Example sentences of "have [be] [verb] [adj] [num] pounds " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The family of a victim of the Lockerbie disaster has been awarded five million pounds in damages . |
| 2 | A woman sacked by the RAF because she became pregnant has been awarded twenty-two thousand pounds compensation . |
| 3 | A former vice chairman of governors at a school for disturbed children has been fined nine hundred pounds for importing pornographic material . |
| 4 | A dog breeder has been fined eight hundred pounds for causing a noise nuisance . |
| 5 | A chemicals company has been fined eight thousand pounds after admitting that a fire which destroyed its factory was started when a worker used a blowlamp to unblock a pipe . |
| 6 | A company has been fined two thousand pounds for allowing almost fifty gallons of diesel fuel to pollute a river . |
| 7 | An airman who helped destroy evidence after a twenty million pound arson attack has been fined fifteen hundred pounds . |
| 8 | The Marquess of Blandford has been fined one thousand pounds for not paying taxi fares . |
| 9 | Meanwhile , the Bishop has been fined three hundred pounds by Forest of Dean Magistrates for a speeding offence . |
| 10 | I had , I had a letter the other day saying that I 'd been paying thirty nine pounds , fifty a week to live on , but I 've been entitled to fifty five pound something for low income support so are they gon na backdate all that and then get their |
| 11 | The court heard many potential eye witnesses in the pub had been imtimated and one man who did give evidence claimed a hit man had been paid twenty thousand pounds to kill him . |
| 12 | Because if they do n't know about it the mother or the father of that child will no doubt be coming along screaming I 've been getting twenty five pounds a week for the last ten years and I 've child on my own now . |
| 13 | So like I even said that to the coppers today I said he 's been handling seventeen hundred pounds near enough near as damn it |
| 14 | He 's been fined three hundred pounds and banned from the dugout for a year for verbally abusing referee Sandy Roy during a recent match . |