Example sentences of "have [verb] a dozen [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has opened a dozen shops with an intriguing new concept — pile it high and sell it cheap — and plans a chain of 200 . |
| 2 | They tied Maxim to a wooden chair -just like the scene they 'd watched a dozen times at the cinema — in the loading bay of a deserted warehouse . |
| 3 | St Bernards had placed a fee on this transfer should he go to a Football League club so Palace had to settle with them and with Kettering , but his eminent place in the club 's history assures us that if Palace had had to pay a dozen clubs , it would have been money well spent . |
| 4 | Before the case was finished Dalgliesh would have received a dozen pictures of Lorrimer 's personality , transferred like prints from other men 's minds . |
| 5 | Voluntary organisations like the Rainer Foundation are at last being listened to and boroughs that ten years ago might have had a dozen children 's homes now have only a couple . |
| 6 | ‘ I think I must have aged a dozen years today , ’ she said . |
| 7 | Before I had heard a dozen words , I was trembling with fear . |
| 8 | Nicola had phoned a dozen times , without luck . |
| 9 | You 've got a dozen items I want a dozen items |
| 10 | With that , bayonets glistening , they began to charge , converging from every angle of the hemisphere ; before they had advanced a dozen yards squadrons of lancers had overtaken them racing for the ramparts . |
| 11 | Whisper it not at the British Heart Foundation , but we knew that , as well as the salt , into that dinner had gone a dozen eggs , a couple of pints of cream , half a pound of butter , a quarter-pound of sugar and about half a pint of Calvados . |
| 12 | His horse had taken a dozen blows and was weakening . |
| 13 | It was a book he had read a dozen times in his life ; each time with greater understanding and a growing satisfaction . |