Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] a hundred " in BNC.

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1 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
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 And I just said , I 'm not walking around with a hundred and fifty quids worth of money .
6 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 .
7 It has a price tag of twelve thousand pounds … and its maker hopes to sell up to a hundred machines a year .
8 Supposed to be saving up to a hundred quid !
9 We receive up to a hundred and forty week
10 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 .
11 Still hurrying along at a hundred miles an hour he leaned over towards me and lowered his voice .
12 Plus that they add up to a hundred and eighty .
13 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 ,
14 Add up to a hundred and eighty degrees .
15 Add up to a hundred and eighty degrees .
16 Cos these are these three add up to a hundred and eighty .
17 These three add up to a hundred and eighty .
18 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
19 But I 'm , but I 'm sure it 'd got up to a hundred and something pounds .
20 Had to go up to a hundred .
21 Now what I ca n't explain why , is that he starts with thirty two , now whether he sort of gets muddled up with the sort of the system of something I do n't know , but for some reason best known to himself , he starts with thirty two , and the continuum goes up to a hundred and sixty .
22 The single person 's allowance goes up by a hundred and eighty pounds .
23 Tonight she would far rather have been getting on with a hundred and one other things , but conscience had dictated that she must get the books finished first .
24 Well you must be getting on for a hundred , because I believe you were in the Boar War , were n't you ?
25 The family gets by on a hundred and sixty pounds a week from social security and family allowance payments .
26 It goes back for a hundred years or more .
27 At CBS , where she worked for eight years , she remembers up to a hundred tapes pouring into the office each week .
28 The fur seal may have up to a hundred , but the Hamadryas makes do with only a handful .
29 I abandoned the effort to count up to a hundred , sensing that brightly coloured biochemicals were jiggling together on the page .
30 So let's look at one of , let's look at the one that Kelly 's working on there where she 's got fifty pounds shared out between a hundred and fifty people .
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