Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] many [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stabbed them many times after they were dead . |
| 2 | It cost me many night-hours the more because I was reading of one thing and thinking of another . ’ |
| 3 | Through a literary agent I had in New York I was able to help Sir Charles arrange the publication of that last book in America and I visited him many times , to hear him talk . |
| 4 | As Alcuin looked back from the high days of his own collaboration with Charlemagne , which also involved his many pupils who became bishops and abbots , he obviously saw a model of this relationship at the York of his younger days , when Eadbert ruled Northumbria while his brother Egbert was archbishop of York and built up the cathedral library . |
| 5 | He told me many things that were deeply fascinating . |
| 6 | and he told me many funerals used to pass |
| 7 | But they were very friendly , and sang songs and told her many stories about their lives . |
| 8 | She told her many tales of the days during the Great War when John was a baby and he and his mother had lived with her and Lawrie , as they sat together , Sally holding a skein of white wool while Anne wound it into a ball . |
| 9 | Mrs Campbell was a schoolteacher in her fifties who suffered what many teachers fear . |
| 10 | At last the government recognised what many researchers had been saying for years : that corporal punishment did not address the causes of bad behaviour , caused resentment among older pupils in particular , and was ‘ inimical to the quality of relationships between teachers and pupils upon which good behaviour is based ’ . |
| 11 | How many such stories lie hidden from us we can not tell ; but we can be sure that he reflects many of the aspirations of his day : as a merchant on land and sea , in the Baltic , the North Sea and the Mediterranean ; as a pilgrim to the shrines of England and Scotland , to Saint-Gilles , to St Peter and to Jerusalem , he accomplished what many others were doing , and far more aspired to . |
| 12 | Unfortunately , we sailed straight into a terrible storm , which drove us many miles eastward . |
| 13 | He was a man of exceptional persistence , who confronted his many setbacks with an apparently inexhaustible supply of energy and resourcefulness . |
| 14 | It showed what many journalists in Beirut had long realised : that the Palestinians regarded their cause , their country — Palestine — as infinitely more holy , more sacred than the nation in which they had been given refuge . |
| 15 | I made one many years ago and found it worked very well . |
| 16 | ‘ You taught me many things . |
| 17 | From the balcony he thanked his many friends for their support , and the Lord God for showing the jury his divine wisdom . |
| 18 | In Tanganyika , however , the Masai enjoyed what many Europeans considered to be an absurdly privileged position and envious eyes were cast on Masai District . |
| 19 | He hit me many times and my arm was red . |
| 20 | Shimmered — the wind carved its many names |
| 21 | Overall direction was provided by our strong National Council , while its Executive Committee skillfully guided its many campaigns . |
| 22 | He liked my mother ; he lost his many years ago . |
| 23 | I picked up the chant and repeated it many times . |
| 24 | Hahnemann 's opposition to the ignorance and barbarism of the medicine of his day made him many enemies in the medical profession . |
| 25 | One of them was Edward Pease , who invited Durham to his home and asked him many questions . |
| 26 | We asked him many questions , and finally Johann gave us the information we wanted . |
| 27 | Teachers felt that this text offered them many opportunities for the development of the understanding of parental roles and it was thought to be a book from which all sorts of related topic work could be derived . |
| 28 | Roman was early ; Claudia left her office on the hour , closing the door with an irrational feeling that by the next time she saw it many things , including herself , would be irrevocably changed . |
| 29 | Wordsworth has observed a primrose perched on top of a rock ; in the second stanza he remembers that he first saw it many years ago ( actually 1802 . |
| 30 | The Andalo is a well constructed boot designed for the wider British foot , which gave me many miles of trouble-free walking . |