Example sentences of "be [vb pp] a [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean I had no idea that by doing ‘ I left no ring with her ’ by Viola I was doing something that must have been heard a hundred times that day — I had no idea . |
| 2 | The club 's former accountant Vince Farrar has been given a six months suspended sentence . |
| 3 | The judge said he 'd already been punished a thousand times . |
| 4 | A woman who claims to be a leading sheep breeder has been fined a thousand pounds for cruelty . |
| 5 | It must have been said a thousand times in angling literature that location is the key to success and in zander fishing this was never more so . |
| 6 | But Beatrice complained sadly that she had nothing to wear that had n't been seen a hundred times . |
| 7 | Shareholders are offered a one-for-three rights issue at 110p to raise £152million , but Corporate Partners will take up any shares not subscribed to . |
| 8 | It 's been used a thousand times already , as I gather the bed makes clear . |
| 9 | ‘ Their deaths shall be avenged a thousand times ! ’ |
| 10 | Lot number eight Lot eight there we are there it is showing to you , Lot number eight and I 'm offered a hundred pounds to start me on it , one hundred pounds and ten , twenty , one hundred and twenty pounds at a hundred and twenty pounds all s all done at one twenty , one thirty , forty a hundred and forty pounds selling for one hundred and forty pounds , any more at one hundred and forty pounds . |
| 11 | Lot number thirty five Lot number thirty five there we are , there it is showing , Lot number thirty five , eighty pounds for this one , at eighty , eighty five , ninety , ninety five , one hundred is offered I 'm offered a hundred pounds and selling for one hundred , all done ? |
| 12 | The parasites will be blasted a hundred times for the indignities they have inflicted on us ! ’ |
| 13 | A tale , which could and probably will be repeated a thousand times , of the fate of a work of art shaken loose from its context by the tempest of World War II |
| 14 | But in many cases of recording factual information , opinions , attitudes and even physical characteristics ( such as domestic facilities within a house ) , work done by the schedule designer before the questions are asked , or the observations made , can be repaid a dozen times over by the ease with which subsequent analysis can then be carried out . |
| 15 | She is opinionated , and can confidently predict that William Burroughs , whose books have me aching with boredom , will be read a hundred years from now . |
| 16 | I have been asked a thousand times for the deep cultural explanation of all sorts of profound differences between ‘ us and them ’ in the last few months . |
| 17 | Peter Cook has been awarded a thousand pounds by the Prince 's Youth Business Trust to set up his own juggling company . |
| 18 | We often lost each other on the seven barges being pushed a thousand miles up the Zaire River , once Conrad 's Congo . |
| 19 | Erm , and to look at the stories which are of a different time but are still relevant to our time and place , they have a , have a message for us , even though they were set a hundred years ago , they 've still got something to say us , so I think that 's an area we need to explore . |
| 20 | Is this man being paid a million dollars a year for a driving technique which is dispensed by every BSM instructor ? |
| 21 | On going into the line for the first time , Jubert 's colonel gave the officers of his regiment instructions that must have been repeated a thousand times at Verdun : |
| 22 | This guy 's played a million games . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ He has won two championship medals , he 's played a million games and he 's got the character to overcome setbacks like the one at Ibrox . ’ |
| 24 | It 's cost a million pounds to build a new water treatment works at Stow on the Wold in Gloucestershire , to take nitrates out of spring and river water . |
| 25 | IBM is saying it 's delivered a million copies of OS/2 and predicts it could reach two million by the end of the year : Microsoft Corp voiced scepticism about the number to The Wall Street Journal to which IBM VP Jim Cannavino retorted , ‘ A stork did n't bring [ the one million copies ] and I assure you I have n't cooked the books . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ A bad argument remains a bad argument even if it is repeated a thousand times . ’ |
| 27 | Black , because it had been burned a thousand years ago ; it still showed the shape of the face impressed upon it . |
| 28 | Rumours have suggested Susan Hill was given a million pounds for writing it , she says she got nothing like that amount . |
| 29 | He was given a six months sentence , suspended for three years . |
| 30 | As though trying to use up a bit of space , the garage ( for a single car ) was situated a hundred yards from the house , up a separate track . |