Example sentences of "[pers pn] [num] [n mass] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ They 'll give me fifty pence for that at the souvenir shop , ’ Adam said .
2 She sells them to me fifty pence a packet .
3 Anyway , she owed me fifty quid .
4 The other week it cost me fifty quid to go to the , to get it tuned you know ?
5 ‘ I only charged them fifty pence so we wo n't get rich on that , but it 's probably done our reputation a lot of good . ’
6 Oh I thought it was one of them fifty pence ones .
7 But last Christmas my grandad gave me eight quid
8 She still owe me forty pence .
9 The probes used for Southern and Northern Blot hybridisation were Ea cDNA ( 41 ) , Eb cDNA ( 42 ) , Ea 695 bp ( Pst I/Kpn I fragment covering the second exon of Ea d ) and 5'Ea 1.1kb ( Sac I/Sal I 1.1 kb fragment isolated from cosmid 32.1 ) ( 26 ) and β-actin cDNA ( 43 ) .
10 Nick was wearing yesterday 's shirt and the damp smell round the breakfast table told Erlich that Nick had washed his one pair of socks the night before .
11 Like I say , the choice is yours hundred percent !
12 Now so that 's two each , you owe me thirteen pence yes ? and it 's your box
13 two hundred and twenty nine then hundred and seventy five but I mean if we could sell them six quid a time well
14 They gave me 26 quid this week but I rummaged through the shed and found a couple of things to stick in as prizes .
15 ‘ But it 'll cost ye three quid , ’ Rab said , ‘ if ye get beat , if it takes a week . ’
16 ‘ I 'll gie ye two quid . ’
17 Rosalind said it must go tonight , and she gave me three pence for a lolly to stamp it and post it . ’
18 She give me three quid for my birthday .
19 A hundred grams , for one bar , costs you twenty eight pence , right , and then another one that 's two hundred grams and it 'll cost you fifty pence .
20 But it 's ridiculous you fifty quid a night to hire a suit .
21 I 'll give you fifty quid for that one .
22 Gave you fifty quid !
23 And by the way , if we only give you fifty percent we 'll allow you to rattle our cage , which is a bit of a cheek really , but we 'll allow it .
24 ‘ Murdering a man will cost you forty sheep , murdering a woman , only twenty ! ’
25 You nineteen quid .
26 ‘ Four thousand revs will give you 90 mph in the Formula First , ’ he said , ‘ and in a car which is one and a half inches off the ground , that will feel like 190 mph , so it should be plenty fast enough for today . ’
27 You 've only got to go up here , they only charge you ten pence for a sheet , get a great big , actually I could type .
28 Give you ten sheep .
29 Er so er let's say that the ten percent rate applies , er mind you ten percent is a long way from where we are now , but it makes the figures easy to look at , so er let's say that he 's getting ten percent gross on his return on a building society , he 'd actually get seven and a half percent net , er so on his ten thousand he 's going to earn seven fifty .
30 But when he gets round to it , I think he 'll control them a bit more closely , now you can invest in that sort of fund quite safely , and although it wo n't give you any capital growth , because if they 're giving you ten percent income , obviously the capital growth 's going to be limited , but er if it 's the income that you 're after , not a bad thing to do , so I mean at the moment I may actually combine one income-type er P E P with one growth and income , where the , where the , perhaps the yield is about five percent .
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