Example sentences of "with a hundred [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was almost blue with cold , having had to scramble up an iceberg , loaded with a hundred pounds of scuba gear , and then left for long minutes all by himself . |
| 2 | It had been a Church of Ireland rectory once , where some forgotten incumbent , a keen hunting man , had built a delightful little yard , adjoining the house and with every horsebox looking into the sun ; with a hundred acres of good limestone land , the place was just the thing for Andrew and his horse-dealing . |
| 3 | The extra sappers were in place in a week , and the big hooped bombards and mortars , repositioned , were firing their three-hundred pounders as frequently as bombards were ever able to do , with a hundred balls beside each to do it with . |
| 4 | Mind you , with a hundred years of refinement and improvement behind it , you still ca n't afford to ignore good old ‘ Sutton Globe ’ . |
| 5 | He killed a hundred pheasants with a hundred shots at his friend Sir Richard Sutton 's estate of Lyndford , and in Scotland 97 grouse with 97 shots . |
| 6 | The Tiger Islands , the Brujas Islands and the Trinidad Islands are the summits of drowned hills , covered with tropical jungle and noisy with a hundred kinds of colourful birds . |