Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] many [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately these courses failed to attract many students . |
| 2 | My training as an historian would allow me to save what could be saved and is why I got to work many years ago . |
| 3 | Through their attack upon the social revolution , their politicization of the armed forces , their intolerance of opposition , and , most of all , their extensive use of brutal secret police methods via the SIM ( Military Investigation Service ) , they helped to convince many inhabitants of the Republican zone that fascist oppression could be little worse than that under which they were already living . |
| 4 | WITH over 100 others from various parts of Britain , I planned to visit many sites of historical interest and biblical fame . |
| 5 | It was a song she 'd heard many times in the past , one that had stayed in the popular charts for months . |
| 6 | Is there a message for me from a garage ? ’ she changed her mind to rephrase it pleasantly to the man whom she 'd seen many times before and who , from his broad welcoming smile , she knew had remembered her . |
| 7 | He 'd seen many changes in the penal system as a whole and Whitely in particular during his days as Governor at the prison . |
| 8 | Looping the loop at a Manchester airshow as he 'd done many times before in the vintage Spitfire … pilot David Moore from Horsley near Stroud misjudged the manoeuvere . |
| 9 | Not that they 'd had many takers , no more than fifty , mostly scum from prison camps attracted by the offer of good food , women and money . |
| 10 | And the fact of having , and also of course of realising that he is having , the same experience as he , and the same sensation , as he 'd experienced many years before , this sensation releases a whole set of associated feelings . |
| 11 | We seemed to send many searchers away happy as well as laden . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . |
| 13 | However , before she 'd gone many yards she recollected herself and turned to the bystanders . |
| 14 | Poor old Finland they never seemed to get many points did they ? |
| 15 | They seemed to have many roles , in reproduction , in blood vessels , in certain enzyme systems , and in the activity of nerves . |
| 16 | She wondered if he 'd kissed many girls , just because they were pretty and expected it . |
| 17 | Most of these signed items had been dismissed as the work of mere copyists of Classical and Hellenistic creations , and even the unusual decorative and free-standing sculpture unearthed in the short-lived excavations undertaken at Aphrodisias itself in 1904-5 ( by Paul Gaudin ) and in 1937 ( by Giulio Jacopi ) failed to excite many experts . |
| 18 | I was er er there was something that I got told many years ago that I |
| 19 | When he was told of a young man who wished to become a poet , Eliot replied , " He 's getting ready for a sad life " , and Ronald Duncan said that during this period he looked " miserable and unwell " and " began to affect many signs of premature old age " . |
| 20 | 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 ’ . |
| 21 | Word had got about as to why she had disappeared on compassionate leave and she began receiving many invitations for such recreational activities as were available : film shows , dances or simply a get-together in the local inn . |
| 22 | What they decided to do many years ago was what lots of people in public positions do — use the TV to step out into the public gaze . |
| 23 | His undoubted talents never blossomed in public life , and he devoted himself to an immense rebuilding and renovation programme at Chatsworth House , Derbyshire , where he loved to spend many hours in the library . |
| 24 | ‘ I started working many years ago , I can not remember how many , certainly over 15 . |
| 25 | The head himself chose to write many parts of the self-appraisal . |
| 26 | Armed at last with a definition of obscenity , Victorian prosecutors proceeded to destroy many examples of fine literature and scientific speculation . |
| 27 | Miller frequently mentions Sherard 's contributions to Chelsea , among them Phlomis orientalis , Jerusalem sage , completely destroyed by the great frost of 1740 and P. flavescens , which managed to survive many years in a warm border . |
| 28 | The haiku poets aimed to condense many meanings into each phrase , so that the poem should speak of something that has both a particular and a general significance . |
| 29 | He was so successful that Walter was able to read , and write , and he did read many books . |
| 30 | Although an unhappy liaison with Rodin consumed much of her attention during the next several years , she did produce many drawings , among them most of her famous cat studies , and at least a dozen paintings . |