Example sentences of "[noun] have [verb] a hundred [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | On the west , they said , the waves had ranged a hundred feet high up the cliffs , scouring the bird-ledges clean and breaking through bridges and tunnels of rock where no gap had existed before . |
2 | The Duttons had come a hundred years before to the long straggling village of Sherborne in the archaically beautiful Borne Valley , where Thomas Dutton had built the original house of Sherborne Park in 1551 . |
3 | He watched the young man 's face , now set in the sort of bored , practised , professional expression Grout had seen a hundred times before . |
4 | His behaviour , as the Victorian constitutionalist Walter Bagehot had noted a hundred years earlier , was the prerogative of princes . |
5 | Whose rev'rend Oaks have known a hundred Springs ; |