Example sentences of "on many a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Marks of these furrows can be detected on many a gentle slope , especially when slanting sunlight casts regular shadows .
2 Board masters are guests with years of experience of Scourie fishings , and my favourite is a wonderful gentleman called Stanley Tuer ; a man of advancing years , but fleet of foot , who has exhausted me on many a long hill walk .
3 Rather too pertinent , I thought , for the place 's original dweller , who must have gone down to the Atlantic in a small boat on many a stormy night .
4 Colin Squire , perhaps best known to the yachting world as crew on many a high class yacht , pops up in a new guise as the representative of marine artist Harry Clow .
5 We should dearly have loved to have cried or been sick on many a social occasion .
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