Example sentences of "many [noun] have i " in BNC.

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1 How many times had I heard that remark ?
2 How many times had I heard , ‘ This is your home , ’ ‘ These are your sons , ’ ‘ You are my sister , ’ ‘ They are your daughters ’ ?
3 How many times had I prayed for the impossible ?
4 How many times had I told her not to do it ? — to wait .
5 How many times have I heard you ?
6 How many times have I told you to dismount before letting go of your arrows ?
7 How many times have I told you that you should give up smoking but you never listen to what I say .
8 Many times have I heard people say , ‘ But if there is a God up there , then why does he not help me in my dilemma ? ’
9 When we pointed the ending out to them , some said " You mean you can sometimes tell what a chapter is about by looking at the end " and others said " 0 Lord , how many times have I been told ! "
10 The absence of Neil Lenham ( how many times have I written that , I wonder ? ) handed Keith Greenfield a more regular opportunity to open , one this Brighton beau has grabbed enthusiastically , twice registering 55-overs bests , narrowly missing a Sunday best and forming such a productive partnership with Jamie Hall that Smith found himself at first drop for the initial one-dayers .
11 How many times have I asked myself : when is the world going to start making sense ?
12 How many times have I told Ma , send the baby back , only to be laughed at and pinched on the cheek ?
13 How many times have I disagreed with him ?
14 ’ Describing to Louise the heroic quest for style that Madame Bovary represents ( April 19th , 1852 ) , he explains : ‘ How many times have I fallen flat on my face , just when I thought I had it within my grasp .
15 How many times have I had someone come and say , can you sign this drawing please
16 And how many times have I heard that ?
17 ' — but how many times have I stood and laughed as that man on the hobbyhorse , a fool , an outsider to the troupe , prances round and through the dancers ?
18 ‘ How many times have I told you that I do n't intend to start answering personal questions ?
19 It 's one of your principle responsibilities , how many times have I told you ?
20 Look how many times have I told you to stop swinging on the handle you 're tipping it over .
21 so he said I did say I 'm bringing my wife , she said oh yeah how many times have I heard that before
22 Oh , oh mummy 's tired , how many times have I told you not to have the pen near the furniture though young lady .
23 How many times have I been ?
24 Such a fragile sense of identity , such a ceaseless , hopeless questing , I could not help but sympathise with : how many books had I seen which asked Who Are The Scots ?
25 Or ( how many years have I been promising myself this ? ) sorting out the stock cupboard/prep room ?
26 For how many years have I not defined , or at least decorated , myself by means of the fronded fragrances of the tobacco leaf ?
27 How many years have I lived there ?
28 How many years have I lived there ?
29 How many apples have I ?
30 ‘ How many concerts have I given ?
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