Example sentences of "had [adv] many " in BNC.
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| 1 | And in his diary he wrote , ‘ It 's lovely having him here , we 've had so many cosy talks . |
| 2 | I 've never had so many letters . |
| 3 | I 've had so many conversations with people trying to convince them of a particular point , and although I find words central to my life … ‘ |
| 4 | Other religious organizations , such as the Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa , have played important parts in providing religious legitimation for political ideologies , but few modern churches have had so many of their personnel actively involved in one particular political organization . |
| 5 | ‘ He 's had so many vets on the floor , ’ says Penny . |
| 6 | ‘ The reason we have had so many problems of late is that the fizz has gone out of the market , ’ Abrahams says . |
| 7 | Why have you had so many jobs in the last few years ? |
| 8 | I 've never really thought about it , though , because I 've always had so many other things to do . |
| 9 | The last time Willie had had so many children at the cottage he had been sick . |
| 10 | He said : ‘ I have had so many disappointments , so many setbacks , that I have stopped setting myself targets . |
| 11 | In the country it was the custom for the estate workers or tenants to act as both coffin- and pall-bearers , this was a necessity as the local builder often doubled up as undertaker and would not have had so many men at his command as the full-time town undertaker . |
| 12 | This made me feel in later life that I was very unattractive , because I had had so many negative thoughts about my appearance earlier in my life . |
| 13 | Band members have had so many bust-ups over Cobain 's wife Courtney Love 's role in the group , they are now barely speaking . |
| 14 | I 'm not really aware of any other rock band that have had so many rumours written about them . |
| 15 | That is why we have had so many research studies in this area , and why we have such a wide variety of interesting cases of both successful and less successful projects which are extremely valuable starting points for analysis . |
| 16 | But that was in 1909 and she has had so many successors that the device now sticks out like a sore thumb and must be used only with the greatest care and deftness of touch . |
| 17 | I have never had so many hard , suspicious looks in my lift . |
| 18 | What kind of community has it been , having lived here having had so many years in which you 've actually had I mean ei either lived here for forty years plus erm from many other years you 've actually been working here in addi in addition . |
| 19 | Jessie Stephen 's mother wished she had not had so many children and did not desire to have more . |
| 20 | Before Rachel was born I bought about six stretchsuits , and I 've just been given 12 more but I have n't had to spend much on her clothes yet because I 've had so many presents . |
| 21 | She complains cheerfully as we enter saying , ‘ Jaz I 've never had so many people kissin' me in all me life , strangers and all , you 'd tink I was in Italy or England or America , God forbid ! ’ |
| 22 | The condemnation of the figures that the hon. Gentleman has read out is that in those boroughs we need never have had so many liability orders or so many people taken to the courts or threatened with prison if they had not been misled by Labour Members of Parliament and councillors into running up enormous debts . |
| 23 | Throughout the week you come upon games which you see as vital and by the end of the week you have had so many vital games that you have forgotten some of them but one which definitely stood out was the fourball between Howard Clark and Mark James and Curtis Strange and Payne Stewart . |
| 24 | I mean er they 've had so many problems injury wise I doubt whether they 've played the same tw the same team twice at any stage this season and er on the day with the players they 've got available they 're going to have a a major say in this league this season . |
| 25 | The research findings will totally update the previous Corpus of Knowledge research which has had so many applications both for the industry nad educators since it was first produced in the late 1970s . |
| 26 | We 've seldom had so many clues , have we ? |
| 27 | ‘ I can not believe it , I have already had so many job offers as a result of taking part in . |
| 28 | But she and Matthew had had so many cold steely little tussles these last few weeks over so many small things — like the panelling in the hall and cutting some trees down at the side of the house which she said darkened the drawing-room and which he had gone berserk about — that Sara did not feel she could be obstructive again . |
| 29 | We 've had so many wonderful times together — " |
| 30 | ‘ And you 've had so many kisses before ! ’ |