Example sentences of "he had [adv] many " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had as many facets as a diamond , and was just as hard . |
| 2 | Some of the old Polish poison is back , too ; people mutter that former prime minister Mazowiecki lost the presidential election because he had too many Jewish advisers . |
| 3 | The firing range which he was running was not to be fully operational for several months and he had too many soldiers to employ usefully . |
| 4 | He had too many disputes on his hands which never produced the results that he desired . |
| 5 | And he looked in quite good form did Bob and he did n't look as though he had too many worries and then this happens and you wonder just whether it was n't premeditated rather than in haste . |
| 6 | He had too many interruptions . |
| 7 | Speelman had to give up his queen to avoid being mated , but by that time he had so many pieces for it that he was still able to draw comfortably . |
| 8 | He did n't come till the next day , he had so many calls , and all the same — sick children . |
| 9 | Although he preferred to train dancers from the age of nine , by the time the pantomime season came he had so many to cast he had to accept adults and teach them after they had finished a day 's work . |
| 10 | He had so many appreciative friends in very high places that he probably considered himself safe . |
| 11 | He had so many irons in the fire that he was seldom there . |
| 12 | He had so many wives that there was no counting them and the wives had so many young that even Frith could not count them and they ate the grass and the dandelions and the lettuces and the clover and El-ahrairah was the father of them all . " |
| 13 | Oliver wondered why the old man lived in such an old , dirty place , when he had so many watches , but then he thought that it must cost Fagin a lot of money to look after the Dodger and the other boys . |
| 14 | He had so many . |
| 15 | At a time when he had so many claims on his time , what with his normal work , committees , visitors from overseas , particularly from the United States , a growing acquaintanceship and a formidable correspondence , the assurance that he was ‘ here again and available ’ was of great moral support to me , especially as I was still uncertain about the future , and as the news , as his letter hinted , was by no means all good . |
| 16 | Whatever else Luke was — and , heaven knew , he had so many facets — he could be great company when he chose . |
| 17 | He had so many wonderful sides to him I had to accept that this was just another one . |