Example sentences of "a dozen [noun pl] [prep] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Victor 's thinking of buying a dozen horses off them , unless he sees something he fancies better at Alejandro 's tomorrow . |
| 2 | The Brigadier set down a fat puppy that he had been holding and squelched towards the yard , driving a dozen pullets before him . |
| 3 | If you have half a dozen birds between you and the shore , a cat is likely to get one of them first . |
| 4 | She began a letter a month after their arrival with the words , ‘ Here we are in a large mansion , in a large park , with seventy head of deer around us ’ , before going on to describe a house which contained ‘ furniture enough for a dozen families like ours ’ . |
| 5 | On past trips to Japan and Saudi Arabia Philip Somerville created up to a dozen hats for her . |
| 6 | His father had followed him from room to room , half a dozen strides behind him all through that late afternoon . |
| 7 | Yeah , it takes erm you can get half a dozen crates in you could get eleven gallon if you wanted . |
| 8 | Maggie glanced over at the Lawlers who were about a dozen feet from her . |
| 9 | pay for that , they just a little annexe , you 'd only get half a dozen cars in it . |
| 10 | Enough to satisfy a dozen fellows like him . |