Example sentences of "[verb] have [verb] a [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The face of Helen of Troy is said to have launched a thousand ships , and the beauty of Cleopatra created havoc in the Roman Empire . |
| 2 | ‘ Somebody seems to have scored a hundred runs and been the hero of the school . ’ |
| 3 | St Bernards had placed a fee on this transfer should he go to a Football League club so Palace had to settle with them and with Kettering , but his eminent place in the club 's history assures us that if Palace had had to pay a dozen clubs , it would have been money well spent . |
| 4 | We 've had to make a million pounds savings this last year . |
| 5 | this is the story of my life now in the bathroom I have had , I have had to pay a hundred pounds to Mr Butcher the plumber to put in a new shower thing because that was cheap and rough and eventually wore out should never have been put in . |