Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [verb] a [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It should have become an I Tatti of modern French art ’ |
| 2 | He would never understand how she could memorize all those complex , impossibly long poems , yet forget the words of a simple song she must have heard a thousand times or more . |
| 3 | He must have waved a thousand times , and it was barely ten o'clock . |
| 4 | I 've been family member for twelve years and must have seen a thousand children , and of those , barely fifty had both their natural mother and father ! |
| 5 | He must have questioned a hundred people but none could remember seeing the green car . |
| 6 | But on a rainy March afternoon in 1988 it must have seemed a million miles from home . |
| 7 | ‘ I think I must have aged a dozen years today , ’ she said . |
| 8 | The phrase , which was one she must have used a hundred times to visiting parishioners in ordinary times , took on a poignant inadequacy in the context of the murder of her husband . |
| 9 | He must have taken a thousand pictures with people . |
| 10 | Between the Arch and the back of the Admiralty proper runs a small unnamed side-street which I must have passed a hundred times without really noticing . |
| 11 | Except they 'll have had a four course meal to eat . |
| 12 | Now the Child Support Agency says he 'll have to pay a hundred pounds a week . |
| 13 | She had perhaps a few spoonfuls of oil ; she was told to pour those minute contents of her jar into jars that might have held a hundred times as much as she had . |
| 14 | Voluntary organisations like the Rainer Foundation are at last being listened to and boroughs that ten years ago might have had a dozen children 's homes now have only a couple . |
| 15 | ‘ Because you have a face that might have launched a thousand ships . |
| 16 | Well that 's right , it 's , it 's more than we 've had before and if it 's a success , perhaps we 'll manage to have a twenty-four hour line . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'd like to live a hundred years with the ones I 've got now , ’ he said . |
| 18 | Jeanette Howse of the Didcot Railway Centre explains that Kenneth 's popularity means they could have invited a thousand guests . |
| 19 | A packet of Jaw Breakers cost 15 pence for four.But they could have cost an eight year old boy his life . |
| 20 | But they could have cost an 8 year old boy his life . |
| 21 | We might even be able to evolve an exact reconstruction of a dodo by selectively breeding pigeons , though we 'd have to live a million years in order to complete the experiment . |
| 22 | They 'd have had a nine inch thick |
| 23 | The footings and parts of the walls of around 300 chambers have survived on the ground floor ; the presence of several staircases implies the existence of upper storeys and , taking into account the destroyed upper floors as well , the original temple may have had a thousand chambers altogether . |
| 24 | I would need to make a two-into-one jack socket for the speaker — would this cause problems ? |
| 25 | I might as well have had that shower , she thought drily ; at least I would have felt a hundred times more human . |
| 26 | It is a horrifying thought because a good , well trained polisher would have served a seven year apprenticeship and we contemporary furniture-makers can not pretend to get near that knowledge and experience . |
| 27 | Before the case was finished Dalgliesh would have received a dozen pictures of Lorrimer 's personality , transferred like prints from other men 's minds . |
| 28 | The Netherlands Prime Minister , Ruud Lubbers , on Feb. 14 halted a $1,500 million sale of four submarines to Taiwan , which he said would have breached a 1984 accord with China [ see pp. 33036-37 ] . |
| 29 | IT 'S a feat that his circus act father would have made a million bucks from , but how could Mr Major-Ball have foreseen that everything little John touched would turn into 100% pure horse-dung ? |
| 30 | She would have passed a hundred breathalysers . ’ |