Example sentences of "he [vb past] [prep] many " in BNC.
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| 1 | He lived for many years at Brockham , Betchworth , Surrey , and died there 10 April 1935 . |
| 2 | Vincent had grasped early on that his deep-seated , recurring fearfulness in the face of life was a condition he shared with many nineteenth-century artists . |
| 3 | An Oxford rugby blue in 1959 and 1960 and a keen sailor , Sir Robin , 54 , is remembered by many Whitehall contemporaries as the shrewd captain of the Mandarins cricket team which he led for many years . |
| 4 | Apart from the fact that he moved among many of the leading artists of the day such as John Landseer father of Sir Edwin Landseer , Robert Hills ( 1769–1844 ) one of the founders of the Society of Painters in Water colours , and John Glover ( 1769–1844 ) , we know little of his time there . |
| 5 | Such were the treasures to be seen when Philip Miller arrived at Oud-Poelgeest in 1727 and he reported on many rare shrubs and gathered seeds from curious plants . |
| 6 | St. Saviour 's Church for the Deaf owed its new electric lighting and heating system to his generosity , and he contributed to many deaf charities . |
| 7 | He contributed to many newspapers and magazines , one of them the Weekly Dispatch , in whose pages he was in 1885–6 an early advocate of the formation of an independent Labour party . |
| 8 | An incident at dinner on Sunday night became part of the Reverend Mr Grant 's conversational furniture , a story he told for many years later . |
| 9 | His last owner found he suffered from many anxiety-induced health problems including cribbing , psychosomatic skin conditions , and chronic colic ; and also behavioural problems including tongue over the bit , reluctance to eat , fear of being in a large yard or paddock , inability to walk , trot , or canter properly , and sheer terror if he thought he had done something wrong ! |
| 10 | He added to many existing houses and castles , but his finest design is probably Stracathro House of 1828 with its noble Corinthian portico . |
| 11 | In his responsiveness to temporal processes he differed from many of his contemporaries and we can look upon him as the forerunner in literature of those , like Spenser and Shakespeare in the late sixteenth century , who were greatly concerned with the irreversible effects of time on the human mind and Spirit . |
| 12 | He served for many years as examiner for the London water supply and held strong views on sewage purification . |
| 13 | He served for many years on the boards of the Animal Diseases Research Organisation and the College of Agriculture . |
| 14 | As a prominent local man he served on many commissions in Nottinghamshire , including those for the subsidy ( 1512 , 1523–4 ) and musters ( 1513 , 1524 ) ; and he was sheriff in 1518–19 and 1526–7 , and JP from 1521 until his death . |
| 15 | He was vice-president of the Royal College of Pathologists and of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and he served on many university and Health Service committees as chairman . |
| 16 | He calculated that 10,000 women lost their lives annually due to this rite and he campaigned with many others for it to be banned . |
| 17 | In 1971 Keith transferred to BNFL where he worked on many projects including the Waste Treatment Plant , Fuel Fabrication Plant , Salt Evaporation Plant and the Sludge Retrieval Project . |
| 18 | He worked for many years with Darlington firm Paton and Baldwin , rising to the position of chairman of sales before his retirement . |
| 19 | In spite of the touches of mystification he employed in many autobiographical references scattered through twenty years of publishing , it is possible to detect the complicated temperament he had inherited . |
| 20 | He swore he had never touched their sheep , and he swore by many Northern oaths that he was in Newcastle up till eleven o'clock on the night of the murders . |
| 21 | A strain of independent socialist thinking runs through his courses , pamphlets , and articles for Plebs , the NCL journal he edited for many years . |
| 22 | From 1938 to 1944 he talked to many companies , including Kodak and IBM , to no avail . |
| 23 | In Jamaica , as well as tending the Governor 's household , he looked after many islanders who had great faith in him . |
| 24 | He collaborated with many mathematicians and inventors in putting new forms of instrument into production . |
| 25 | Barnacles were a fit subject for Darwin to work on , as he did for many years , because of their curious metamorphosis ; and also because of the way in which males have regressed to become merely vestigial in some species . |
| 26 | Temperamental , moody , and irascible , he appeared to many of his critics to be culpably inconsistent in the attitudes he took to some of the contentious issues of his day . |
| 27 | She had seen for herself the effect he had on many of his clients ; had herself been impressed by his ability to amuse them with his quick wit and entertaining anecdotes . |
| 28 | In seeking to understand and present the work of others in his Report on the Theory of Numbers , he had in many cases progressed far beyond them . |
| 29 | With this one exception , he said in many pages what Lanfranc had said in a few sentences . |
| 30 | He said in many cases it reduced the need for conventional surgery , and it produced less scarring . |