Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] a hundred [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I stopped a hundred yards down the road and checked my bearings in the paperback A-Z I keep taped behind the sun visor . |
| 2 | I park a hundred yards away up the High Street . |
| 3 | Meanwhile , I was struggling to unfasten myself , but just as I managed to pull my left arm free of the ropes , I felt a hundred arrows land on my free hand , and more arrows on my face and body . |
| 4 | And many more died from accidents ; I saw a hundred children die from fire . |
| 5 | You 've got all the you 've got I think a hundred voices . |
| 6 | I had a hundred photocopies made of their reply and began another support-raising campaign , including a copy of the letter from the SAS with each request . |
| 7 | There had been a few times , with my accent , I 'd been called names , but as soon as they knew I was Jewish I had a hundred mothers and brothers and fathers to take care of me . |
| 8 | I had a hundred men in there , dismantling the place back to the bare walls . |
| 9 | Lot twenty five little red Peter Pan there it is now showing , thank you and I 've a hundred pounds offered for this , any more at one hundred ? |
| 10 | And Lot twenty nine is a Mikkyphone , that kind of Mikkyphone , Lot twenty nine and I have a hundred pounds offered , any more at a hundred ? |
| 11 | Lot fifty eight collection of record pads and bits and pieces for which I have a hundred pounds offered , and ten , one twenty , one thirty , any more at one thirty , forty , one fifty , one sixty , one seventy one eighty , one ninety , two hundred , two twenty two forty two forty on the left at the back , any more at two forty , two sixty , two eighty two eighty three hundred three twenty three twenty on the left near the back now , at three twenty , are you , it 's your bid , sir , at three twenty pounds , any more at three twenty and I 'll sell at three hundred and twenty pounds . |
| 12 | Do you think that 's changed , I mean do you think a hundred years ago , two hundred years ago , five hundred years ago |
| 13 | Finally she states that she needs a hundred francs to pay a bill for her clothing . |
| 14 | She 'd a hundred times rather change last night 's husband on a daily basis , be reviled as a witch in the parliament of women , she 'd like to have dead babies in succession — she winced at this , ‘ Please , no ’ — but pressed on rather than be that nothing , that unbeing , that sump of ribaldry and pity and contempt , the woman-who-had-never-had-a man , the zitella , the old maid . |
| 15 | Legally , I could keep you waiting a hundred years for the money . ’ |
| 16 | So you spent a hundred pounds more ? |
| 17 | May you have a hundred pupils before you turn round . " |
| 18 | and she had a hundred pounds , she put a hundred pounds in to cover the , you know , to put her back into credit . |
| 19 | You 'll never profit from it if you live a hundred years . |
| 20 | So if you take a hundred gallons on a day meter , you 're charged for a hundred gallons of water going out as sewage , er the Anglia rate is is is double ours for sewage . |
| 21 | and she had a hundred pounds , she put a hundred pounds in to cover the , you know , to put her back into credit . |
| 22 | Yes , it 's the hundred , it 's a hundred over four , what does that come to , so now if you had a hundred things shared out between , what would that come to ? |
| 23 | ‘ Yes , it 's our centenary and we are charging the prices we charged a hundred years ago . ’ |
| 24 | The forest was cool where we walked a hundred feet below the canopy . |
| 25 | For every unskilled job we advertise , we get a hundred applicants — more than a hundred . |
| 26 | Now I 'm minded at the moment to say , look , why should we pay a hundred pounds and pay all the , all the , all the refurbishment of that site , because they wo n't be able to develop it , there 's no , there 's no access to that land . |
| 27 | We go a hundred yards and I tell him to stop . |
| 28 | Okay and then on the outside circle there we mark a hundred degrees . |
| 29 | Erm the the third prize was erm seven hundred and fifty eight pounds sales from South Suffolk , they got a hundred pounds , and seven other er constituencies who sold between six hundred and ninety three pounds seventy five and five hundred and one pounds ' worth of tickets |
| 30 | Eight thousand miners were known to be in Yanomami territory in 1989 , when they constructed a hundred airstrips to ferry in fuel , food and mining equipment . |