Example sentences of "have [verb] a thousand [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | It is no use telling a man who has received a thousand pounds a year in giro cheques that he has the means to better himself . |
2 | The closing of a station intangibly but significantly diminishes the spiritual life of a country and its people , for it brings down the curtain with devastating finality on a stage which has seen a thousand dramas , comic and tragic , played out and has mirrored the changing moods of the nation , has etched itself into the working lives of some , the emotional lives of others . |
3 | It has launched a thousand folk tales ; and now is proving a superb model for studying the hormones that control plant growth |
4 | Saying er , I was telling it the other day , she said you could spend all that money on and she said , we went to see this horse , it was years ago before they got their own , she said the horse had just had its foal and it was like he 'd spent a thousand pound on the , the actual stallion yeah and it come out |
5 | He would never understand how she could memorize all those complex , impossibly long poems , yet forget the words of a simple song she must have heard a thousand times or more . |
6 | They might well have done a thousand years ago , but the Imperial Age converted that horizontal relationship into a vertical one so that Sri Lankan schools still teach vertical history ‘ Ceylon Under British Rule ’ and Senegal continues its cultural obsession with France . |
7 | I 've been family member for twelve years and must have seen a thousand children , and of those , barely fifty had both their natural mother and father ! |
8 | The footings and parts of the walls of around 300 chambers have survived on the ground floor ; the presence of several staircases implies the existence of upper storeys and , taking into account the destroyed upper floors as well , the original temple may have had a thousand chambers altogether . |
9 | Jeanette Howse of the Didcot Railway Centre explains that Kenneth 's popularity means they could have invited a thousand guests . |
10 | He must have waved a thousand times , and it was barely ten o'clock . |
11 | He must have taken a thousand pictures with people . |
12 | ‘ Because you have a face that might have launched a thousand ships . |
13 | The face of Helen of Troy is said to have launched a thousand ships , and the beauty of Cleopatra created havoc in the Roman Empire . |
14 | And the singing of birds I had heard a thousand times , thrushes , blackbirds in our London garden , I heard as if I had never heard them before . |
15 | Oh shit you 've won a thousand pounds |
16 | Now , I 've won a thousand pounds in the United Kingdom . |
17 | wants two more miles on my clock and I 've done a thousand mile on my . |
18 | So , you 've got a client who for whatever reason , is , is unable to er , afford the premiums , and providing they 've got a thousand pounds in the fund , they can elect to the , the plan made paid up , whereby the life cover is sustained by the fund and all the other charges , and it 's sustained until the fund runs dry . |
19 | Yes but I 've got a thousand members in my , I 'm district secretary , I 've got a thousand members at least |
20 | Yes but I 've got a thousand members in my , I 'm district secretary , I 've got a thousand members at least |
21 | That seems to me , to need a lot of thinking about , because if you 've got difficult children , ra the last thing we want to do is think you 've got a thousand pound fine or so . |
22 | The door opened quietly ; and stepping into the kitchen , as he had stepped a thousand times before , came Jake . |
23 | It was a landmark I had passed a thousand times and yet had never properly explored . |
24 | And you 've paid a thousand pound for it , so he 's making all this profit all the time ! |
25 | 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 . |
26 | As a result of his intervention , the Chambers of Mr S. C. Stamler QC have covenanted a thousand pounds a year to the Law Library ‘ for the foreseeable future ’ . |