Example sentences of "a [num] [noun pl] [to-vb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Powell has earned , the hard way , the respect that prompted a dozen jockeys to telephone him in the week before the race . |
| 2 | ‘ What would you do , ’ Wexford said to his wife , ‘ if I brought a young girl home and offered you a thousand pounds to let her stay ? ’ |
| 3 | It only costs a thousand pounds to get me |
| 4 | It took more than a thousand participants to make it happen , beating the previous record by thirty-five . |
| 5 | It would take a million years to tell you all the things I have done , and some of the things I would n't tell even you , ’ she said mischievously , ‘ but it 's great to be home . |
| 6 | It took the industrious Lowndes nearly a hundred lines to explain it all . |
| 7 | They had to write it out a hundred times to remember it . |
| 8 | But we have n't got a hundred pounds to give them . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | As it was it took nearly a hundred men to pull him out . |
| 11 | This gun was in fact called His Majesty 's Gun Blastbuster and it required a contingent of a hundred troops to operate it . |