Example sentences of "have [verb] a hundred " in BNC.
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| 1 | After it has travelled a hundred yards or so , it bivouacs . |
| 2 | Although it achieved sales of £65 million in the last financial year , it has shed a hundred and twenty of its six hundred staff . |
| 3 | Sara Keays , the former mistress of the former Conservative Party Chairman , Cecil Parkinson , has won a hundred and five thousand pounds libel damages from a magazine in the High Court . |
| 4 | A chain of kitchenware shops has made a hundred and twenty people redundant and called in the administraors because of financial difficulties . |
| 5 | A mother has offered a hundred pound reward to catch the man who shot her ten year old son in the head with an air rifle . |
| 6 | It has taken a hundred and forty years to build a graduate profession . |
| 7 | Scientists have discovered a possible dinosaur nesting area , and an egg which has survived a hundred and forty five million years intact . |
| 8 | The King of Saudi Arabia has donated a hundred and fifty thousand pounds to Laura Davies , the four-year-old girl who needs a bowel and liver transplant to save her life . |
| 9 | If I found you 'd won a hundred thousand pound I 'd kidnap you ! |
| 10 | He 'd seen a hundred funerals . |
| 11 | Before he 'd gone a hundred yards Joseph saw a burly French colon cuff an Annamite coolie roughly about the head at the curbside after descending from his pousse-pousse . |
| 12 | She said if you went out alone in a tight skirt you were black and blue before you 'd gone a hundred yards . |
| 13 | this is the story of my life now in the bathroom I have had , I have had to pay a hundred pounds to Mr Butcher the plumber to put in a new shower thing because that was cheap and rough and eventually wore out should never have been put in . |
| 14 | It is not to be wondered at if , when a request is made of one person , another is obliged by a trust : for if the following is written in a will ‘ I ask you , Titius , having received a hundred to manumit that slave ’ or ‘ to give something to Sempronius ’ , certainly it is not adequately expressed , but a trust must all the same be understood to be charged on the heir to pay the money to Titius : and so Titius himself will sue the heir , and will be compelled to give freedom to the slave or to Sempronius what he was asked to . |
| 15 | I might as well have had that shower , she thought drily ; at least I would have felt a hundred times more human . |
| 16 | The phrase , which was one she must have used a hundred times to visiting parishioners in ordinary times , took on a poignant inadequacy in the context of the murder of her husband . |
| 17 | ‘ You could have had a hundred casual affairs , and I 'd have adjusted to them somehow and tried to make you fall in love with me , but the thought that you 'd loved someone else and still loved him , because it seemed to have gone on over the years , periodically resumed … |
| 18 | If they do n't , they say they 'll have to sack a hundred and fifty teachers , although one MP says they should sack council staff instead . |
| 19 | And each team 'll have to do a hundred |
| 20 | Now the Child Support Agency says he 'll have to pay a hundred pounds a week . |
| 21 | She would have passed a hundred breathalysers . ’ |
| 22 | Between the Arch and the back of the Admiralty proper runs a small unnamed side-street which I must have passed a hundred times without really noticing . |
| 23 | Though it was holding weekly meetings in the 1920s it was no new group , having started a hundred years previously in a London coffee house where members met to discuss debtors and exchange information about how best to deal with bad payers . |
| 24 | He must have questioned a hundred people but none could remember seeing the green car . |
| 25 | She had perhaps a few spoonfuls of oil ; she was told to pour those minute contents of her jar into jars that might have held a hundred times as much as she had . |
| 26 | The slave trade may be considered , like the fabulous hydra , to have had a hundred heads , every one of which it was necessary to cut off before it could be subdued . |
| 27 | ‘ Somebody seems to have scored a hundred runs and been the hero of the school . ’ |
| 28 | Because if you achieve a hundred percent of what 's in your plan , there 's always a danger that they could 've achieved a hundred and ten percent of what was in your plan and have n't been working hard . |
| 29 | You 're unemployed I would n't have thought you could 've stood a hundred and fifty , two hundred pounds withdrawal . |
| 30 | Yeah , we with this been ongoing , we 've given a hundred and fifty pounds to it , erm , well I say I do n't see it on the top one . |