Example sentences of "[pers pn] a [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | yours a two litre ? |
| 2 | ‘ If I 've told you once I 've told you a thousand times , ’ he said , ‘ your catapults are for stoning the Brits — not for shooting sticky buds at me , right . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've told you a thousand times we ca n't afford it , or rather , I 'm not going to afford it . |
| 4 | ‘ Thank you a thousand times , Gabriel ! |
| 5 | ‘ Thank you , thank you a thousand times , ’ she said huskily . |
| 6 | ‘ Thank you a thousand times . ’ |
| 7 | After that — ’ he swore ‘ — if I 'd thought about you before we made love , afterwards I thought about you a thousand times more . |
| 8 | ‘ What would you do , ’ Wexford said to his wife , ‘ if I brought a young girl home and offered you a thousand pounds to let her stay ? ’ |
| 9 | It might cost you a thousand pounds if you live in a a huge detached house and in the back of building you 've got lots of rooms . |
| 10 | Even the smallest deviation can , as the Chinese say , ‘ lose you a thousand miles ’ . |
| 11 | Falstaff is forcibly returned to prose , ‘ knapp 'd o'th'coxcomb ’ by verse , and subsides to his own level : ‘ Master Shallow , I owe you a thousand pound ’ . |
| 12 | I give you a hundred back |
| 13 | ‘ Child , I tell you a hundred times and you do n't hear me yet . |
| 14 | I have meant to write to you a hundred times during the last three weeks but at all hours of the day I have been busied with teaching and beating and supervising footballings until when at last after all the animals were caged up and I at last had some peace , I have been too sad & too weary to write anything . |
| 15 | if you 've got one line making you money and you 've got a hundred lines , a hundred lines is gon na make you a hundred times more , do , do you see what I mean ? |
| 16 | Lot number sixty seven Lot sixty seven is another one there we are , that one showing for you a hundred pounds for this , and ten , twenty , at one hundred and thirty , forty one hundred and forty is bid and selling for one hundred and forty pounds , anybody else at one for one fifty , one sixty going on sir ? |
| 17 | I think it 'll you a hundred CC or a a of |
| 18 | I may have to send you a hundred miles to Aberdeen . |
| 19 | You know , I bet you a hundred dollars you wo n't sleep with me . |
| 20 | I agree with you a hundred percent we should try to overcome the problem of lending of that overcome the problems overcome the problems that evolve |
| 21 | So if someone had come up to you , and said , Well look , you you bet three pound , to have a go and if you get a four aces , I 'll give you a million pound , then it 's worth it . |
| 22 | If your father is a millionaire and gives you a five pound note for your birthday , then you might feel a little hard done by ; such a gift would be given out of his riches ; it would n't be according to his riches . |
| 23 | And they 'll give you a one year warrantee . |
| 24 | Tell your family and friends about York 's great service , and when we receive their first order , we 'll send you a 24 exposure York film absolutely FREE . |
| 25 | Well then I ca n't believe that any garage would , would refuse to give you a ten piece for their own machine . |
| 26 | ‘ I 've told you a dozen times . |
| 27 | I 've told you a dozen times — I wo n't have him . " |
| 28 | ‘ You find you a 40 gallon drum , chop the top out with a hammer and cold chisel , turn it over and make four big holes with the pointed end of a pickaxe . |
| 29 | When you think of the work that the old grocer used to have to do you know , make you a three corner bag out of a bit of paper , to put a pennyworth of pepper in . |
| 30 | The bells here are famous ; the clarion , ‘ We Greet Thee a Thousand Times ’ which is rung at midday was created by the clockmaker , P. Naumann in 1694 . |