Example sentences of "and many [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Boats and windsurfers cut through the ripples , children laugh in the shallows and many a head turning tan has been collected on the beaches . |
| 2 | At the beginning of his next speech , after Sirith 's defensive demurral , he has to be more specific , and perhaps more generous : ( " I will give you a mighty gift , many a pound and many a mark , warm clothing and warm shoes . " ) |
| 3 | Often the battle is lost , and many a seaside town has disappeared beneath the waves ( while others , such as the once-thriving port of Rye in Kent , have been left high and dry as the sea retreated ) . |
| 4 | And many a night I spent at The Greyhound watching Brinsley Schwarz , diligently studying Nick Lowe 's bass playing . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Once a valuable and historic site , Alghero has witnessed much upheaval and many a conflict . |
| 7 | Oh yes , yes in the , in the window yes I think and many and many a ticket I got when I first got married to my first wife I used to do my mother-in-law 's little tickets for all the various custards , and , and Eccles cakes and four for thruppence ha'penny it does n't of course I could print right you see she said , being a draughtsman I always could print right so I used to do the four for thruppence ha'penny . |
| 8 | It was one of the worst years ever for the construction industry and many a card this Christmas carried a message that 1992 was a good year to see the back of and the hope that in 1993 things may start to look brighter . |
| 9 | Menfolk lit up stubby pipes and soon the air was full of the pungent smoke of twist tobacco , I think it was probably called X X Boggy Roll , and many a yarn was spoken while they were thus enjoying their break . |
| 10 | And many a quack has traded on the anguish of cancer sufferers and the credulity of their friends . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The future of Denwood was their sole topic of conversation , and many a pioneer built a magnificent castle in the air . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Bransby Cooper says that ‘ I have sometimes suffered from the Professor 's love of cold air ; for if ever he could manage at his parties to have a window left open unperceived , he was delighted ; and many a time when I have dined with him I have said ‘ Pray , Mr Coleman , have your ventilators shut or I shall be blown out of the room ’ , at which he laughed and had the direction of the current changed by stealth so as to apply the breeze upon some other visitor less sensitive than myself' . |
| 15 | Many of the people on my courses on dying , for example , had never really come to terms with the inevitability of death in their own lives , and many a time we had to stop to allow distressed and upset people to leave the room . |
| 16 | I 've gone to bed many and many a time — and I was only sixteen — I 've gone to bed many a time and laid on the bed and fell off to sleep before I was undressed because we were on the go the whole time . |
| 17 | And many , and many a time tutor sister would rap on the desk and say , come on , wake up , we 've nearly finished . |
| 18 | That 's right and put your paddle in that and you scull you had to come down every time and many a time people 'd learn that that paddle will come out , but once you got the knack of it you could do it one hand , cos you was cutting down all the time like that 's what it was . |
| 19 | When that gone down they used to splash cos that used to come underneath the buckets and our cabin hatchway was facing that and many a time that 'd come right down the cabin , the mud . |
| 20 | And I had to get a box and many a time I 've fallen on my back from that so Cos somebody had moved the boxes I think . |
| 21 | My mother was the one that used to struggle and many a time she 's gone without herself you know . |
| 22 | The compensatory factor was that old-school professionals did not usually have their own transport and many a signature was cajoled out of them on their way to nearest railway station or tram or bus stop . |
| 23 | The who 's who of the business world is in town this week and many a deal will be struck between races . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Then might you have seen many a horse running about the field with the saddle under his belly , and many a horseman in evil plight upon the ground . |
| 26 | The Victorian view of horses as God-given servants of mankind was no help either : many a trainer , and many a book , regarded horses as ‘ stupid ’ , ‘ nervous ’ , ‘ irrationally flighty ’ and so on . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Foxes have thick pelts and many a fox has died from gangrene caused by shotgun pellets ; again a slow and agonising death . |
| 29 | This is often far from the case and many a combination has come to grief at the very last fence . |
| 30 | And many an insect was saved , perhaps from the very same predator , by an uncannily close resemblance to a twig , on occasions when the predator happened to be seeing it at relatively close range and in a good light . |