Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [verb] many [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In these respects I had many discussions with Guevara , who himself disclosed his loss of marxist illusions . |
| 2 | As a result they suffered many casualties . |
| 3 | I mention them briefly because among management trainers they have many aficionados ; they are written about more fully elsewhere . |
| 4 | Now that the partisans were well organized in the Province of Parma they committed many acts of sabotage . |
| 5 | To those with no operational experience such as MPs , Courts of Enquiry , magistrates etc. , it can appear a sensible and foolproof system , but in practice it has many deficiencies . |
| 6 | Mill 's ‘ harm-to-others ’ principle seems simple , but in practice it has many problems . |
| 7 | A lady I knew many years ago designed knitted suits and so on at the drop of a hat . |
| 8 | But as a child she had many times been wrested ( as it felt to her ) from her known environment into some strange place , leaving her totally confused . |
| 9 | In most of the present liberal-democratic countries it required many decades of agitation and organization , and in few countries was anything like it achieved until late in the nineteenth century . |
| 10 | As a youngster he spent many hours playing cricket with his good friend John Turner and several other boys on a piece of waste ground at the top of Young Street . |
| 11 | ( 17 November 1988 ) During subsequent weeks I gave many interviews to journalists to correct their inaccurate accounts . |
| 12 | Over the years we have many times benefited form the advice and support which the CCPR gives so generously . |
| 13 | If the long and complex passage of Athenaeus 6 ( 273a–275b ) , which Felix Jacoby gives as fragment 59 , can be considered a trustworthy summary of Posidonius ' views about Roman civilization , two features emerge : ( a ) the Romans preserved for a long time their extreme simplicity of life ; ( b ) in that long period they learnt many techniques from various foreigners ( Greeks , Etruscans , Samnites and Iberians ) and their constitutional principles from the Spartans . |
| 14 | In his retirement he spent many hours on the golf courses either at Dinsdale Spa or Blackwell . |
| 15 | In retirement he visited many places in the Classical World , edited selections from Xenophon 's Hellenica , and wrote a pamphlet , The School in the Sixties to supplement Varley 's History . |
| 16 | After the lecture he answered many questions , some of them pretty informed and which included some on Jack the Ripper which our publicity had mentioned . |
| 17 | In the process he made many enemies . |
| 18 | Outside chemistry he had many interests . |
| 19 | Over the years he invented many improvements for Watt 's steam engines , including a D-shaped sliding valve which later came into common use for many types of steam engine . |
| 20 | The people of Palestine in Kuwait generally are people who just want to live and make and living and support their own erm cause , and on the contrary we have many Palestinians who helped the Kuwaitis and protected them during the invasion . |
| 21 | SIR , — In your editorial you make many observations — some acceptable and some less so . |
| 22 | Her work is an allegorisation of art as fashion ; entering the world of fine art she found many parallels with the world of fashion . |
| 23 | In China it took many years for the railway to broach the capital . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | In this respect we have many things in common with them , but with our mental erm structure , our habits of being tradesmen created the Kuwaiti community to be adventurous , to be erm well co-ordinated with each other , to have erm ambitions and to be wise in the use of their resources . |
| 26 | Kirchberg is well known locally for its band and throughout the season they stage many concerts ranging from the serene to good old thigh slapping and yodelling nights out . |
| 27 | When Brendan Mullin retired from the game he received many messages of appreciation from rugby enthusiasts . |
| 28 | In the course of his career he received many honours from medical , veterinary , and agricultural societies both at home and abroad , including an honorary fellowship of the Royal Society of Medicine . |
| 29 | On the contrary they penetrate many levels of society and enter into a wide range of transactions . |
| 30 | Sometimes , perhaps often , on that road we have many encouragements ; there come signs of God 's grace . |