Example sentences of "[vb infin] a million [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do you enter a big competition , and you could win a million pounds plus six . |
| 2 | He can still smell a million dollars when it 's within reach . |
| 3 | We could do with a call anybody there anyone 's near a phone just pick it up and ring me all right just ring now I 'll give erm we 'll give a million pounds to the first caller fingers crossed . |
| 4 | Alex had thought more than once that he would run a million miles if his She showed any interest . |
| 5 | The high society platinum beauty brought up in a secluded hot-house may look a million dollars on the show stand , but is all too liable to fall flat on her face at the first pinprick of adversity and does not stand a chance unless she is cocooned in protective sprays . |
| 6 | The new show-stopper may look a million dollars on the show bench and the exhibition stand , but be of little value in your garden . |
| 7 | ‘ How can you look a million dollars , be so terrifically successful in business — and yet your personal life seem to be in such a mess ? ’ |
| 8 | One of the things that came across was that the average sixteen year old leaving school this year in the U K will spend a million pounds in their lifetime . |
| 9 | I 'm not making a million dollars a performance , but I do damn well , and I do n't think people should make a million dollars for a film . |
| 10 | What I needed was a solid holder that would n't let pencils bend or break , and a retainer that would expand and contract a million times . |
| 11 | It would take a million years to tell you all the things I have done , and some of the things I would n't tell even you , ’ she said mischievously , ‘ but it 's great to be home . |
| 12 | Though the adult worms are never numerous , they are very fecund , and an infected pig may pass a million eggs per day . |
| 13 | I 'd walk a million miles with Beefy |
| 14 | The council must save a million pounds after being charge capped by the Government . |
| 15 | And do n't let a million postcards tell you otherwise . |
| 16 | While Ipswich are one game away from the National League title , Chelmsford are one place away from relegation to the Second Division but when it comes to March 28 the league will seem a million miles away and both sides will have their sights set firmly on a semi-final place . |
| 17 | Intel Japan says worldwide sales of i960 chips should exceed a million units this year with US market research Instat forecasting the part will have the largest RISC processor market share this year . |
| 18 | If you are not eligible to be put in if you do n't have a motor car then you 're discounting an enormous number of people who may have motorcycles or motor caravans or , you know , something which is perfectly valid but it invalidates the information that you think you are getting out of the file because you only put in certain perfectly reasonable , groups of er of things and i in , in , in Boots there 's a , there 's a er there 's a a wonderful expression or actually is , is the one I 'm particularly thinking about , you know we , we sell shall we say a million bottles of aspirin a year , it is in fact considerably more than that , and that is perfectly reasonable and valid and mm but in the definition of that we obviously only included what Boots the Chemists sold because that 's all the people who |