Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] a [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is no use telling a man who has received a thousand pounds a year in giro cheques that he has the means to better himself . |
| 2 | After it has travelled a hundred yards or so , it bivouacs . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The closing of a station intangibly but significantly diminishes the spiritual life of a country and its people , for it brings down the curtain with devastating finality on a stage which has seen a thousand dramas , comic and tragic , played out and has mirrored the changing moods of the nation , has etched itself into the working lives of some , the emotional lives of others . |
| 5 | It has opened a dozen shops with an intriguing new concept — pile it high and sell it cheap — and plans a chain of 200 . |
| 6 | ‘ He has run a million miles for us this season and will run another million , ’ he said . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The council which owns the pool needs to save a million pounds , because it 's been charge capped by the government . |
| 9 | Brenda Campbell says to ride a 100 miles on a horse is quite something in itself but to ride it at a fast pace and be able to get off is semothing else and it 's the best thing you can do with a horse |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Cram , who hopes to win a 1500 metres place in Barcelona , won by a comfortable five seconds . |
| 12 | And he says there was sixty , he says , he says he 's seen a hundred horses standing to get shod on a morning . |
| 13 | If it 's done a thousand miles , you 'd get nine thousand five hundred and then cos of the mileage they 'd take off a thousand divided by ten , so they 'd take a hundred pounds off that . |
| 14 | The kite string is making an angle of forty degrees there and it 's got a hundred metres of the line payed out . |
| 15 | But he he 's got a two lines on one phone |
| 16 | It 's the richest black African country and Kano 's got a million inhabitants . |
| 17 | it 's still the first one , she 's got a billion things to do , we 'll obviously speak to her in the autumn , erm |
| 18 | He said she 's got a ten pounds bonus because I paid for the . |