Example sentences of "[pers pn] have be [adv] many " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I was on the streets of Ireland now , and I 've been there many occasions and someone said to me , look at that Welsh get there , I would just have to take it . |
| 2 | ‘ Yes , it 's a pot I 've been down many times — not the easiest ; apart from a fifty-foot pitch we 'll have to haul him up , there 's a long sump we 'll have to bring the injured man back through which could be tricky if he 's unconscious or uncooperative . |
| 3 | I have been there many times and had many unshakeable criticisms , which now have , of course , been shaken . ’ |
| 4 | ( Oh , yes , and before you ask , I have been there many a time . |
| 5 | I have been there many times , both for business and for pleasure . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ When I think back , knowing what I know now — and I have been so many places , and looked into the windows of other people 's lives , and I have seen so much — I still ca n't say for sure what Gittel really wanted . |
| 7 | But even this has not stopped my love for canoeing as I have been out many times since and this summer , when I was at camp , I was going down a weir , when I got caught in a stopper at the bottom and nearly drowned myself again . |
| 8 | She is older than the rocks among which she sits ; like the vampire , she has been dead many times , and learned the secrets of the grave ; and has been a diver in deep seas , and keeps their fallen day about her ; and trafficked for strange webs with Eastern merchants ; and , as Leda , was the mother of Helen of Troy , and , as Saint Anne , the mother of Mary ; and all this has been to her but as the sound of lyres and flutes , and lives only in the delicacy with which it has moulded the changing lineaments , and tinged the eyelids and the hands . |
| 9 | It is a memorable evocation , casting a spell over the reader : ‘ She is older than the rocks among which she sits ; like the vampire , she has been dead many times , and learned the secrets of the grave ; and has been a diver in deep seas , and keeps their fallen day about her … ’ |
| 10 | But she said that they had been so many months or when everybody else had a pay rise they only had a little bit . |
| 11 | To judge by the photographs , on this occasion it had been as many as twenty . |
| 12 | He had been there many times before . |