Example sentences of "[pers pn] [art] hundred [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Child , I tell you a hundred times and you do n't hear me yet . |
| 2 | I have meant to write to you a hundred times during the last three weeks but at all hours of the day I have been busied with teaching and beating and supervising footballings until when at last after all the animals were caged up and I at last had some peace , I have been too sad & too weary to write anything . |
| 3 | if you 've got one line making you money and you 've got a hundred lines , a hundred lines is gon na make you a hundred times more , do , do you see what I mean ? |
| 4 | Lot number sixty seven Lot sixty seven is another one there we are , that one showing for you a hundred pounds for this , and ten , twenty , at one hundred and thirty , forty one hundred and forty is bid and selling for one hundred and forty pounds , anybody else at one for one fifty , one sixty going on sir ? |
| 5 | I may have to send you a hundred miles to Aberdeen . |
| 6 | You know , I bet you a hundred dollars you wo n't sleep with me . |
| 7 | Once she saw , sitting on the pavement before a café , drinking pale green drinks , and embracing , leaning over from their plastic chairs towards each other and embracing , the most beautiful couple ; the man with a face angular and ravaged and tragic , the girl dark and thin , with pale lips in a dark tan face : and she was so moved that she said , aloud to Rosie who was walking with her , " Look , Oh God , look at those lovely people " : and Rosie looked and stared and laughed and said , " Good Lord , what odd ideas you have , I would n't look like that if you gave me a hundred pounds . " |
| 8 | Let's say erm we forget about all that ten pound early and you owed me a hundred pounds , right , and I say erm forget that , just , just take it away , forget it it 's gone , you 're a hundred pounds better off . |
| 9 | I looked wildly about me a hundred times , unable to think what to do ; then I threw my coat on over my nightdress , pulled woollen socks over the wool trousers I wore to protect me from the cold , and ran to the door , without listening to what his friend was trying to say to me . |
| 10 | And from this time I knew I had to give up so many things — my sailing and so on — but the music came back to me a hundred times better . |
| 11 | ‘ Give me a hundred men … ’ |
| 12 | John Wesley said : ‘ Give me a hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin , and desire nothing but God , and I care not a straw whether they be clergymen or laymen . |
| 13 | Rubberneck knew them all , pious lives ; he had been lectured them a hundred times , even if he still could not fix a face to a saint , or only ( he felt an affinity ) St Francis . |
| 14 | Eventually a noise abatement notice was served on them , and erm immediately after that the landlord offered them a hundred pounds to leave , and they left . |
| 15 | And if he excites himself — distrust him a hundred times more . |
| 16 | ‘ Because Father is a tired old man I have spared him a hundred times , and tolerated things which are little short of intolerable . |
| 17 | " You may invite him a hundred times , " said Honor tightly , " but I will never marry him . " |
| 18 | She could believe that this was the creature that had floated inside her — yes , like a starry astronaut in his liquid capsule , attached to his red life-support cable — she had pored over photographs of embryos and imagined him a hundred times . |
| 19 | The essay , on ‘ The Dangers of Smoking ’ , had cost Hank a number of Sundays of hard work , and he estimated that he must have smoked at least eight packs of cigarettes while writing it , but to his astonishment it had won him a hundred dollars . |
| 20 | K. R. I 've moved on people sleeping rough — perhaps take him a hundred yards from the shop wherever he was — ‘ On your way . |
| 21 | The wind was taken out of her sails in the first two minutes when Oswin handed her a hundred pounds . |
| 22 | And the very fact that the experience will never ever be repeated will make the remembrance burn for her a hundred times as bright . |
| 23 | I used to think it bad enough parting from you , but now I feel it a hundred times worse . |
| 24 | They squealed with delight as though they had n't heard it a hundred times before . |
| 25 | Except to myself , I 've said it a hundred times to myself . " |
| 26 | You 've done it a hundred times before . ’ |
| 27 | He had said it a hundred times over the past blissful hour together , and each time the sound of it had been even sweeter . |
| 28 | That 's right I know , but see this is , you see this is the point I 'm trying to make to you , you can quite happily do it in your own way , but the problem is you do n't know what you 're doing , right , and , and if you actually knew what you were doing and well aware of what you 're doing you would do it a hundred times better and you would do it all the time , right |
| 29 | The Ferrari was on the ideal line for the bend , Brett Lunger came through , struck it and pushed it a hundred yards down the track where it burst into flames . |
| 30 | So shall we change it make it a hundred miles an hour . |