Example sentences of "had [vb pp] a [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the singing of birds I had heard a thousand times , thrushes , blackbirds in our London garden , I heard as if I had never heard them before . |
| 2 | Before I had heard a dozen words , I was trembling with fear . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Nicola had phoned a dozen times , without luck . |
| 5 | It was a movement I had seen a hundred times on television , but never before in real life . |
| 6 | He watched the young man 's face , now set in the sort of bored , practised , professional expression Grout had seen a hundred times before . |
| 7 | ‘ Cheers , ’ said Bunny , pocketing the mat as he had done a million others , though the phone numbers on them were not usually trombonists . |
| 8 | ‘ I was looking at him like I had done a million times and suddenly I saw his shoulder twitch slightly , ’ she said . |
| 9 | It was an exchange they had had a hundred times during childhood at the end of some day 's adventure in remote fields . |
| 10 | When he was killed he had had a hundred pounds on him . |
| 11 | With that , bayonets glistening , they began to charge , converging from every angle of the hemisphere ; before they had advanced a dozen yards squadrons of lancers had overtaken them racing for the ramparts . |
| 12 | I had forgotten my way and had to look all round me slowly until I recognized the street which I had used a hundred times before . |
| 13 | Lance Percival was in the audience the night that Ken descended on the stage from a rope , curled up his lips , flared his nostrils and in the snide voice he had used a hundred times in the Hancock shows slipped in a ‘ Hello ’ that had the Williams fans rolling . |
| 14 | Her books Married Love and Wise Parenthood , published with difficulty in 1917 and 1918 , had sold a million copies by World War II . |
| 15 | His behaviour , as the Victorian constitutionalist Walter Bagehot had noted a hundred years earlier , was the prerogative of princes . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Whisper it not at the British Heart Foundation , but we knew that , as well as the salt , into that dinner had gone a dozen eggs , a couple of pints of cream , half a pound of butter , a quarter-pound of sugar and about half a pint of Calvados . |
| 18 | The door opened quietly ; and stepping into the kitchen , as he had stepped a thousand times before , came Jake . |
| 19 | It was the first time that I had run a 60 metres in years and I improved my personal best to 6.63 seconds , which I was pleased with — but not so happy , obviously , to lose to Lincoln by one-hundredth of a second . |
| 20 | Yes , I mean I run a series for one of the local newspapers on past Lewes mayors and the amount of work that I had to do for that meant that I picked up all sorts of pieces of information about what other mayors had tried in the past , and things that had been successful and things that had been disasters , and as it was the centenary I went to a lot of trouble to look up exactly what had happened a hundred years ago and to try and recreate the ceremonial connected with that , and then when we elected erm two people honourary freeman of the town I got in all of the other mayors from Sussex , asked them to come along with their robes and mace bearers and so on , and we had this very sort of grand ceremonial procession in the Assembly Hall , which was sort of packed out with about four hundred people . |
| 21 | Yes , I mean I run a series for one of the local newspapers on past Lewes mayors , and the amount of work that I had to do for that meant that I picked up all sorts of pieces of information about what other mayors had tried in the past , and things that had been successful and things that had been disasters , and as it was a centenary , I went to a lot of trouble to look up exactly what had happened a hundred years ago , and to try and recreate the ceremonial connected with that . |
| 22 | It had taken a hundred firemen from three counties to bring the blaze under control , and it destroyed half the British armed forces stock of parachutes.Senior Aircraftman Douglas Bailey had drunk the equivalent of seventeen pints of beer . |
| 23 | His horse had taken a dozen blows and was weakening . |
| 24 | Within two weeks the Allies had put a million men into France . |
| 25 | Athelstan stopped to compose himself before continuing : ‘ When it was over , my brother was dead and I had aged a hundred years . |
| 26 | It was a landmark I had passed a thousand times and yet had never properly explored . |
| 27 | Jay had poured a million words her way with little response . |
| 28 | It was a book he had read a dozen times in his life ; each time with greater understanding and a growing satisfaction . |