Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] in a [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ For the option , ’ Howard explained to Felicity , walking up and down the terrace , frowning seriously , with the setting sun flashing in a thousand windows of the city behind him , ‘ they 're paying … 30.000,00 . |
| 2 | From where he stood , Nuadu saw the slender , copper-haired Beech Naiad emerge from the murdered tree , her arms chopped to ribbons , her body maimed in a dozen places , the red-gold blood of the beech spurting from her . |
| 3 | The media are aware of this fact , and photographs of Hannah side by side with Her Ladyship featured in a hundred newspapers and more |
| 4 | The survey was based on an assessment of litter and dog fouling in a 500 metres circle round the parliament building . |
| 5 | The window was made of sugar glass , the substance adopted in a thousand movies to look like the real thing . |
| 6 | Since joining Cardiff , Walker has become an overnight success , scoring eight First Division tries in a dozen matches as the club have moved up from strugglers last season to table-toppers . |
| 7 | Kathy I should hate to live in the house my grandfather lived in a hundred years ago ! |
| 8 | NEWTOWN survived Saturday 's storm to collect more Furrows League points in a seven wickets home win over Acton Reynold . |
| 9 | Her face cracked in a thousand lines when she smiled . |
| 10 | Osgood was the same age as JTR and it is a pity that JTR did not continue northward from Gairloch and possibly meet this incredible man whose life and family chronicled in A Hundred Years in the Highlands gives such detailed insight into the times . |