Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] a thousand [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I want a thousand pounds to come through the door now . |
| 2 | Have I won a thousand pounds ? |
| 3 | Oversize exters bulging with weapons — an in the middle of em looking a thousand years old , Ten-huc himself . |
| 4 | I died a thousand deaths before I got him ashore , but eventually , at the fourth attempt , I managed to beach the fish . |
| 5 | There were shrieks of laughter and I felt a thousand bruises rising . |
| 6 | I collect a thousand pounds ! |
| 7 | Yeah , he said I got a thousand pound well I 'll ring around , he said I got a thousand o off my , I saved a thousand pounds on my roof he said I thought bloody hell , how much cost costing him ! |
| 8 | I learned a thousand crafts . |
| 9 | I waited a thousand years for my introduction , then the curtains opened and I found myself centre-stage . |
| 10 | . Lot forty six Trade-Mark gramophone , there it is on the screen now , Lot forty six I 've a thousand pounds offered for this , one thousand pounds , any advance on a thousand ? |
| 11 | That girl who was in the elevator plunged on the ninth floor she plunged a thousand feet to the sub-basement or there 's massive big springs on it apparently , I read about it . |
| 12 | In order to still his sexual passions Sir Frances took an unusual wife , what was unusual about her A , she was made of snow , B , she had no vagina , C , she lived a thousand miles away ? |
| 13 | Somebody told Evelyn they got a , she got a thousand pounds for slipping on pavement . |
| 14 | If she thinks once of Edgar Linton , she thinks a thousand times of me ! |
| 15 | I went back to Batty Langley , who considered the gardens she designed a thousand times better than Versailles . |
| 16 | going for a that was brilliant I got and that , and I tried , I had a whole box of er , erm , thing is , when you hold a thousand rounds of ammunition , I got given about two thirds of this box all for myself , so I 'm there for about three hours before the exercise I had and then put the rest in the then we sat down for another hour filling them up again , superb , we had loads of bung in the windows grenades |
| 17 | Its history , if you skipped a thousand years , was as violent as Phnom Penh 's or Smolensk 's . |
| 18 | In your work perhaps you control a thousand tanks . |
| 19 | Seven , one , two , three , four , five , six , seven Ascot fruit stake , ticket on a horse roll a double and you win a thousand pounds , roll an even and you win two hundred , roll an odd and you |
| 20 | Then she died a thousand deaths and was born again instantly as at last his lips came down to cover hers . |
| 21 | ‘ Look , I 'm sorry … ’ she managed to say huskily , forcing a tight smile while she died a thousand deaths inside . |
| 22 | She felt a thousand miles away from the gentle professor , who used to cross out the expletives in Sheridan and even bowdlerized Macbeth . |
| 23 | You see a thousand colours but what avails it if your heart is grey ? |
| 24 | Where else will you find a thousand swans , geese and ducks , a superb collection of Veteran , Edwardian and Vintage cars and motorcycles plus art and antique collections in a Country House with its formal garden set in beautiful countryside . |
| 25 | We do have You know we sold a thousand favours this way , it 's not bad . |
| 26 | So we got a thousand letters to do that 's all , well it might be over I do n't know they 're but |
| 27 | Now I 'm just thinking , so we got a thousand pounds here , I would like to spend this money . |
| 28 | We budgeted a thousand pounds , it looks as if we 're going to have to spend more on urgent work . |
| 29 | Let's say we earned a thousand pounds commission on one case , and I had to make one hundred calls to earn , to get that one sale . |
| 30 | ‘ Not even the moments that we relive a thousand times . ’ |