Example sentences of "have [verb] a million [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 The Soviet-American joint venture ‘ 21st-Century Technologies ’ has given a million roubles and a truckful of restoration materials has arrived in Moscow , courtesy of the Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt .
2 ‘ He has run a million miles for us this season and will run another million , ’ he said .
3 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 .
4 It was a movement she 'd made a million times before , yet as soon as her fingers came into contact with his thick , silky hair she felt a jolt as though an electric current had shot right through her , making her start back in surprise .
5 Jessica probably knew ten times more about these things than she did , she 'd had a million times more experience , at any rate .
6 We 've had to make a million pounds savings this last year .
7 IT 'S a feat that his circus act father would have made a million bucks from , but how could Mr Major-Ball have foreseen that everything little John touched would turn into 100% pure horse-dung ?
8 But on a rainy March afternoon in 1988 it must have seemed a million miles from home .
9 We might even be able to evolve an exact reconstruction of a dodo by selectively breeding pigeons , though we 'd have to live a million years in order to complete the experiment .
10 Has anyone rung up and told me I 've won a million pounds ?
11 ‘ Cheers , ’ said Bunny , pocketing the mat as he had done a million others , though the phone numbers on them were not usually trombonists .
12 ‘ I was looking at him like I had done a million times and suddenly I saw his shoulder twitch slightly , ’ she said .
13 Her books Married Love and Wise Parenthood , published with difficulty in 1917 and 1918 , had sold a million copies by World War II .
14 Within two weeks the Allies had put a million men into France .
15 She was bound and helpless , and I 've masturbated a million times imagining girls I know in such situations . ’
16 Jay had poured a million words her way with little response .
17 It 's the richest black African country and Kano 's got a million inhabitants .
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