Example sentences of "[verb] so many [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ An informer is an informer , ’ Tim Skerritt said , repeating what he had heard so many times in the village that day . |
| 2 | I find difficulty believing that they will be able to do that , simply because the detailed assessment that has been done to date , as we 've heard so many times is is incomplete . |
| 3 | He had heard so many stories of musket balls lodging in Bibles , not of course that he really believed them , but all the same What he wanted to do now was to find some immoral passages with which to confront the Padre , thereby proving to him that this book could not possibly be the word of God ( unadulterated , anyway ) . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've heard so many stories about him and all the good he did , and my dad was delighted when he found I was working with Sarah because she was his granddaughter . ’ |
| 5 | I frankly ca n't deal in the time allowed with what Mr said , I have never heard so many inaccuracies and misconceptions in a speech , it was the most comprehensive political suicide speech I 've heard yet in this council . |
| 6 | Never in her life had the penguin heard so many words . |
| 7 | Within another mile they had both witnessed so many stretchers , so many bodies and so many limbs no longer attached to bodies that no one had the stomach for jokes . |
| 8 | I had n't , I 'd borrowed it from Duncan but I 'd heard the Hell 's Angel crack so many times before I suddenly decided to charge him for it . |
| 9 | I did n't think so many people cared ’ . |
| 10 | The trade in all his restaurants had been slack over the past couple of weeks , and he was glad to see so many lunchtime diners . |
| 11 | One of the great pleasures of the exhibition is to see so many works of high quality brought into close proximity . |
| 12 | Many people said that they had an enjoyable afternoon and made a significant dent in their Christmas shopping list ; it was really nice to see so many members there . |
| 13 | It is good to see so many cheese and Wensleydale lovers quick to defend the same . |
| 14 | It was great to see so many climbers just having a go and obviously enjoying themselves . |
| 15 | In addition to all this , Professor Learner has been involved at various times in university adult education , and he takes English Literature courses regularly for the Centre for Continuing Education students , usually , but not invariably , at Friends Centre in Brighton , and I am sure that like myself he is happy to see so many adults from outside the university with us tonight . |
| 16 | Thank you very much for supporting the evening , nice to see so many faces , as I said especially on a summer evening like today . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm glad to see so many clowns here instead of where they should be — in Westminster or back in their constituencies , ’ quips Ron Moody , president of Clowns International , at the official opening of the European Clowns ' Convention on 21 March . |
| 18 | We know that you are sad to see so many disputes between different parts of your family and we cry to you for unity and harmony between brothers and sisters . |
| 19 | ALTHOUGH it was pleasing to see so many people out shopping last Saturday , I did not approve of the Oxford Street poster which urged people to ‘ Shop until you drop ’ . |
| 20 | Nice and warm in here and I like to see so many people . |
| 21 | NOW that Lennox Lewis has earned a world-title shot it 's interesting to see so many people who previously dubbed him a Canadian imposter jumping on the Brit-for-Champ bandwagon . |
| 22 | He glanced at the assembled company as though surprised to see so many people . |
| 23 | Both days were a great success and it was good to see so many people looking round the plant and seeing for themselves where our effort is going and what is being achieved . ’ |
| 24 | It is great to see so many people turn up and we hope this level of support continues during the cold winter evenings ahead . |
| 25 | I was a constituency delegate till last year 's Labour Party conference and I was absolutely astonished to see so many people from Head Office floating around the conference floor . |
| 26 | It was wonderful to see so many people and when I walked into the room I was actually quite terrified . |
| 27 | I think it 's really quite heartening to see so many aspects that the City Council are already taking notice of , and really are already putting it into their policies to view the environment as something precious , something we 've got to look after , but you 're warning us not to be too complacent are n't you ? |
| 28 | Now it wo n't cure all the problems I 'm pretending that it will , but if we were to have proper seats , proper microphones , electronic voting I believe that it would show symbolically that the House of Commons was prepared to modernize itself and start doing a proper job in our democracy rather than the farce and the theatre which frankly turns so many people off in modern Britain . |
| 29 | ‘ We lose so many girls to the professional ranks it means we are constantly having to start again as regards team selection , ’ continued Mrs. Boatman . |
| 30 | And Seal Sands Lock , the place where she had come to be healed so many times in the past , offered her no comfort now . |