Example sentences of "be [verb] a [adj] [noun pl] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I thought you told me you 'd be getting a hundred guineas a time if you were a television personality , John ? ’ said Bob . |
| 2 | Is this man being paid a million dollars a year for a driving technique which is dispensed by every BSM instructor ? |
| 3 | The Guatemalan army was launching a scorched earth policy , which laid waste to hundreds of Indian villages ; in El Salvador , the death squads were dumping a thousand bodies a month on the streets ; in Nicaragua , the Contra war was just beginning to put the Sandinista revolution into reverse . |
| 4 | Okay he 's doing a hundred miles an hour . |
| 5 | I feel that this is a difficult poem to understand but when it has been read a few times the meaning becomes clear . |
| 6 | As for Selene , she was left a hundred pounds a year so long as she continued under her sister 's direction . |
| 7 | Oh it did n't look like it was making a hundred miles an hour anyway |
| 8 | He had taught the bird to pronounce the name of his lost love , and this name was repeated a hundred times a day . |