Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been [verb] [prep] hundreds " in BNC.
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| 1 | She said she had been threatened with hundreds of pickets if she did not reinstate Miss Owen . |
| 2 | He really did n't think the Revolution was anything more than a few peasants kicking up a fuss , like they had been doing for hundreds of years . |
| 3 | ‘ I do not wish to be hard upon poor people in great affliction ; but I can not help thinking that they have been doing for hundreds of years past something very like what the Bible calls ‘ tempting God' ’ — staking their property and their lives upon the chances or no earthquakes coming , while they ought to have known that an earthquake might come an day . ’ |
| 4 | He had been selected from hundreds of applicants with stars in their eyes by producer Harry Adair , and was due to appear at the Broadcasting House auditions on Saturday . |
| 5 | My stomach feels like it 's been kicked by hundreds of yobs wearing hob-nailed boots . ’ |
| 6 | It 's been happening for hundreds of years . |