Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] many [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | She lived for many years , and preserved a record that she had been treated with Penicillium . |
| 3 | Patients lived for many years , and some died from causes unrelated to their blood pressure . |
| 4 | For instance , this year there will be a film marking the centenary of Leo Walmsley , the novelist who lived for many years at Robin Hood 's Bay . |
| 5 | I lived for many years in the north of England . |
| 6 | Good Friday is about punks at Hastings , where I lived for many years , seen feeding a hot-cross bun to pigeons . |
| 7 | He lived for many years at Brockham , Betchworth , Surrey , and died there 10 April 1935 . |
| 8 | Never married , Lottie Dod lived for many years in London before moving to Milford-on-Sea . |
| 9 | It was almost a model village , with its Quality Street , where a future head of the Secret Service lived for many years . |
| 10 | By 1820 , it was owned and worked by Robert Wight , who continued to manufacture cloth there , the mill becoming known as Wights Mill , a name that it retained for many years . |
| 11 | On two consecutive years the venue , one used for many conferences , tried to cancel our booking . |
| 12 | He lived chancily , moved into many crises , both business and legal , but always emerged from the other side safely — and usually richer , more powerful . |
| 13 | Though Cranmer drew from many sources , it was his own touch which gave the Prayer Book the charm , perfection of form and expression which were to endow the Church of England for centuries with unity , strength and a way to the hearts of men . |
| 14 | On the way we stopped in many towns and villages , so that I could be shown to people . |
| 15 | The interface , therefore , between aid personnel involved in the field of environmental conservation and government institutions in Nepal is interesting and one found in many countries elsewhere . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Inside the plant , levels of radiation in the abandoned reactor building rose to many times the lethal level . |
| 18 | Post-war architects , amongst whom Frederick Gibberd was soon prominent , popularized a style which drew on many influences . |
| 19 | The possibility that natural communities could be visualized in similar terms occurred to many biologists in the later decades of the century , thus providing an incentive to study the interactions upon which the whole network depended . |
| 20 | With a workforce of 91,802 , 10,562 outlets serving meals to the value of £763.8 million a year and a turnover of £1,580,000 , opportunities ranged across many areas , including , craft , location management , purchasing , marketing , sales , personnel , and design and planning and were available both in the UK and overseas . |
| 21 | On an individual level I have been supported and validated by many lesbians of Afro-Caribbean and Indian sub-continent descent . |
| 22 | I believed for many years that I could move towards the future and leave the past behind , that there was no need for me to return home . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Ultranationalist thinking on the rural sector seemed in many ways only a more radical version of official views . |
| 25 | They came in many shapes , being made from collective desire , which fact seemed to move Sartori profoundly . |
| 26 | Before the war , they came from many lands to escape from the Nazis — Czechs , Poles , Hungarians , Yugoslavs , even some Germans who were against Hitler . |
| 27 | It came from many sources and for many reasons ; but the growth of Romanesque churches in the eleventh and early twelfth centuries was stimulated first and foremost by the flocks of pilgrims who arrived on major festivals and sought shelter and a place to worship in the presence of the high altar of a great church and the shrines of its saints . |
| 28 | It came from many quarters , both domestic and foreign , for his megalomaniac , as it was often characterized , insistence on Iran 's ‘ imperial vocation ’ of which in 1972 he celebrated the 2,500th birthday . |
| 29 | Most of the women were secretaries , models of deferential , under-educated Englishwomen who filed and typed and processed the enormous piles of bumph that came from many quarters . |
| 30 | The heads of various departments , foremen and other key workers were recruited from just across the county boundary in Sheffield and south Yorkshire ; the rest of the labour force came from many parts of Britain and Ireland . |