Example sentences of "[prep] a thousand [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Disturbingly brutal and unashamedly cold , ‘ Naive ’ is the blown out of proportion result of a thousand petty squabbles between a whole welter of influences who have little or nothing in common . |
| 2 | Disturbingly brutal and unashamedly cold , ‘ Naive ’ is the blown out of proportion result of a thousand petty squabbles between a whole welter of influences who have little or nothing in common . |
| 3 | Out of a thousand possible illustrations of this point one might cite the testimony of William Smith the nineteenth-century publisher , on his first reading of the manuscript of Charlotte Bronte 's Jane Eyre . |
| 4 | A CHEMICAL firm was fined £50,000 yesterday after people nearby in Houston , Texas , said it smelt like a thousand dirty socks in a gym . |
| 5 | ‘ If love was crime , ’ said Alex , ‘ I 'd ask for a thousand similar offences to be taken into consideration . ’ |
| 6 | She felt that she was falling and falling , that her body would fly apart with a thousand hurting pieces at any moment . |
| 7 | And waking suddenly like that , you woke in a thousand different places at once , all the places that you 'd ever been . |
| 8 | I do n't know what 's going to happen , so , Carrie , I must say it — I 've implied it in a thousand different ways for months now — I … |