Example sentences of "and many [art] [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Horses , gun-dogs and books filled his day , and many a regicide glanced wrathfully at the nonchalant figure of the tall Englishman strolling unconcernedly in the highways and byways of Belgrade . |
| 2 | And many a quack has traded on the anguish of cancer sufferers and the credulity of their friends . |
| 3 | Many a promising liaison must have been nipped in the bud by Algernon being a duffer at flower arranging or breaking the significant corn stalk with a clumsy tweak ; and many a passion choked to premature death because Augusta absentmindedly pinched the petals off her posy of moss rosebuds and myrtle . |
| 4 | The future of Denwood was their sole topic of conversation , and many a pioneer built a magnificent castle in the air . |
| 5 | Many and many a time have we looked , have I alone in more recent years looked , for certain things thus revealed to us in passing . |
| 6 | In this 14 kilometre climb , we will witness wonderful feats of bravery — and many a rider abandoning in tears , simply unable to continue , even so close to the finishing line . |
| 7 | But until we study the life cycles of animals in fine detail , we can not know precisely which creatures depend upon what ; and many a creature has been wiped out not because its entire habitat has disappeared , but simply because some favoured site has been obliterated . |
| 8 | Foxes have thick pelts and many a fox has died from gangrene caused by shotgun pellets ; again a slow and agonising death . |
| 9 | This is often far from the case and many a combination has come to grief at the very last fence . |