Example sentences of "have [verb] a [adj] miles " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He has run a million miles for us this season and will run another million , ’ he said . |
| 2 | Clark was eager to play in tonight 's Anglo-Italian tie against Leicester at St James 's Park but boss Keegan said : ‘ Lee has run a million miles for us this season . |
| 3 | You 'll still have to do a few miles ? |
| 4 | But on a rainy March afternoon in 1988 it must have seemed a million miles from home . |
| 5 | I saw no signs and had gone a few miles before I saw my first human being . |
| 6 | During the previous day a major naval battle had ensued a few miles to the east , and had continued into the night — the ‘ Battle of Matapan ’ ; a resounding defeat for the Italian Fleet . |
| 7 | There has been so much interest in the industrial side , while you just have to go a few miles out of Middlesbrough to get to the coast or the middle of the moors . ’ |
| 8 | There has been so much interest in the industrial side while you just have to go a few miles out of Middlesbrough to get to the coast or the middle of the moors . ’ |
| 9 | If it 's done a thousand miles , you 'd get nine thousand five hundred and then cos of the mileage they 'd take off a thousand divided by ten , so they 'd take a hundred pounds off that . |