Example sentences of "how many [noun pl] [pers pn] have [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How many approaches you 've made , how many first interviews you 've made , how many referrals you 've got , yes ? |
| 2 | And to encourage people to work they would make them fill in a job-sheet saying how many forms they had booked in . |
| 3 | I 'll tell Alison the accountant then , and she 'll tell me what she 's sold and how many contracts we 've booked and but it 's done in front of everybody else while everybody , why everybody else who 's on the phone . |
| 4 | He had little idea as to how far they had come and had lost count of how many times they had fallen . |
| 5 | One of the difficulties that results from these cuts and that tax has been that there had been so numerous that it ca n't keep count of how many times they 'd changed the goal posts , how many times they imposed cuts , but you know a lot of the government 's ideas are that it 's money , money , money , but it 's not all financial , it 's been physical and mental . |
| 6 | Having to count how many times they have hit the horse and then decide to give it one more is ridiculous . |
| 7 | To ask an ordinary person how many times they have visited the cinema during the past year is probably unfair for all except a small number who can quickly say ‘ never ’ or else ‘ regularly once a week without fail ’ . |
| 8 | I have lost count how many times we have done this . |
| 9 | I would sing to myself , perfectly content to be alone in my own dream world , imagining myself on television receiving an award for beating a world record and I would see my name and picture in the ‘ Guinness Book of Records ’ on the high bookshelf in my brother 's room where I could not reach it , and yet , through all those mornings of endless riding round the yard , I never once counted just how many times I had ridden around to see if I had beaten the previous morning 's record , so sure was my conviction of success ! |
| 10 | I do n't know how many times I 'd done the Harwich-to-London run , but the journey seemed different that day — like a well-known view captured in a freshly painted picture . |
| 11 | ‘ I could n't count how many times I 've fallen down ! |
| 12 | . You know what I do n't know how many times I 've stripped that down . |
| 13 | ‘ You know very well how many times I 've asked to see you , speak to you . |
| 14 | But you ca n't imagine how many times I 've thought , ‘ If I 'd kept him , he might have lived . ’ |
| 15 | You 've no idea how many times I 've willed myself not to say that — and won . ’ |
| 16 | I do not know how many times I have had such replies on social security appeals that have been turned down . |
| 17 | " If you want to be a good wife to me , and only the Lord knows how many times you 've said that 's what you want , you can stop asking questions and making deductions about where I been or what 's passed my lips , see ? |
| 18 | As for North , ‘ he would either go to jail or be decorated ’ , Secord used to say to Hakim ; and McFarlane told him — as he sat jet-lagged and exhausted in his office the night after a gruelling Iranian session in Frankfurt — that ‘ if the world only knew how many times you have kept a semblance of integrity and gumption to US policy , they would make you Secretary of State . ’ |
| 19 | She said , ‘ Then tell me , my Lord , how many times you have thought about me this day . ’ |
| 20 | Even so , it was not sure how many times he had tried it . |
| 21 | How many times she had felt a lift of excitement when she saw that sign and knew that Riverstown was only ten minutes away . |
| 22 | I am sorry so many years passed without our having an intercourse by letters , as I am sensible how many observations I have lost which must have fallen in your way to have made . |
| 23 | Can you go and ask her how many bags she 's got ? |
| 24 | Could you go and ask her how many bags she 's got ? |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm not going to tell how many women I 've slept with because I 'm happily married and want to stay that way . |
| 26 | I 've lost count of how many women I have helped . |
| 27 | I hate to think how many women he has assaulted since then . ’ |
| 28 | The Place icon will appear with a number inside it indicating how many elements you have stored , the latest one should be the first . |
| 29 | Only last week , the last time I sat in court er there was an instance of one individual who had had twelve cautions in a period of eight months er he was still a youth so his name obviously can not be divulged , erm and it 's not only the cautions , I wonder how many warnings he 'd received as well . |
| 30 | If the galls normally have only one insect inside each , count how many adults you have collected altogether . |