Example sentences of "[pers pn] a thousand [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If I 've told you once I 've told you a thousand times , ’ he said , ‘ your catapults are for stoning the Brits — not for shooting sticky buds at me , right . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've told you a thousand times we ca n't afford it , or rather , I 'm not going to afford it . |
| 3 | ‘ Thank you a thousand times , Gabriel ! |
| 4 | ‘ Thank you , thank you a thousand times , ’ she said huskily . |
| 5 | ‘ Thank you a thousand times . ’ |
| 6 | After that — ’ he swore ‘ — if I 'd thought about you before we made love , afterwards I thought about you a thousand times more . |
| 7 | ‘ What would you do , ’ Wexford said to his wife , ‘ if I brought a young girl home and offered you a thousand pounds to let her stay ? ’ |
| 8 | It might cost you a thousand pounds if you live in a a huge detached house and in the back of building you 've got lots of rooms . |
| 9 | Even the smallest deviation can , as the Chinese say , ‘ lose you a thousand miles ’ . |
| 10 | The bells here are famous ; the clarion , ‘ We Greet Thee a Thousand Times ’ which is rung at midday was created by the clockmaker , P. Naumann in 1694 . |
| 11 | It 's costing them a thousand pounds per employee per year . |
| 12 | The members of the household , once they realised that their watches and jewellery were safe , ‘ asked them a thousand questions ’ about America , and , as the children 's governess later wrote ‘ they behaved with great civility ’ . |
| 13 | She belongs , surely , where he had seen her a thousand times as he came out of Happy Homes , just above the end pinnacle of the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel . |
| 14 | A male friend had tried to dissuade Hale from seeking a much needed job and had given her a thousand dollars to buy ‘ the most beautiful dress in New York ’ , telling her that what she needed was to find a rich husband . |
| 15 | They gave it a thousand letters they gave it money |
| 16 | It was a song she had known since she was a child and she 'd heard her mother sing it a thousand times . |
| 17 | You 've done it a thousand times already , but you do it again , just for something to do . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've told you about it a thousand times . ’ |
| 19 | So , when a movement is taught to you and you can not understand the meaning behind it , do it as directed , practising it a thousand times if necessary . |
| 20 | I have imagined it a thousand times and it was not like this . |
| 21 | Below it flows the Dorn , known to the Saxons as the Milk , from the cloudiness of its water after rain : and one still sees it as the Saxons saw it a thousand years ago , as I saw it a few minutes ago in the thin rain drifting down from the Cotswolds . |