Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] a [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | We got about a hundred napkins upstairs . |
| 2 | Then Swindon asked for a million pounds , Chelsea offered nothing , and Hoddle was valued at a maximum of 175 thousand pounds . |
| 3 | It involved about a dozen groups and a network of experts throughout Europe and is the largest future study of biotechnology that I am aware of . |
| 4 | Crooked stove-pipe chimneys sprouted from a hundred roofs , and families could be seen talking animatedly in rows of caravan windows . |
| 5 | Anton , in this cubicle , stuck time , it seemed as a hundred years , the boy ; he was surprised how innocent , trusting — for he saw it all so clearly now , Parker 's mask — he once had been . |
| 6 | It seemed like a thousand years had lapsed since ‘ Meat Is Murder ’ and how refreshing it was , how exciting to place the record clumsily on the turntable for the first time to be faced with the full frontal body blow that is the title track . |
| 7 | She dozed and woke , dozed and woke and finally fell into a light sleep , only stirring when she heard a voice addressing her from what seemed like a million miles away . |
| 8 | Melanie opened her eyes and saw thorns among roses , as if she woke from a hundred years ' night , la belle au bois dormante , imprisoned in a century 's steadily burgeoning garden . |
| 9 | Tall and strong , with very broad shoulders , he would go on to claim 202 victims at 25 from his 47 Tests , of which 50 came in a dozen games against England . |
| 10 | For an instant its bright light glistened on a thousand shades of wet green leaves . |
| 11 | In the 1930s accommodation consisted of a thousand beds in twelve hotels . |
| 12 | And he paid over a thousand pounds for it . |
| 13 | Full marks to Wallace , who finished with a seven feet putt for a 73 after almost holing his tee shot , a four iron , at the short 14th . |
| 14 | In August 1828 , after a small exchange of fire , Monteiro landed with a thousand troops under Colonel José António de Azevedo Lemos . |
| 15 | He found a fossilised head which belonged to a 10 feet long scorpion . |
| 16 | Kathy I should hate to live in the house my grandfather lived in a hundred years ago ! |
| 17 | Until they got within a hundred yards , |
| 18 | I lost about a hundred relatives in Auschwitz . ’ |
| 19 | We hit about a hundred miles per hour minimum within seconds and hold it . |
| 20 | Lurgan cruised to a five wickets victory over CYM at Terenure . |
| 21 | Richard made the gown I wore to meet Charles and Di at the premiere for The Living Daylights and I felt like a million dollars in it . ’ |
| 22 | The 28-year-old graphic artist , who won the event three years ago , eased into a five metres lead at the first kilometre mark and only Heaton veteran Geraldine Beedle managed to stay close . |
| 23 | In the intricate weave of the universe , his was the golden strand , and his sisters ' was dross , part of the vast lumpen-knot of the ordinary , the confined mortal mass that bred and died on a million worlds like some foetid yeast in order to ferment a spirit such as his , a spirit which a God-Emperor could sip . |
| 24 | ‘ I want to see the return of the Yorkshire Ridings and the abolition of Humberside and Cleveland so that Yorkshire can again stretch from the Humber to the Tees as it did for a thousand years before 1974 , ’ said Mr Sykes . |
| 25 | ‘ I want to see the return of the Yorkshire Ridings and the abolition of Humberside and Cleveland so that Yorkshire can again stretch from the Humber to the Tees as it did for a thousand years before 1974 , ’ said Mr Sykes . |
| 26 | Ten minutes later in the gymnasium downstairs Lee reflected that if she threw one of the dumb-bells she was using at the wall-sized mirror and it shattered into a hundred pieces around a central trauma , she would wake herself up and everybody around her and get into the local papers . |
| 27 | Its co-founder and leading spirit is an Afrikaner farmer , Mr Dirk Mudge , who foresaw by a dozen years that his people would need allies for survival , and broke away from the whites-only Nationalist party to find black and brown ones . |
| 28 | The hearings ran for a hundred days during the summer and autumn of 1977 . |
| 29 | If I waited for a hundred years , if I devoted my life to fasting and asceticism and scholarship as the Druids do , still it would make no difference . |
| 30 | I said about a million times . |