Example sentences of "so many of [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So many small rivalries existed between different cliques in the camp and so many of them seemed synthetic that it looked sometimes as if antagonism was essential to human beings as a form of self-expression . |
| 2 | ‘ I think hairdressers have got a bad reputation as so many of them try to dominate the client . |
| 3 | The fact that so many of them played together for the Lions will be an important help . ’ |
| 4 | One that reflected his belief in full-blooded socialism , a belief he was sure so many of them shared . |
| 5 | " The sad thing is so many of them thought every white person is a Christian and of course they 're not , and a lot of them became disillusioned and wide open to communism , " said Eva . |
| 6 | Cutting the small figures to an equal depth , the sculptor found himself forced to consider their three-dimensionality , to think of them as statues ; and it is this probably rather than emulation of the terror-masks that makes so many of them turn to look at us . |
| 7 | Russian writers actually lived simultaneously in the two worlds — the ancient communalism of the peasantry , which so many of them knew from the long summers on their seignorial estates , and the world of the westernised and much-travelled intellectual . |
| 8 | Maybe you would n't get so many of them wasted before their time . ’ |
| 9 | There is an enormous literature in Russian on the Decembrists ' Siberian exile which accurately reflects the powerful impact which these ‘ first enlighteners of the Siberian people ’ had on the scientific investigation and cultural development of the region with which so many of them came to identify themselves , and where not a few chose to remain after they were eventually amnestied by Alexander H. Just as their initial , ill-fated rebellion marked the beginning of the nineteenth-century Russian revolutionary movement , so did their exile beyond the Urals open a new phase in the history of political exile in Siberia and of the on-going battle between the radical intelligentsia and the autocratic Russian state . |
| 10 | It was sad to think that they had waited so long in England for this invasion of their homeland and after a few hours ashore so many of them had been killed or wounded , the dead now lying in a temporary grave in the corner of a Normandy orchard . |
| 11 | The rise of the middle-class was not , on the whole , predicated on an aspiration to join the aristocracy , whose way of life , especially during the Regency , met with a good deal of disapprobation ; but it was determined by the resolute intention of the new men to distance themselves in every possible way from the working-class , out of which so many of them had raised themselves . |
| 12 | He too , was proud and as he looked round the crowded pews of St Christopher 's in Englefield , New Jersey , he thought of what a good turn-out it was considering that so many of them had come up from New York . |
| 13 | So many of them had married simply because they had no idea that homosexuals could have relationships . |
| 14 | The great majority of mothers were not in paid work , hardly surprisingly since so many of them had large families of young children . |
| 15 | So many of them had been trained by her and trusted her friendship and judgements . |
| 16 | Her mother had stated then that it would probably not be necessary to move again , but she had always shied off from friendships — so many of them had been lost before . |
| 17 | ‘ The younger generation now , not nearly so many of them drink or smoke . |
| 18 | It was great to hear so many risks being taken , and hugely satisfying to hear so many of them paying off in such exhilarating fashion . |
| 19 | That is why so many of them admire our system of carefully designed checks and balances which has served this nation so well . |
| 20 | But remember I 'm a writer , and there 's a lot of difference between what I did in the '70s and what so many of them did . ’ |
| 21 | and er it said that so many of them did n't smile but this |
| 22 | Indians believe that nothing much happens to bandits any more since so many of them have links with politicians , and some have even become ministers . |
| 23 | So many of them have come to look at it and gone away promising to let me know — and then , not another word . ’ |
| 24 | There 's I mean so many of them have caught on . |
| 25 | In Hungarian PEN we have an uphill struggle to try to promote those Hungarian writers who are worth promoting , but so many of them travel badly in translation . |
| 26 | Indeed , given the high claims monarchs made for themselves , and the excesses of adoration with which they were treated — and by the time of Mary Queen of Scots , this had reached a very high level indeed — we may wonder that so many of them retained any sense of balance at all . |
| 27 | Yeah I 'm , I 'm interested that that so many of you go from love to marriage as er swiftly as the horse and carriage similarly would suggest , I mean it , every one 's experience of love is , is different , every body here is , we 've been talking about love between er men and women , but there 's also love between women and women which we have n't talked about at all . |
| 28 | I 've heard so many of you say ‘ Oh yes , I 'd like to knit that but I have n't time to punch the card or mark the mylar sheet ’ . |
| 29 | So many of you enjoy Dr. D 's column ( we have taken an extract from his latest book this month , page 176 ) that we photographed him at home with his new wife , TV presenter and novelist , Christine Webber , page 8 . |
| 30 | So many of you have written in and asked for help with this game , I 've decided to print a few more hints ( thanks go to Richard Lupton , Mark Latham and Ewen Nicholson for this stuff ) . |