training as an historian would allow me to save what could be saved and is why I got to work many years ago . |
| 4 | I was er er there was something that I got told many years ago that I |
| 5 | ‘ Apparently after Naylor had spent hours checking around my old haunts without success , he finally got lucky when someone recalled having many times seen my car parked outside this block of flats . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I began to worry many years ago when I heard a young artist say at a Whitechapel Art Gallery discussion , ‘ I 'm in the painting business , not the explanation business ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ I started working many years ago , I can not remember how many , certainly over 15 . |
| 10 | I had picked for this exercise a place that I had visited many years before. , but to which I had never returned . |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I had seen many people in the distance . |
| 14 | I had fallen many times and could not control the wheelbarrow unless I was close enough for my legs to bang into it . |
| 15 | I had entertained many hopes for this morning . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | After two years I had discovered many things and I built a scientific machine that was better than anything in the university . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | And I had read many of Miss Hayes-Drummond 's pieces in The Times — admirably rational , objective and sincere . |
| 22 | I had read many scientific books and spent many hours in my laboratory , searching for the right mixture of chemicals to make my drug . |
| 23 | I had tried many lies and devices to avoid this mountain , including a realistic limp and stories of leg cancer . |
| 24 | Prior to this I had used many strange concoctions for the hopeful parents to swim in , even a brew made with oak leaves . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | I had had many tests . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | I had spent many years teaching the EFATO to PPL students , but this was different . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |