Example sentences of "many a [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many a feminist seems to have become fixated upon Mary in recent years . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | This morning it was starts from the state boat ; many a race has been won in the first hundred yards or so , and Oxford , as always , are coached and prepared for everything . |
| 4 | It was also to many a crusade defending Anglican Protestantism against irreligion , popery and even the Jacobites . |
| 5 | I thought , ‘ this will make the carrying of the tea to the remaining resident members of my family an uncommonly pleasant event , because they will all smile upon me instead of producing the customary resentful grunt when I stir them from sleep , and they will say ‘ Good morning , dear husband/father ( as the case might be ) , and they will reach under their beds for the gift-wrapped goodies so lovingly prepared and concealed the night before , and handing me their tributes they will voice their gratitude to God that I have survived so far , and will express the pious hope that they may be able to repeat such sentiments on this same date for many a year to come . |
| 6 | Many a case had only been solved by a combination of Morton 's flair and his own instincts . |
| 7 | Many a parent struggling with an unruly child may be surprised to hear this , but as the developmental psychologist Mary Ainsworth observes : |
| 8 | erm I think in a way to , as many a parent knows , to act instantly , cause some pain , and then let the matter drop , is a very good system in some senses , but is it , is it a good thing to have happening in the middle of traffic ? erm I suggest that on the whole something might be gained if this was tried here . |
| 9 | There were six of us in our room with many a quarrel breaking out amongst us . |
| 10 | Comedy , what is more , is arguably a higher skill , as many a performer knows . |
| 11 | Many a person has been seen hastening into their house on a fine summer 's day by this bit of imitation . |
| 12 | It is true they did not survive unscathed and that the Bodleian Library was founded well after the Reformation , but many a manuscript discarded from the monasteries fetched up in the possession of one of the colleges , and private men such as Sir Thomas Bodley soon repaired the broken links . |
| 13 | For most there was little opportunity : the peasant rarely saw beyond the group of villages in which he was born ; many a townsman strayed only a little further ; monks were incarcerated in monasteries for life — and so forth . |
| 14 | As Kingsley says , ‘ England has need of him as a transition-stage between feudalism and , for many a day to come . |
| 15 | On the other hand , there was Cinderella herself played by Yana , an enticingly beautiful singer of the day whose hit , ‘ Climb Up The Garden Wall ’ made many a man feel like doing precisely that . |
| 16 | The current exhibition of Indian dress at Liberty ( Regent Street , London W1 , until October 21 ) shows many a garment bought by an Empire wife and stored in a trunk , along with christening dress , lace collars and evening gowns . |
| 17 | He 's taught many a Clubrep to ski and with only a very few exceptions , he can virtually guarantee to get you up and around the bay first time . |
| 18 | Like many a mother faced with the apparent intransigence of her child , she ignored the rebuff and gave the servants the best advice any of us could receive : ‘ Do whatever he tells you ’ ( John 2.5 ) . |
| 19 | SMELL The Glove , Nice'n'Stinky , Break Like The Wind — these are just some of the hilarious works of the spoof heavy metal band whose new book Inside Spinal Tap will fill many a Christmas stocking this year . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Many a report has been unsuccessful , not because it was badly written , but because the writer visualised one type of reader , whereas , in the end , the report ended up in front of someone entirely different . |
| 22 | ‘ Many a romp have I had with her , and boy , could she wriggle . ’ |
| 23 | Many a student has found the route to vegetarianism via depleted funds . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 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 | Many a career has been cemented for a further twelvemonth over well-done rump steaks and bottles of Bulgarian wine . |
| 27 | There 's many a time wished I 'd had one of them buggers when I 've gone to these meetings , union meetings and that . |
| 28 | Many a time had Preston 's youthful slumbers been disturbed by the sound of the deluge from Nan 's bedroom window as it hit the corrugated iron roof of their garden shed and the wild feline howls as their coitus was so balefully interrupted . |
| 29 | Of course , the servants ' hall at Darlington Hall , like any servants ' hall anywhere , was obliged to receive employees of varying degrees of intellect and perception , and I recall many a time having to bite my lip while some employee — and at times , I regret to say , members of my own staff — excitedly eulogized the likes of , say , Mr Jack Neighbours . |
| 30 | 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 . |