Example sentences of "many a time [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | And and really you know on second thought , many a time we 've thought that her words ha have been there and you 'd say , Oh no I wo n't have it you know . |
3 | I mean many a time we had mm . |
4 | Many a time they had drunk thus together , as boys , as youths , as men , and come out under the same starlit sky to walk beside each other up the familiar High Street where every house was a landmark and every face part of a shared history . |
5 | He was a laughing man of wit and humour — many a time he referred to the ‘ larks and escapades ’ with his special friends , some of whom doubtless remembered his satirical poem at Pisa against the rule about wearing academic togas in town . |
6 | Many a time he commented upon the mental rapport he found with his most intelligent animals . |
7 | Many a time he had slept in worse quarters when he had attended David on his seasonal progresses in Gwynedd . |
8 | S. H. The kids — many a time you would go about with a dozen bloody sweets in your pocket . |
9 | Yeah , yeah I wished we did like them cos many a time you can make a meal |
10 | Many a time I have wanted to ask her about this , and thought it wrong . |
11 | Many a time I have walked in the neighbouring church grounds aurally locating the sound of the distant well [ Ashwell ] , shifting my focus to the sound of the wind blowing through the tops of an adjacent circle of Scots Pine , then merging the two together in a synthesis of natural sound to create a powerful aurally based sense of place . |
12 | Many a time I had the hand-brush and so did my brothers and sisters but it never did us any harm . |
13 | Many a time I said to my husband : |
14 | 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 . |
15 | And then after that but er many a time I wish I was back you know . |
16 | Many a time I had wished that Frank and Salome were not so upwardly mobile and were back slumming it in Stuart Street . |
17 | Yes a long street or somewhere around there , and yes I mean many oh many a time I 've , you 'd see ca every Wednesday night you 'd see the cattle being driven up . |
18 | bubble , there 's only one thing wrong with it , I said to my lad many a time I said the trouble is with the world today everybody wants too much money for doing what they have to do , that 's why things are dear |
19 | there 's many a time I do n't buy stuff mum for myself |
20 | My mother was the one that used to struggle and many a time she 's gone without herself you know . |
21 | Many a time she had seen the hounds draw such a covert and heard them open and challenge as the fox broke . |