Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] [art] hundred " in BNC.
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| 1 | He would count slowly to a hundred . |
| 2 | but Bob and I did , I could , I could remember the day we moved in to a hundred and eleven er we 'd never , never been upstairs in a house before you see we 'd been brought up in a bungalow and we 'd never ever been upstairs and the thoughts of going upstairs to bed , you know , was fantastic |
| 3 | Like thoroughbred horses chafing at their bits before an important race , they are liable at any moment to sprint off at a hundred miles an hour in the wrong direction . |
| 4 | So if I wanted to find out erm Let's do that one with the the N H S , and this time I want to know how much it 's going to be It starts off at a hundred pounds . |
| 5 | ’ It would n't be an overstatement to say we 've carried near on a hundred tons of material of one sort or another up this driveway to our house , whereas it could have been done in a couple of days with permission to drive up . ’ |
| 6 | I was to do the counting — up to a hundred ( I could n't count up to a hundred , I had to do it in tens ) and when I opened my eyes he 'd have disappeared . |
| 7 | Such approaches , of course , were ordinarily difficult to resist , for a house never knew when royal gratitude might be of value to it in some application of its own or in some lawsuit ; a number of larger houses , like Bury St Edmunds in 1303 , even found themselves accommodating more than one royal corrodian ; furthermore , the recipients of these requests ranged far outside the hundred or so houses of which the king was patron . |
| 8 | And I just said , I 'm not walking around with a hundred and fifty quids worth of money . |
| 9 | The revolution in New Testament scholarship which had come about during the hundred years before he wrote The Problem of Pain appears to have passed him by . |
| 10 | In a corner of the Salon Imperial of the Hotel Intercontinental , Paris , Harriet Varna braced her back against a statuesque pillar and looked steadily into the viewfinder of her camera , concentrating on her subjects so fiercely that she was almost oblivious to the electric atmosphere that surrounded her , bouncing off the Viennese décor and the sumptuous rococo ceiling along with the heat and the light as the models of the House of Saint Laurent moved gracefully along the hundred yards of catwalk to display the new season 's couture collection . |
| 11 | It was only when I was actually up there and the music had stopped , and I found myself looking down at a hundred or so expectant faces , that I remembered the magnitude of the task in front of me . |
| 12 | It has a price tag of twelve thousand pounds … and its maker hopes to sell up to a hundred machines a year . |
| 13 | Supposed to be saving up to a hundred quid ! |
| 14 | We receive up to a hundred and forty week |
| 15 | All done then at a hundred and forty pounds , standing at the back , one fifty one sixty one seventy , one eighty one eighty standing , any more at one eighty ? |
| 16 | All done then at a hundred and seventy , one eighty seated , one ninety two hundred , two twenty , forty two sixty two hundred and sixty pounds , any more at two sixty ? |
| 17 | I shall sell then , one seventy new bidder one seventy on the aisle , now any more at a hundred and seventy , one eighty one eighty at the back again , all done then at a hundred and eighty pounds . |
| 18 | At a hundred pounds , all done then at a hundred and ten , twenty one thirty , one forty fifty , one sixty seventy , one eighty one eighty with me , it 's , any more at one eighty ? |
| 19 | All done then at a hundred and sixty pounds at the back . |
| 20 | It was the Friday after the twelfth was always the gatheri Glen Ayloch gathering and is yet , and is going on for a hundred and s something year a hundred and What did I we say a hundred and twenty years since it was started I think . |
| 21 | Still hurrying along at a hundred miles an hour he leaned over towards me and lowered his voice . |
| 22 | A plant that may only flower once in a hundred years but grows at up to seven inches a day is catching on with gardeners . |
| 23 | But these are stars of the first order , which are barely produced once in a hundred years . |
| 24 | Plus that they add up to a hundred and eighty . |
| 25 | Well that 's so you can work out , erm , if you if you look at any two numbers they add up to a hundred and eighty , |
| 26 | Add up to a hundred and eighty degrees . |
| 27 | Add up to a hundred and eighty degrees . |
| 28 | Cos these are these three add up to a hundred and eighty . |
| 29 | These three add up to a hundred and eighty . |
| 30 | Very important for the physics , because what 's happening at that point as far as the physics is concerned , when the acceleration is zero , not , think of a racing car accelerating up to top speed , down the straight and it just ca n't go any faster , it 's got up to a hundred and eighty miles an hour , and it 's |