Example sentences of "many [noun] [pers pn] [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Doubtless you have many projects you wish to return to some works of high magic , no doubt … ’ |
| 2 | He felt helpless at being able to do nothing and no matter how many times he tried to convince her everything would be all right , she did not respond . |
| 3 | Do n't have to drop me , you 're not me taxi , do n't matter how many times you have to take me , here . |
| 4 | I think they suggest the figure of-eight method as a hint at how many times you have to keep trying at your first attempt . |
| 5 | I do n't think I had ever watched the dawn break until my Waaf days — certainly I had never stayed up all night before , and however many times I had to do it in the course of my duties , it always seemed to me a highly unnatural procedure . |
| 6 | I do n't know how many times I have to say , that we 've we 've been there and we know all about this . |
| 7 | ‘ I lived in his house for three weeks , unable to go out , in such an agony of self-disgust and fear that many times I wanted to give myself up . |
| 8 | It 's different hiring people here too : everybody has a contract that specifies exactly how many hours they have to work , length of vacations everything ’ . |
| 9 | In many cases you have to lower your expectations accordingly . |
| 10 | I was paid by the dry weight and you can imagine how many bucketfuls I needed to scrape off the rocks to earn myself any return at all . |
| 11 | Oh I see as opposed to that which is how many groups they proceed to check . |
| 12 | Microsoft Corp is spraying statistics in all directions to try and convince the industry of NT 's success : 60,000 software development kits have been sent out , it says , 25,000 dealers and the like should be trained before the launch , and it has commitments from developers that over 500 applications will be ready by the autumn — however it absolutely refuses to comment on how many copies it expects to sell . |
| 13 | Microsoft Corp is spraying statistics in all directions to try and convince the industry of NT 's success : 60,000 software development kits have been sent out , it says , 25,000 dealers and the like should be trained before the launch , and it has commitments from developers that over 500 applications will be ready by the autumn — however it absolutely refuses to comment on how many copies it expects to sell . |
| 14 | S what in fact er Mrs said is too early in the process of community care to know how many homes you have to close she really is approaching it from the wrong way , it 's equally too early in the process of community care to know how many homes you need to have open , keep open or open and that is one of the problems which I believe this council and other councils will will face . |
| 15 | S what in fact er Mrs said is too early in the process of community care to know how many homes you have to close she really is approaching it from the wrong way , it 's equally too early in the process of community care to know how many homes you need to have open , keep open or open and that is one of the problems which I believe this council and other councils will will face . |
| 16 | None of the companies we spoke to would forecast how many cars they aim to sell in 1993 , nor how many customers who would previously have bought kits are expected to switch to type-approved cars . |
| 17 | The players have now scored 70 goals between them for Rangers in all competitions this season , though McCoist was jocularly chided by his manager as he attempted to reply to the unanswerable question , posed him by a foreign journalist , of how many goals he expected to score tonight . |
| 18 | He does n't look the sort of player to me that would score many goals I have to say . |
| 19 | In many respects it fails to answer these issues satisfactorily , although allowing the court to order medical examinations without parental consent legitimizes a position well established on an informal basis amongst the professionals involved . |
| 20 | McCreery had already signalled to Gen Clark at 15th Army Group in his AC/1 90 his request that AFHQ should " ask Tito how many enemy he wishes to retain . |
| 21 | According to his biographer , Henry Bordeaux , even when he landed he remained in a trance ‘ as if electrified by the fluid still passing through his frame ’ Though through so many dogfights he seemed to bear a charmed life , this kind of nervous impulsiveness seemed bound to lead to disaster . |
| 22 | Any subject er three seems to suit , all odd numbers , funny enough , seem to better than o even numbers , I du n no why , but erm maybe I 've been told that by so many judges I begin to believe it . |
| 23 | and it was er a penny each way from across to Mold and when he sold out to Crosswell , old Jenkins stipulated that for so many years they had to keep penny each way |
| 24 | So what I 'm saying is here is , again your ratios and anything on the computer , it will tell you how many appointments you need to make just from your ratios . |
| 25 | well no , you go back and you have to start again , then you go , unless if you get say five that 's how many worms you have to give baby birds a day |
| 26 | Like many organisations we have to review our costs very carefully and I doubt the increase from £12 to £25 could be approved . |
| 27 | One of the many caveats I want to make about these still-experimental calculations is that they are not typical at all socio-economic levels . |
| 28 | Rover had not set a figure on how many workers they expected to take the cash offer , he added . |
| 29 | She began to count how many guests they had to invite : members of the immediate family , of course , all their old friends and neighbours … . |
| 30 | There were many questions he wanted to ask her but he needed ammunition . |