Example sentences of "have [verb] a thousand " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is no use telling a man who has received a thousand pounds a year in giro cheques that he has the means to better himself . |
| 2 | The closing of a station intangibly but significantly diminishes the spiritual life of a country and its people , for it brings down the curtain with devastating finality on a stage which has seen a thousand dramas , comic and tragic , played out and has mirrored the changing moods of the nation , has etched itself into the working lives of some , the emotional lives of others . |
| 3 | Intelligent and well researched , Morrissey escapes the naivety and hypocrisy that has brought a thousand young and earnest rock stars before him into the shallow waters of the plastic art form pop music so often is . |
| 4 | It has launched a thousand folk tales ; and now is proving a superb model for studying the hormones that control plant growth |
| 5 | And then she went in one day and she knew she 'd had a thousand and said can I extend it ? |
| 6 | Saying er , I was telling it the other day , she said you could spend all that money on and she said , we went to see this horse , it was years ago before they got their own , she said the horse had just had its foal and it was like he 'd spent a thousand pound on the , the actual stallion yeah and it come out |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ! |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | On a crude arithmetical basis if the same proportion of murders were carried out on the mainland of Britain in relation to the population we 'd have had a thousand dead in the past eight days . |
| 12 | Jeanette Howse of the Didcot Railway Centre explains that Kenneth 's popularity means they could have invited a thousand guests . |
| 13 | He must have waved a thousand times , and it was barely ten o'clock . |
| 14 | He must have taken a thousand pictures with people . |
| 15 | ‘ Because you have a face that might have launched a thousand ships . |
| 16 | The face of Helen of Troy is said to have launched a thousand ships , and the beauty of Cleopatra created havoc in the Roman Empire . |
| 17 | And the singing of birds I had heard a thousand times , thrushes , blackbirds in our London garden , I heard as if I had never heard them before . |
| 18 | Oh shit you 've won a thousand pounds |
| 19 | Now , I 've won a thousand pounds in the United Kingdom . |
| 20 | wants two more miles on my clock and I 've done a thousand mile on my . |
| 21 | We can make in our favour or we can easily make six thousand crackers favours and we 've made a thousand . |
| 22 | Yes but I 've got a thousand members in my , I 'm district secretary , I 've got a thousand members at least |
| 23 | Yes but I 've got a thousand members in my , I 'm district secretary , I 've got a thousand members at least |
| 24 | So we 've got a thousand |
| 25 | Right , we 've got a thousand and we 've got a hundred times Y , hundred times seventeen , okay . |
| 26 | So , you 've got a client who for whatever reason , is , is unable to er , afford the premiums , and providing they 've got a thousand pounds in the fund , they can elect to the , the plan made paid up , whereby the life cover is sustained by the fund and all the other charges , and it 's sustained until the fund runs dry . |
| 27 | I 've got a thousand and one things I have to do . |
| 28 | and then Ann started that little line trussing you see , so we 've done it between us but I 've got a thousand to do and she 's got about four d t |
| 29 | That seems to me , to need a lot of thinking about , because if you 've got difficult children , ra the last thing we want to do is think you 've got a thousand pound fine or so . |
| 30 | What I would be looking for there is that you 've got a council , I do n't know how many people there are , and you 've got a thousand plus tonnes of waste you know you 've got a waste mountain being produced . |