Example sentences of "[verb] a thousand [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh shit you 've won a thousand pounds |
| 2 | Now , I 've won a thousand pounds in the United Kingdom . |
| 3 | Have I won a thousand pounds ? |
| 4 | Our normal reality is like each of us living in a tiny , windowless cell in a house that contains a hundred thousand rooms and covers a thousand acres of land . |
| 5 | The closest to the truth will win a thousand dollars credit at their local Titancorp comics store , a Captain Haddock T-shirt and an all-expenses-paid holiday for two in balmy Beirut . |
| 6 | I went back to Batty Langley , who considered the gardens she designed a thousand times better than Versailles . |
| 7 | I want a thousand pounds to come through the door now . |
| 8 | Twenty years too late and they found a thousand ways to stop the rise of Hitler , it was the only way for them to keep sane , the survivors . |
| 9 | The nights grew colder , but in the early morning the rising sun was caught a thousand times in the droplets of moisture that formed in the webs that spiders wove across the bars of Creggan 's cage . |
| 10 | A woman who claims to be a leading sheep breeder has been fined a thousand pounds for cruelty . |
| 11 | ‘ And each bite probably contained a thousand calories . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Trevelyan has a thousand eyes , they say , ’ Ormond added . |
| 13 | Escorted by Francis Lee as a striker of Olympic-standard diving technique , ironically , the man who bluffed a thousand referees he brushed pokerfaced past the press corps suffering from an acute case of ref-induced parrot-sickness . |
| 14 | Central South is on board the British car which has eighteen days to tackle a thousand miles of some of the wildest countryside in the world … |
| 15 | Central South is on board the British car which has eighteen days to tackle a thousand miles of some of the wildest countryside in the world … |
| 16 | They might well have done a thousand years ago , but the Imperial Age converted that horizontal relationship into a vertical one so that Sri Lankan schools still teach vertical history ‘ Ceylon Under British Rule ’ and Senegal continues its cultural obsession with France . |
| 17 | If it 's done a thousand miles , you 'd get nine thousand five hundred and then cos of the mileage they 'd take off a thousand divided by ten , so they 'd take a hundred pounds off that . |
| 18 | This passage , he said , ‘ deserved a thousand thoughts ’ . |
| 19 | And if they do , are there still people like Chris Hunter to answer a thousand times a day : what have you got for a penny ? |
| 20 | If as the saying goes ‘ a picture says a thousand words ’ , this book is full to the brim and overflowing . |
| 21 | Er in actual fact it 's a ten year contract , you buy er a nine year annuity , and the first premium goes to the endowment when you put the money in so let's say we er put a thousand pounds in in the , the first year , and that fund 's on an , on an annual premium . |
| 22 | Let a thousand flowers bloom and all that … |
| 23 | ‘ Let a thousand devils take Hans Ebert . |
| 24 | Unfortunately , the Bill was vetoed by a Labour Whip although , since then , I note that , in The Guardian , the hon. Member for Blackburn ( Mr. Straw ) , who speaks for the Labour party on education , said : ’ Let a thousand league-tables bloom . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ In this way ’ he declared in 1895 , ‘ they would do a thousand times more good than by denouncing Roman Catholics , Unitarians or anyone else. , There were united missionary services and neighbourhood ‘ visitations ’ after which the names of those visited were passed on to a minister of their denomination . |
| 26 | Oversize exters bulging with weapons — an in the middle of em looking a thousand years old , Ten-huc himself . |
| 27 | ‘ We 've been on the road since yesterday morning and Patrick drove a thousand miles of that — mostly at a hundred and fifty m.p.h . |
| 28 | We often lost each other on the seven barges being pushed a thousand miles up the Zaire River , once Conrad 's Congo . |
| 29 | going for a that was brilliant I got and that , and I tried , I had a whole box of er , erm , thing is , when you hold a thousand rounds of ammunition , I got given about two thirds of this box all for myself , so I 'm there for about three hours before the exercise I had and then put the rest in the then we sat down for another hour filling them up again , superb , we had loads of bung in the windows grenades |
| 30 | It must have been said a thousand times in angling literature that location is the key to success and in zander fishing this was never more so . |