Example sentences of "have [verb] a [num] pound [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1	A mother has offered a hundred pound reward to catch the man who shot her ten year old son in the head with an air rifle .
2	A dairy farmer from Stirlingshire has begun a million pound action against a chemical company he claims ruined his herd .
3	Cos one day we found him and he was choking to death practically and erm er Tam , Linda 's husband turned him upside down and smacked his back , he 'd eaten a one pound coin .
4	He grew it , merged it with an American company , then a few years later , having developed a multimillion pound empire , cast around for a new challenge .
5	I went to change me poll tax and er I says to her , I says , I should be court to Monday oh she says you 've got a fifteen pound court thing , I says aye , she says oh well that 's fifteen pound , I says it 's not cos I 'm not paying it I says I 'm not paying the fifteen pound to the court , I says , I says how come last year I did n't pay right round to February last year I said and yet I , your last payment 's next month , you know , she said oh well they 're stricter this year she says , she , if you 'd pay the half year you 'd of been alright
6	I 've got a ten pound note I suppose .
7	One day I had left a five pound note on the mantelpiece .
8	Collectively known as Bedazzled , they 've signed a million pound contract with one of the biggest record companies in the world .
9	Somewhere in my house I 've lost a twenty pound note .
10	When you know you have located a one pound coin before you dig it up , you can call yourself an expert detectorist .
11	He said she 's got a ten pounds bonus because I paid for the .
12	The number of people involved in the sort of work there was er something like twelve to twelve and fifteen people er added up er responsible for A B C. So it did n't make any sense to us to think well if Leeds have got a million pound practice there , why have we got nothing here .

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