Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] a million [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Soviet-American joint venture ‘ 21st-Century Technologies ’ has given a million roubles and a truckful of restoration materials has arrived in Moscow , courtesy of the Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt . |
| 2 | Based on the Teesside Development Corporation 's ‘ renaissance ’ project along the river banks and old docklands , the museum is expected to attract a million visitors a year from its opening in 1995 . |
| 3 | ‘ He has run a million miles for us this season and will run another million , ’ he said . |
| 4 | Clark was eager to play in tonight 's Anglo-Italian tie against Leicester at St James 's Park but boss Keegan said : ‘ Lee has run a million miles for us this season . |
| 5 | The council which owns the pool needs to save a million pounds , because it 's been charge capped by the government . |
| 6 | The churn rate is now down to eleven percent , the result of positive action that we 've taken there and we expect to add a million homes during this year and the cable audience I am pleased to say is growing still very very slowly er but that should help as well . |
| 7 | A dairy farmer from Stirlingshire has begun a million pound action against a chemical company he claims ruined his herd . |
| 8 | They were n't interested in her war story , they 'd heard a million war stories . |
| 9 | It was a movement she 'd made a million times before , yet as soon as her fingers came into contact with his thick , silky hair she felt a jolt as though an electric current had shot right through her , making her start back in surprise . |
| 10 | Jessica probably knew ten times more about these things than she did , she 'd had a million times more experience , at any rate . |
| 11 | A trumpet arrives offering a million ducats and freedom : I 'm not going to surrender when I know I 'm going to win anyway — or at least get supplies to hang on until something happens to Zacco . |
| 12 | you 're going to get a million pounds . |
| 13 | He says you have to be realistic and who 's going to pay a million pounds for a player who 's thirty in october . |
| 14 | Overly euphoric notions inside the company that it 's going to move a million units in the next year ‘ ai n't gon na happen , ’ he said . |
| 15 | To simply say to the public we are going to spend a million pound on traffic calming is downright irresponsible and this . |
| 16 | We 've had to make a million pounds savings this last year . |
| 17 | Your change of hairstyle may be a significant step in beginning to look a million dollars ! |
| 18 | IT 'S a feat that his circus act father would have made a million bucks from , but how could Mr Major-Ball have foreseen that everything little John touched would turn into 100% pure horse-dung ? |
| 19 | But on a rainy March afternoon in 1988 it must have seemed a million miles from home . |
| 20 | We might even be able to evolve an exact reconstruction of a dodo by selectively breeding pigeons , though we 'd have to live a million years in order to complete the experiment . |
| 21 | And we accept that there is no magic wand which can be waved to provide a million jobs overnight . |
| 22 | And people are making much of the fact the Apple 's John Sculley said he expects to sell a million PowerPC Macs next year . |
| 23 | Has anyone rung up and told me I 've won a million pounds ? |
| 24 | ‘ Cheers , ’ said Bunny , pocketing the mat as he had done a million others , though the phone numbers on them were not usually trombonists . |
| 25 | ‘ I was looking at him like I had done a million times and suddenly I saw his shoulder twitch slightly , ’ she said . |
| 26 | You know you 've got a million people and you 're just looking after a thousand , maybe more . |
| 27 | I 've got a million people screaming down the line for you . |
| 28 | Her books Married Love and Wise Parenthood , published with difficulty in 1917 and 1918 , had sold a million copies by World War II . |
| 29 | Within two weeks the Allies had put a million men into France . |
| 30 | Collectively known as Bedazzled , they 've signed a million pound contract with one of the biggest record companies in the world . |