Example sentences of "many [noun pl] have [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How many times had she watched him do that ? |
| 2 | And how many times had she thought how easy it would be to poison him ? |
| 3 | How many times had she put that on in the privacy of her room and seen the different being it presented , especially when she also donned the leghorn hat . |
| 4 | How many times had she heard the phrase that she had just used so easily . |
| 5 | How many times had she heard him tell someone that ? |
| 6 | How many times had she come to tuck Lizzy in when she had been small ? |
| 7 | How many times had she pulled in young girls over the years ? |
| 8 | How many times had she said that to people ? |
| 9 | How many times had she reached out to him , trying to rouse the passion they used to share ? |
| 10 | How many times had I heard that remark ? |
| 11 | How many times had I heard , ‘ This is your home , ’ ‘ These are your sons , ’ ‘ You are my sister , ’ ‘ They are your daughters ’ ? |
| 12 | How many times had I prayed for the impossible ? |
| 13 | How many times had I told her not to do it ? — to wait . |
| 14 | How many times had he caused this quick , sudden ache in her ? |
| 15 | I know I pulled him out once but how many times has he pulled me out ! |
| 16 | how many times has he , has he done this to us now ? |
| 17 | How many times has it happened ? |
| 18 | Yeah but how many , how many times has it been a shop ? |
| 19 | How many times have we heard the phrase , ‘ Saddam Hussein wo n't negotiate ’ ? |
| 20 | How many times have we heard women who themselves are single parents saying that equal pay is wrong because men have families to support ? |
| 21 | How many times have we heard comments along the lines of ‘ What can you expect from a child from that kind of family ? ’ |
| 22 | Er how many times have we said , yeah , we can do this job but we 'll , it needs the route improvement that we 're doing for Arthur . |
| 23 | How many times have I heard you ? |
| 24 | How many times have I told you to dismount before letting go of your arrows ? |
| 25 | How many times have I told you that you should give up smoking but you never listen to what I say . |
| 26 | 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 ? ’ |
| 27 | 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 ! " |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | How many times have I asked myself : when is the world going to start making sense ? |
| 30 | How many times have I told Ma , send the baby back , only to be laughed at and pinched on the cheek ? |