Example sentences of "the many [noun pl] [pers pn] have [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Judging by the many letters we 've received ( sorry not enough space to print them all ) , there are clearly a lot of people who agree with you . |
| 2 | Mr Chance has written a book based on the many talks he has given , papers he has written and conferences he has attended a record of his years working with the mentally handicapped . |
| 3 | These are some of the many exchanges we have had this year with lawyers from overseas . |
| 4 | He 'd asked her to wait for him , and although she 'd been too angry at the time to say that she would , she had nevertheless avoided marriage to anyone else despite the many proposals she 'd had . |
| 5 | There were gifts and handshakes on the top floor of Hinton House as Sir christopher Bade farewell to some of the many friends he has made during his six-year chairmanship . |
| 6 | The greater the number of lectures you must attend , the tighter and more automatic must be your techniques , or else you will find after a week or two that you have only a mass of undigested scribbles as the poor product of the many lectures you have attended . |
| 7 | George says he will miss the many contacts he has made in BNFL and URENCO over the years but is looking forward to spending more time on his hobbies , particularly gardening , walking and amateur dramatics . |
| 8 | Friends pay more visits to our properties than most people do , and we know that many of you have noticed and appreciated the many improvements we have made . |
| 9 | I blush in light of the many times we have floundered recently , not to mention my straying . |
| 10 | Constance remembered the many times she had seen her mother and him alone together either in the village street or at home ; she had been uneasily aware of their absorption in each other . |
| 11 | She looked back through the many pages she had written , and saw the great names glitter there — Proclus , Plotinus , Iamblichus , Ficino , Pico , Agrippa . |
| 12 | In spite of the many things it has achieved over the last hundred years — and we have all been shaped by that — it has got itself boxed in by one issue . |
| 13 | The many hours we have spent playing , seeing , hearing whilst making these films have taught us a great deal . |
| 14 | Ines Oppenheimer comments : ‘ I actually think I have had a more interesting career as a result of the many changes I have made . |
| 15 | Earlier he had heard that a young clerk from the Post Office had shot himself while lying in bed … he had left a young widow , to whom he had been married in Calcutta during the previous cold season ; this act of despair had moved him more than any other of the many deaths he had witnessed since the beginning of the siege ; it was perhaps the fact that the young man had been lying in bed when he had shot himself that the Collector found so sad . |
| 16 | Of the many books I have read , the ones whose authors showed that they possessed the most joy and happiness were Epictetus , Seneca , Tagore , Thoreau , Kabir , Raidas , Ramakrishna , Rumi , W.H. Davies , Vinoba Bhave . |
| 17 | ‘ I fully expected to see a hangar out there and there was n't one ’ , lamented Kermit as we looked through the many pictures he had brought with him to the Reno Air Races . |
| 18 | But with Karen such frankness was out of the question , and without her cooperation , getting rid of Dennis looked like just another of the many pipe-dreams I had indulged in over the years . |
| 19 | He toured Western China and Tibet on his bicycle , paying his way by developing the many photographs he had taken in local universities and sending them back north to paying customers . |