Example sentences of "[verb] [det] a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got half a dozen drunks and three women dressed as Mother Christmas and put them on a truck and we drove round the West End on the busiest shopping day of the year playing loud jazz and bunging up the traffic . |
| 2 | Sanctions can not possibly ‘ work ’ in the time he can allow for maintaining half a million men in combat readiness thousands of miles from home and for keeping his public opinion with him . |
| 3 | and granddad Pat was saying that there 's , Steven Fry on the telly he was , he was saying he made , ha I think he said he made half a million pounds out of something and he was , he says I 'd like to join go into parliament as a Labour thing , granddad says oh that 'll be really sensible , he said you 'll loose half of that money if you do that |
| 4 | It 's a rare character who commits murder in order to lose half a million pounds . |
| 5 | They only had to miss half a dozen meals and they started to complain . |
| 6 | Investment in canals and inland waterways peaked at around £1 million per annum in the canal mania of the 1790s , while outlay on the steady expansion and improvement of turnpiked roads averaged half a million pounds between 1760 and 1810 and thereafter doubled to £1 million . |
| 7 | If you repeat this a few times , you may well notice more tension on the second or third occasion . |
| 8 | Philips Car Systems in Bicester supplies stereo equipment to the truck company and could loose half a million pounds worth of trade if it collapses . |
| 9 | Stoke are still demanding half a million pounds with Celtic offering eighty-five thousand . |
| 10 | The centre cost half a million pounds , and will treat up to fifty people . |
| 11 | In front of this woman , under any normal circumstances , she would have dropped half a dozen years , for she knew she did not look her age . |
| 12 | First of all , I want you to write down , the first words that come into your mind , the first say half a dozen words that come into your mind when you think about stress . |
| 13 | But the company accepts in effect it has just five weeks to find half a million pounds . |
| 14 | Since 1919 , great armies of faceless conifers have stamped their way across the highlands and the lowlands , Sitka spruce now covers half a million hectares and makes up 52 per cent of conifers planted by the Forestry Commission in Scotland and Wales . |
| 15 | The Pru has half a million motorists on its books and is sending them each a booklet when their policies are renewed explaining the benefits of conversion . |
| 16 | It says it has half a dozen ports of packages to GL from large software house which will be released for PX/Iris GL users within three months — it 'll also help smaller firms without its marketing muscle bring their applications to market under PX/Iris GL , which is priced at £3,250 for a development licence — £320 for a run-time version . |
| 17 | I mean you get a bus coming as far as Road and back I do n't suppose it has half a dozen folks on what 's this thing coming up here , nobody I 'd er I 've walked into Walsall all my life and but gradually the whole thing changes does n't it , and then the thing gets off as far as West Bromwich , and in , then , then there 's through traffic and then how far and the Green 's not big enough to take the turn around up Road then they change the direction , and it 's all done on bit by bit by bit and so Green 's got eroded it 's er |
| 18 | Finally , she cajoled half a dozen men to help her break into the jail . |
| 19 | He found half a dozen handkerchiefs and a green silk scarf . |
| 20 | He found half a dozen fishermen seated under the palm trees at the foot of the Co-operative quay . |
| 21 | Branson could spend ten times as much money signing half a dozen acts and never achieve the same effect . |
| 22 | They want half a million pounds to fund a 10 year research programme . |
| 23 | Of course they , do , course they do , well you wo n't get the passing trade where people want half a dozen shirts |
| 24 | But Rick Christie , a golf professional in Tampa , Florida , and a friend of Levi 's , said not too long ago that he should win half a dozen tournaments with his consistent swing . |
| 25 | I 've done that a few times back home and , although you 're nowhere near full throttle , you can still have an influence on those around you . |
| 26 | I 've done that a few times with Ju ai n't I ? |
| 27 | It 'll light half a million homes by the end of the year . |
| 28 | ‘ You ca n't do half a dozen pages of dialogue if you 're pissed , ’ said Reed . |
| 29 | The cause for the closure … arsonists who early last Sunday week set fire to a pile of books in the main school building causing half a million pounds worth of damage . |
| 30 | The two special instrument systems , costing half a million pounds , are to be supplied to the Japanese Atomic Energy Research Institute at Tokai Mura . |