Example sentences of "he [vb past] [adv] many " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made so many plans for this wedding . |
| 2 | Somehow he managed to make it fun , the way he made so many things fun , and , now he was either dead or else taken over by some force I could not even begin to understand , there was nothing whatsoever to keep me in the Church . |
| 3 | He produced as many copies as possible in the economical A state , stopping the press at once to rejig the type . |
| 4 | David Scott , for example , complained that he got so many requests for Indian patronage from the council of St. Andrews that if the remaining burghs in his district were to seek aid in proportion to the size of their communities it ‘ would require more patronage than the whole East India Direction have in their gift ’ . |
| 5 | He owned so many feddans of land . |
| 6 | He read extensively many leading political writers of the age , notably Turgot . |
| 7 | He tried so many times before |
| 8 | ‘ But he ate as many as he could get , ’ said Tweedledum . |
| 9 | He admired so many qualities in Fisher : the shrewdness about people , the grasp of practical problems , the ability to work very long hours , the patience under abuse from the press , the humility which went with a cocksureness that was not arrogance . |
| 10 | There was a Dylan Thomas in Hopper , not just in his abilities but in his self-destruct mechanism and it was a great pity in many ways that he spent so many years in James Dean 's gloomy black shadow , because he is talented and perhaps even more diverse . |
| 11 | His trousers were rough against her skin and smelt fusty like the church where he spent so many hours praying , presumably , for guidance . |
| 12 | On some days he delivered as many as fourteen speeches and on one occasion shook 2,000 hands in a receiving line . |
| 13 | And he dight himself full gallantly and well , and took with him many knights , both his own and of his kindred and of his friends , and he took also many new arms , and came to Valencia to the King with two hundred of his peers in arms , in festival guise ; and the King went out to meet him , and received him right well , and did him honour ; and at this were all the Counts displeased . |
| 14 | He took as many arrows as he could carry and , holding his bow with an arrow ready notched , set off down the track after the verderers . |
| 15 | I could not understand him — he talked so much , and he knew so many books . |
| 16 | He set out at ten ; he viewed as many houses as possible , trudged across miles of fitted carpet and sanded floors , exchanged weary smiles with anxious vendors . |
| 17 | With this aim in mind , he bought as many teach-yourself-photography books as he could lay his hands on , and read them all avidly . |
| 18 | It was still unthinkable to see him without his sketchbook and pencil , but of the hundreds and hundreds of drawings he made , he gave away many or sold them for a few francs . |
| 19 | He thought the lectures far too many and that he gave too many lectures for his own good . |
| 20 | He had as many facets as a diamond , and was just as hard . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | He had too many disputes on his hands which never produced the results that he desired . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | He had too many interruptions . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | He did n't come till the next day , he had so many calls , and all the same — sick children . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | He had so many appreciative friends in very high places that he probably considered himself safe . |
| 30 | He had so many irons in the fire that he was seldom there . |