Example sentences of "many [prep] his [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although no evidence of his activities before 1643 survives , we know that by then he had married , had established a house and warehouse at Leadenhall Street , and had brought over many of his relatives to work for him in England . |
| 2 | Many of his symphonies dealt with desolation — no light at the end of the tunnel . |
| 3 | With hindsight it seems that the prevailing structures of police practice will remain as powerful as ever , for at a conference on policing at Bristol University ( 1988 ) , the newly retired Sir Kenneth admitted that police culture had defeated many of his attempts to bring a new ethic to the managerial style during his reign as commissioner of the metropolis . |
| 4 | Many of his views categorize him as a wet — a European enthusiast ; against capital punishment ; and in favour of sensible abortion laws . |
| 5 | But many of his ironies stab home tellingly . |
| 6 | Many of his compositions play with the merging of foreground , middle-distance and background details into one overlapping pattern . |
| 7 | Lakatos failed to offer the rationalist account of science that many of his remarks indicate he intended to give . |
| 8 | Indeed , that was why so many of his remarks have echoed in my mind over the years , because experience has merely served to confirm their aptness . |
| 9 | Many of his findings revealed aspects of society which are more openly acknowledged today . |
| 10 | More damagingly , the right points out that many of his schemes have flopped . |
| 11 | Study of Mackmurdo 's character reveals a strong vein of the mountebank and many of his claims seem to have little basis in fact . |
| 12 | True , the scatological content of many of his letters encourages this view , but since when were intellectualism and a dirty mind mutually exclusive ? |
| 13 | C. S. Lewis would probably have laughed at being called a spiritual director , yet many of his letters contain such insights . |
| 14 | Interestingly his steak , bacon and sausage sales are buoyant because , although many of his customers have become various experts on stock disease , they do n't realise where the latter come from ! |
| 15 | He sat for a while without speaking , apparently debating how many of his thoughts to share . |
| 16 | Moreover , it was the location of the Infantry Academy where Franco himself and many of his fellow-rebels had been cadets . |
| 17 | I REALISE I 'm in a minority of one when I say I 'm bored with Beres Hammond 's indisputably soulful voice , but many of his records seem to lack the sheer excitement of ragga . |
| 18 | With an eye to Wembley next Wednesday , Baggio admits that he would love to play in what he and many of his team-mates regard as one of the ‘ temples ’ of world soccer . |
| 19 | Executions are easily exaggerated , but the Encomiast 's statement that many English leaders were killed with Eadric , and that of the later Evesham chronicle that many of his soldiers died too , are quite plausible , given that he would have had powerful henchmen whom it was doubtless politic to eliminate . |
| 20 | Many of his acquisitions had eventually bored him and had been disposed of by auction , but the most accomplished and entertaining individuals were rewarded , once they became too old or unattractive to perform their requisite duties , by unconditional liberation from the household and a generous pension . |
| 21 | Campbell was little concerned with the lives of ordinary seamen ; nor did he reflect the alarm which many of his contemporaries felt about the sea and the behaviour of those who sailed on it . |
| 22 | The philosopher Francis Bacon and many of his contemporaries summed up the scientific attitude of the times when they insisted that if we want to understand nature we must consult nature and not the writings of Aristotle . |
| 23 | In 1988 Courage 's Head of Design disdainfully referred to such ramshackle , unplanned buildings as ‘ an abundance of licensed living rooms ’ ; many of his contemporaries have enthusiastically destroyed the internal room plan of such cosy and comfortable buildings in order to install in its place a series of short flights between ascending levels — an increasingly common solution originally devised by pub designer Roy Wilson-Smith in the 1970s . |
| 24 | As so many of his contemporaries did , he had a penchant for traditional cottage architecture and was particularly fond of the Kentish styles and materials , having worked for Lord de l'Isle at Penshurst . |
| 25 | Lewis was more bitter since he felt — as so many of his contemporaries did — that he had been forced all his life to live in Eliot 's shadow . |
| 26 | It was to be the last occasion on which many of his friends saw him , for he and Tasker did not return from that 1982 Expedition . |
| 27 | Many of his friends had travelled to South Africa , signing on with the South African Army . |
| 28 | Many of his friends had laughingly warned him that he now had ‘ double trouble ’ . |
| 29 | As a last resort , Richard Baxter decided to try the Bishop of Worcester to seek his permission to return to Kidderminster , even though he knew the Bishop was no friend of the Gospel , and even though many of his friends entreated him not to go fearing his arrest . |
| 30 | At 17/971 , first right through the archway are the remains of the Monastery and Church of St Michael , an important church for the followers of Jan Hus , where many of his friends preached and where the sacrament was given sub utraque specie , in both kinds ( see p. 6 ) . |