Example sentences of "have [verb] a hundred [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After it has travelled a hundred yards or so , it bivouacs . |
| 2 | A mother has offered a hundred pound reward to catch the man who shot her ten year old son in the head with an air rifle . |
| 3 | He 'd seen a hundred funerals . |
| 4 | Before he 'd gone a hundred yards Joseph saw a burly French colon cuff an Annamite coolie roughly about the head at the curbside after descending from his pousse-pousse . |
| 5 | She said if you went out alone in a tight skirt you were black and blue before you 'd gone a hundred yards . |
| 6 | this is the story of my life now in the bathroom I have had , I have had to pay a hundred pounds to Mr Butcher the plumber to put in a new shower thing because that was cheap and rough and eventually wore out should never have been put in . |
| 7 | I might as well have had that shower , she thought drily ; at least I would have felt a hundred times more human . |
| 8 | The phrase , which was one she must have used a hundred times to visiting parishioners in ordinary times , took on a poignant inadequacy in the context of the murder of her husband . |
| 9 | Now the Child Support Agency says he 'll have to pay a hundred pounds a week . |
| 10 | Between the Arch and the back of the Admiralty proper runs a small unnamed side-street which I must have passed a hundred times without really noticing . |
| 11 | She would have passed a hundred breathalysers . ’ |
| 12 | Though it was holding weekly meetings in the 1920s it was no new group , having started a hundred years previously in a London coffee house where members met to discuss debtors and exchange information about how best to deal with bad payers . |
| 13 | He must have questioned a hundred people but none could remember seeing the green car . |
| 14 | She had perhaps a few spoonfuls of oil ; she was told to pour those minute contents of her jar into jars that might have held a hundred times as much as she had . |
| 15 | The slave trade may be considered , like the fabulous hydra , to have had a hundred heads , every one of which it was necessary to cut off before it could be subdued . |
| 16 | ‘ Somebody seems to have scored a hundred runs and been the hero of the school . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | You 've saved an hundred quid . |
| 19 | It was a movement I had seen a hundred times on television , but never before in real life . |
| 20 | He watched the young man 's face , now set in the sort of bored , practised , professional expression Grout had seen a hundred times before . |
| 21 | we 've got a hundred grams divided by twenty eight pennies , the answer is whatever it comes to grams per divided by pennies , grams per penny , so that 's a good check that you 've got it the right way up , before you go and calculate it you just have a little look , what have I got here ? |
| 22 | be getting a result if you stepped in with another four phones , new lines , you 'd have the use of these four lines for three month , to generate business before you get out with first phone bill on them , right so that you could drop er the lines here if you wanted , at er , at the end of the day , it does n't matter whether you 've got one line or whether you 've got a hundred lines |
| 23 | if you 've got one line making you money and you 've got a hundred lines , a hundred lines is gon na make you a hundred times more , do , do you see what I mean ? |
| 24 | We 've got a hundred members |
| 25 | Lot number seventy seven Lot seventy seven Lot number seventy seven is showing for you and I 've got a hundred pounds offered for it and ten , twenty , at one hundred and twenty pounds at a hundred and twenty pounds , one twenty , you all done ? |
| 26 | but still I 've got a hundred pound in there , you have seventy one , seventy two pound worth , plenty stuff |
| 27 | Paul was saying that I mean , they 're a hundred percent nomination housing the people who need the housing most are are n't the ones who who 'll be able to er , to use the and there 's no housing strategy on on er o o on the equity part , the the there might be , only a tiny bit , on on on the rent side but it does n't homes fo for the people who really need it , even if they 've got a hundred percent nomination flats ! |
| 28 | Cos we 've got a hundred percent hundred percent increase in volume |
| 29 | It was an exchange they had had a hundred times during childhood at the end of some day 's adventure in remote fields . |
| 30 | When he was killed he had had a hundred pounds on him . |