Example sentences of "i [verb] a dozen [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I could s I I even though it might make me a lot of money because I know that if I got if I made a dozen phone calls and did n't get any deals I 'd be out there wanting play the er I would n't trust myself .
2 And I want a dozen bottles for myself ’
3 You 've got a dozen items I want a dozen items
4 Did I mention , I discovered a dozen rolls of the original wallpaper in a tin trunk in the attic ?
5 Myself , I get a dozen invitations a year …
6 I get a dozen scripts a week like that .
7 At the target range in Van Nuys , a lower middle-class white suburb in the Valley , north of Central Los Angeles , I saw a dozen people line up early in the morning to take target practice with hand-guns , shooting at targets shaped like men — most of them at 25 paces : ‘ the most common range for street warfare , ’ as one man there put it .
8 To test it 's authenticity I chose a dozen snails in garlic butter to start a dish that I 'd only ever eaten in Paris before .
9 As soon as the off-licence opened I bought a dozen cans of Norseman lager , hefting the packs under my arm as I went off to find a quiet corner of the station where I could guzzle them in peace .
10 I 've a dozen guards … ’
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