Example sentences of "have [adv] many [noun] [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dragonfly has so many ommatidia that it can see as well as some vertebrates . |
| 2 | He has as many selves as he has utterances , virtual or realized , as many selves as there are words in his lexicon , even in the dictionary of his potential language , with each word its aetimology , its phoneyetic fragility and its semiantic sea changes , each word its infinite contiguities and its tall spokes of paradismatic possibilities . |
| 3 | I do n't think he has that many visitors and I feel we should give him all the support we can . ’ |
| 4 | I think that he , who could have had as many friends as he wished , never realized how much it meant to a lonely and friendless person to have a friend , to be seen walking with him in the rose-red streets of Salamanca , to be able to go to a concert or an art museum with him , to have him opposite me at dinner in even the meanest , cheapest restaurant . |
| 5 | They discovered that people in poor countries persisted in having so many children because they wanted them . |
| 6 | ‘ After that , I did n't have so many problems once I was in the lead . ’ |
| 7 | It 's a a a re a really nice restaurant but you can pick all your food raw and they just , there 's a chef cooking , and you just get one of these plates , you can have as many helpings as you want , they serve you a cold starter and a hot starter but there 's a buffet that 's about half the size of our club and one side of it it 's all fish on a wet fish slab , and steak , and veal , and chicken and so there 's every sort of meat you can think of , and you can pick a wooden platter full of it , so you go and give it the chef with this number that they give you and then they come serve you with whatever you want . |
| 8 | I think it 's about twenty quid a head , but you can actually have as many meals as you want , or as many puddings as you want . |
| 9 | Like 1-2-3 and SuperCalc , Quattro Pro lets you see the different sheets on-screen at the same time , but you can have as many windows as you like — tiled , tiered , or whatever ! |
| 10 | ‘ I do n't have as many men as you , ’ he replied angrily . |
| 11 | You may have as many sheets as you need ; ask the invigilator . |
| 12 | They can have as many boyfriends as they want . |
| 13 | Women soon learn that with their anatomy and a modicum of allure they can have as many penises as they want . |
| 14 | He retaliates by wishing : ( " That you should have as many cunts as I have pricks on me " ) |
| 15 | I know she does n't like me having too many dresses because we ca n't afford it , and I do n't mind — only it might be the wrong colour . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ And the house is big enough for you to have as many friends as you want to visit you . |
| 17 | Now here was this gifted sister , who had so many opportunities that he had been denied , apparently threatening to throw them all down the drain , and bury herself in some backwater in Africa . |
| 18 | And then they had a points system which meant that er you had so many points and you could , there were certain foods that were just on points and er you could choose to spend your points on whatever you wanted . |
| 19 | ‘ I believe , in a case like yours , ’ wrote Mountbatten , coincidentally on St Valentine 's Day in 1974 , ‘ the man should sow his wild oats and have as many affairs as he can before settling down , but for a wife he should choose a suitable , attractive and sweet-charactered girl before she met anyone else she might fall for . |
| 20 | We have as many figures as we need to prove that to Brussels , and we are doing so . |
| 21 | All women have as many babies as they can manage : four , three , two , one , none at all : as many as they can afford — physically , emotionally , practically . |