Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] a million [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Baby parade has continued ever since , encompassing such ditties as ‘ I Found A Million Dollar Baby In A Five And Ten Cent Store ’ , ‘ You Better Keep Babying Baby ( Or Your Baby 's Gon na Bye-Bye You ) ’ , and ‘ Baby Let Your Drawers Hang Down ’ , the latter being performed at Babe Connors ' Club in St Louis , where the girls did bumps and grinds on a mirror floor . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's under the arch and through the saucepans , ’ I told a million shoppers who wanted the ladies — or at least I think that 's where it was . |
| 3 | I bet a million quid that |
| 4 | No way in the world , if I won a million pounds again . |
| 5 | ‘ My father was a great reader , ’ I explained , as I have a million times . |
| 6 | ‘ How can you look a million dollars , be so terrifically successful in business — and yet your personal life seem to be in such a mess ? ’ |
| 7 | Well the total is always three sixty all the way round but was this when you had a million pound pocket money or when you only got four pence a week . |
| 8 | We seemed a million miles from the Weddell Sea and that ice-encrusted vessel , but I had a feeling now that this was all a part of the voyage to come . |
| 9 | Now this is in his key messages , and towards the back , there are two pages , where he complains that many promises were made for the facilities management contract , and in particular , erm , he says it is still the case that work to take advantage of the development faci facility has not yet been identified , now I think this is the thing we spent a million pounds on it , and are not using it . |
| 10 | Well as you can see from what Frank said , the six main sectors overall did n't fare too badly , sixteen percent drop in aggregate at the trading level and in fact er , our other interest less expenses were actually ended on eleven percent because we had a million pounds more profit from Lakeside when we sold the Tesco 's site . |
| 11 | Then we have a million households where the woman is the sole breadwinner . |
| 12 | If you are not eligible to be put in if you do n't have a motor car then you 're discounting an enormous number of people who may have motorcycles or motor caravans or , you know , something which is perfectly valid but it invalidates the information that you think you are getting out of the file because you only put in certain perfectly reasonable , groups of er of things and i in , in , in Boots there 's a , there 's a er there 's a a wonderful expression or actually is , is the one I 'm particularly thinking about , you know we , we sell shall we say a million bottles of aspirin a year , it is in fact considerably more than that , and that is perfectly reasonable and valid and mm but in the definition of that we obviously only included what Boots the Chemists sold because that 's all the people who |
| 13 | BUT AS they sit here , they seem a million miles from their tranquil Northwich base . |
| 14 | BUT AS they sit here , they seem a million miles from their tranquil Northwich base . |
| 15 | They look a million dollars especially on Marks model Marcus Schenkenberg from Sweden but cost a lot , lot less . |
| 16 | They look a million dollars especially on Marks model Marcus Schenkenberg from Sweden but cost a lot , lot less . |
| 17 | They reckon a million people would still be off after a year . |
| 18 | It was a rough match with five bookings but Lazio will not be complaining — they took a million pounds in receipts . |
| 19 | Smokey was only 18 when The Miracles made ‘ Get A Job ’ , and they had a million seller with ‘ Shop Around ’ less than two years later . |
| 20 | But the Evangelical Alliance UK , which says it represents a million churchgoers , immediately responded by saying the Church must not adopt society 's view of marriage as disposable and pre-marital sex as inevitable . |
| 21 | In 1923 she recorded ‘ Downhearted Blues ’ , one of the 14 releases Bessie had on Columbia that year , and it became a million seller , helping to save the company from certain bankruptcy . |
| 22 | In an address to Young Unionists , the Fermanagh and South Tyrone MP slammed SDLP and Eire politicians who claimed it cost a million pounds each day to secure the border . |
| 23 | He negotiated a million dollars tax-free for eighteen weeks ' work . |
| 24 | It seemed a million years since the morning . |
| 25 | Now it attracts a million visitors a year . |
| 26 | Lee Martin 's five hundred thou , Robins is a million , Dave Moore 's on loan at Blackmoor , Blackburn he 's getting , he had a million quid in it for decided they want him . |