Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] many [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked many Goans if they disliked the freakish visitors , and their verdicts were almost unanimous . |
| 2 | In the years that followed I made many flights with those ‘ intrepid bush pilots ’ and watched the development of aviation in Canada . |
| 3 | I made many water colour drawings and my Masters and fellow students were interesting . |
| 4 | There I made many friends . |
| 5 | I made many friends among them . |
| 6 | Of course , I made many mistakes in my new life as King . |
| 7 | I made many speeches during the passage of that legislation . |
| 8 | I realised many years ago that I was not a studio painter . |
| 9 | I tried many times , but I could not do it . |
| 10 | I tried many ways of earning a few extra bob . |
| 11 | I tried many ways of joining the cords , but found that the best is to use a latch tool and catch a loop at the back of one cord and pull through a loop from the other cord . |
| 12 | And I found many details that I knew to be true . |
| 13 | I used many things to make them cane and dowling and metal coathangers and aluminium tent-poles , and paper and plastic sheeting and dustbin bags and sheets and string and nylon rope and twine and all sorts of little straps and buckles and bits of cord and elastic bands and strips of wire and pins and screws and nails and pieces cannibalised from model yachts and various toys . |
| 14 | As a driving instructor I encountered many people who thought that there was something wrong with the car because the wheel would not move easily . |
| 15 | This was the experience of the chaplain from my old school , a man from whom I learnt many secrets of the natural world on hiking trips through the mountains and lakes , sea shores and high cliffs of the English Lake District . |
| 16 | When I was in prison I learnt many things about cheques and cards . |
| 17 | And I would dare those of you who would look up the newspaper clippings of that occasion and challenge that view , because you would find a much different reading in those newspaper clips than what I learnt many years later , trudging round the island , Personally I thought that I was being particularly clever bombing a seaplane that was taking off , It was only when I was serving on Sylt in the fifties that I learned that this was in fact a tug ( or you might call it a barge , a sea-going barge ) on the end of 100 metres of line , that was being towed . |
| 18 | I buried many children from the village that year . |
| 19 | I borrowed many items including a Navy sea bag , an army bag , foul weather gear , sleeping bag , ground mat and exercise mat ( and it was comfortable ) . |
| 20 | It was a strange land to find myself in and one in which I observed many phenomena . |
| 21 | I did then go about the task Mr Farraday had set me with some dedication ; I spent many hours working on the staff plan , and at least as many hours again thinking about it as I went about other duties or as I lay awake after retiring . |
| 22 | Andrew and I spent many hours on the Windrush porch discussing almost everything under the sun from party politics to mystic transcendentalism . |
| 23 | I spent many hours working out patterns and ‘ staggering ’ rows so that they knitted correctly . |
| 24 | My colleagues and I spent many hours discussing this issue , when we first sat down to decide how we were going to approach the running of our company . |
| 25 | I spent many hours contemplating ( as we fishkeepers do ) the fact that I would like an extra pond to separate my goldfish from the Koi . |
| 26 | I spent many hours like this , in very enjoyable conversation . |
| 27 | Weeks passed , and I spent many hours studying Flint 's map and dreaming of treasure . |
| 28 | I told no one , not even Méli , about my visit to Conchis , but I spent many hours conjecturing about the mysterious third person in the house . |
| 29 | I spent many hours hidden in the bushes , silently watching one pair of bulbuls make their nest from beginning to end . |
| 30 | I spent many hours in my laboratory , searching for the right mixture of chemicals to make my drug . |