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 . |