Example sentences of "be a thousand [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am a thousand winds that blow I am the diamond glint on snow . |
| 2 | The place was heaving when we arrived ; there must have been a thousand people squashed into the confines of the Blue Angel club , all waiting to do three minutes for Les Cox and his production team , sitting invisibly beyond the strong footlights on the small stage . |
| 3 | you know , and erm , our Kim , er , she , she goes to bloody extreme then , she 's picked a wardrobe , one wardrobe and a set of drawers , should of been a thousand pound and that bloke at Aston where she got her bed from , which she paid twelve hundred pound just for a bedhead |
| 4 | But for every triumph there are a thousand tragedies . |
| 5 | You are a thousand times a properer man |
| 6 | ‘ Oh , there are a thousand reasons why I wanted them to wait . ’ |
| 7 | And the houses are a thousand pounds each . |
| 8 | Although my neighbours are all barbarians , and you , you are a thousand miles away , there are always two cups on my table . ’ ' |
| 9 | The people who care for these snakes are very clever at milking them and getting the venom from the animal safely , and this is then purified biochemically and erm sent to us as a dried product in a stoppered bottle and the snakes are a thousand miles away , I 'm glad to say . |
| 10 | " " There are a thousand lettuces in a pile at the top of the marsh . |
| 11 | In your job there are a thousand details which you and your team need to pay attention to . |
| 12 | Because what happens , as soon as he 's , go goes back to work , it goes back down again , to what would be a thousand pounds for any future claims to start with again . |
| 13 | Christ , that 's gon na be a thousand pounds on a full comprehensive , just about . |
| 14 | I mean , that must be a thousand pounds ' worth of air tickets . |
| 15 | May God 's punishment be a thousand times worse on you than the harm that you have done to Hector . ’ |
| 16 | Any of them would be a thousand times better than Drummle ! ’ |
| 17 | She tried to shut it all out of her mind , and remember that she should consider herself lucky , for Avenue Foch would be a thousand times worse . |
| 18 | In particular he thinks the educated should have at least two votes , he does n't say how many erm that 's a matter determined case-by-case I take it , erm erratically it could be a thousand votes I mean he does n't rule that out , he does n't say it has to be more than one er two , but erm his view is that the educated to a specially privileged in a specially privileged position because they are erm more able to use their vote sensibly or to be given more than one vote , so we need now there 's going to be a question erm how do you know who the educated people are to make such suggestions , anyone with a university degree will be pleased to hear gets more than one vote on Mill 's system . |
| 19 | There would be a thousand people there , dressed with varying degrees of elegance in black and white . |
| 20 | well Jessica I forked out a fiver for your birthday which I could n't afford how would you like to be a thousand pound overdrawn ? |
| 21 | how would you like to be a thousand pound overdrawn ? , you would n't like that would you ? would you ? |
| 22 | Well his 'll be a thousand pound for the operation , being a major operation , it will be the fact that it 's skull . |
| 23 | I mean is it going to be a thousand ohms , two ohms or what ? |
| 24 | There might be a thousand methods for closing the deal , but in the end the customers will buy only if they want to buy . |
| 25 | And they normally say that a minute of erm that is gon na be a thousand quid do n't they a minute of video is a thousand quid |
| 26 | ‘ If there were a thousand Departments of Defence in Canada or elsewhere , instead of one , these would still not compete for citizens , because citizens are not their customers ; politicians are ’ ( Breton and Wintrobe 1982 , p. 91 ) . |
| 27 | Anyway , these curtains were a thousand times better than the ones off the skips ; lovely , real linen or silk or thick velvet , lined and interlined , fringed and tasselled . |
| 28 | A bookmark showed the page : ‘ J'ai plus de souvenirs que si j'avais mille ans ’ — ‘ I have more memories than if I were a thousand years old . ’ |
| 29 | There were a thousand uses for Herrick 's implants , but most would be used as they had on Haavikko — to make a man vulnerable by making him believe he had done something when he had n't . |
| 30 | There were a thousand men out , Charlie ! |