Example sentences of "have [verb] a thousand [noun pl] " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ! |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Jeanette Howse of the Didcot Railway Centre explains that Kenneth 's popularity means they could have invited a thousand guests . |
| 8 | He must have waved a thousand times , and it was barely ten o'clock . |
| 9 | He must have taken a thousand pictures with people . |
| 10 | ‘ Because you have a face that might have launched a thousand ships . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Oh shit you 've won a thousand pounds |
| 14 | Now , I 've won a thousand pounds in the United Kingdom . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Yes but I 've got a thousand members in my , I 'm district secretary , I 've got a thousand members at least |
| 17 | Yes but I 've got a thousand members in my , I 'm district secretary , I 've got a thousand members at least |
| 18 | The door opened quietly ; and stepping into the kitchen , as he had stepped a thousand times before , came Jake . |
| 19 | It was a landmark I had passed a thousand times and yet had never properly explored . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 ’ . |