Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] many [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The photos do not include very many which have not been seen before , some of them many times ; and captions are virtually innocent of any identification or discussion of the uniforms and personal equipment illustrated , which is puzzling . |
| 2 | Barbados was British through and through , and one of his friends said of him many years later : ‘ He was as English as can be . |
| 3 | In the exercise of it many factors have to be considered besides the strength of the case . |
| 4 | and nature of Man — of convincing one 's nerves that the world is full of Misery and Heartbreak , Pain , Sickness and oppression — whereby this Chamber of Maiden-Thought becomes gradually darkened and at the same time on all sides of it many doors are set open — but all dark — all leading to dark passages . |
| 5 | The words of the right hon. Member for Islwyn ( Mr. Kinnock ) , speaking in Gwent in 1980 , have been quoted against us many times today . |
| 6 | And he dight himself full gallantly and well , and took with him many knights , both his own and of his kindred and of his friends , and he took also many new arms , and came to Valencia to the King with two hundred of his peers in arms , in festival guise ; and the King went out to meet him , and received him right well , and did him honour ; and at this were all the Counts displeased . |
| 7 | At a huge Hollywood party given in his honour in 1983 , his screen sparring partner Burt Lancaster announced , ‘ I 've worked with him many times over the span of years , and I think I know him pretty well . |
| 8 | The introduction of the remedy for each defect might , in itself , be considered a step from the pre-legal into the legal world ; since each remedy brings with it many elements that permeate law : certainly all three remedies together are enough to convert the regime of primary rules into what is indisputably a legal system … |
| 9 | [ E ] ven in this simplest form , such a rule brings with it many elements distinctive of law . |
| 10 | In a sense , then , survival into old age is a triumph , but a triumph that brings with it many problems , problems that tend to increase the longer one survives , the greater age one attains . |
| 11 | It began to re-surface when Greg Farrel walked into the cottage with the swaggering confidence of a man who had walked into it many times before . |
| 12 | This was enough to make many come , and among them they brought before me many women who pretended to be possessed ( as is their habit when they want to leave their houses to meet with their lovers ) and it was hoped that I could deal with them . |
| 13 | I 've also still got my old Gibson Melody Maker ; I put humbuckers in it many years ago and it 's got a really warm , big sound . |
| 14 | Æthelred 's confirmation of the will of Æthelric of Bocking , which is from no later than 999 , says that there was a plan to receive Swegen in Essex when he first came there with a fleet , and that Æthelred was told of Æthelric 's involvement in it many years before he died . |
| 15 | Also through him many others from Europe and countries further East were introduced to gardeners on the other side of the Atlantic . |
| 16 | People living in towns and cities can hardly be denied their quite reasonable and legitimate desire either to reside in or to visit the countryside and without them many villages would now lie abandoned and semi — derelict . |
| 17 | If the public is to get the message , it must be presented to them many times . |
| 18 | Oh , the idea has been put to me many times . |
| 19 | Nevertheless , I had an odd feeling about this fellow and it came to me many times during my short period as an Instructor . |
| 20 | ‘ Liverpool have exploited that but it first came to me many years ago in a charity match at Newcastle . |
| 21 | It was a satisfaction to me many years later , when I was a member of a Royal Commission on Tribunals of Enquiry , established to advise how secrets should be dealt with , that I was able to persuade the chairman of the Commission , Lord Salmon , and through him the whole of the Commission , to recommend that there should never again be an inquiry of the Denning type , where a single individual was authorised to investigate any piece of gossip or scandal relating to any prominent public person . |
| 22 | This was brought home to me many years ago when I dived into the River Kennet with an aqualung . |
| 23 | I 've had people try to put one over on me many times , and let me tell you , gentlemen , few people succeed . |
| 24 | In preparation for my recent trip to Cyprus I recalled the letter which Ron Swinburne of Birmingham wrote to you many months ago about the flying services available on the island at rates far below those of the UK . |
| 25 | She had said those words to him many times , reminding him of his indoctrination at the hands of Por Tanssie 's officials . |
| 26 | It had been told to him many years ago when he was a boy , shortly after he had arrived in Carewscourt . |
| 27 | ‘ But I have gone over it many times in my mind about why we lost so heavily in India and one of the main reasons for me was that we were not used to playing on turning pitches . |
| 28 | When you have listened to it many times as we had , you get to recognise the unique sound , it is absolutely unmistakable . |
| 29 | This is so ingrained and so influential , I shall have occasion to come back to it many times . |
| 30 | The mother wasp , therefore , does not merely dig a burrow , and later leave it never to return : she departs from and comes back to it many times . |