Example sentences of "and many [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BELVILLE : Thou wast ever an impudent fellow and many a vile roguery have you kept from your mother — these late hours , these all-night works can not be right and to come home so sober . |
| 2 | There had been disaffection among the Welsh in the universities for more than eighteen months now , and many a wandering musician had been thrown into prison for stirring up sedition with his tribal songs , and more than one had been put to death . |
| 3 | He inspired a genuine affection in both his pupils and staff , and many a young tearaway returned to the straight and narrow as the result of his firm but compassionate influence . |
| 4 | She said many a wicked word , and many a cruel word ; she knew no virtue or goodness , she desired all wickedness ; like as the spirits tempted her to say and do , so she said and did ’ . |
| 5 | It needs little in the way of special equipment other than a portable cassette recorder and microphone , and many a pleasant hour can be spent in collecting background sounds of various kinds . |
| 6 | More often it turns out to have weaknesses of its own and many a general theory ends up as tomorrow 's ‘ special case ’ , explaining something but not everything . |
| 7 | Glover has been training for only five years , and many a famous name has yet to come within spitting distance of the race , so the achievement was remarkable . |
| 8 | ‘ There 's many a worse place , Aggie , and many a worse person to take charge of a child . |
| 9 | This was a chance not only to see some sport , but to make some extra money , and many a good profit made on a good deal on the Friday was lost on a poor horse on the Saturday . |
| 10 | But spoliation has also been inadvertent , and many a Scandinavian lake has now been sterilized by rain made acid by the exhausts of motor cars and factories , hundreds of miles away . |
| 11 | Editors like pictures and many a mediocre press release has found a place because it was accompanied by an eye-catching or interesting picture . |
| 12 | To be plain , I 'm a bit exhausted , secretly , about the intellectual advantages that are supposed ( by intellectuals ) to accrue from being physically underendowed or peculiar-looking , though it 's possible to keep up the front in public and many a gulled beloved has supposed that this joke of a frame is where my energy comes from . |
| 13 | Ties can be literally of make or break importance , and many a fine tree is scarred for life and ruined by carelessness and neglect , purely as a result of not doing this part of the job properly . |
| 14 | ‘ The finest views are from the bottom , and at some places a little above it , but few dare venture to the bottom particularly those females whose pedestrian excursions have chiefly been upon level ground ; nay the male sex are often appalled with a view of the way , and many a Bond-street gentleman , in his stable costume , would rather hazard his neck four-in-hand , than risk it by having his arms precariously supported by the twigs and branches he may find in his way to the gulph below . ’ |
| 15 | Hilarious designs have been churned out of the factories and many a massive tongue has been laughed at . |
| 16 | The bar here is a major meeting point for 18–30 's and many an early evening drink has developed into a fully blown party night of the spontaneous kind . |