Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pers pn] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now they do n't have any money , and they believe he owes them £25 . |
| 2 | POLICE last night appealed for information about the whereabouts of a missing antiques dealer as a man claimed he owes him £1,600 . |
| 3 | Friends of Mia , 47 , say director Woody owes her £195,000 after she agreed to appear in his movie A Manhattan Murder Mystery . |
| 4 | Sexuality , for the celibate as well , remains a wonderful gift of God , given because he loves us so. , |
| 5 | My grant allows me £60 weekly a difference of £9 , I am now getting deeply in debt with my rent . |
| 6 | Paul 's bank now allows him £35 a week , and Geoff can withdraw no more than £40 . |
| 7 | ‘ Every time a cheque bounces it costs me £3 in bank charges . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've got three phone lines , to convert one of them to ISDN costs me £400 . |
| 9 | ‘ I contact businesses and invite them to join the trust which costs them £250 . |
| 10 | Lunch and all refreshments provided to the clients costs them £1.00 . |
| 11 | As a seller , it costs you £25 to cover lost legal fees of up to £300 if your buyer pulls out for any reason other than an adverse survey , a defect in title , or unreasonable delay on your part . |
| 12 | Usually , you get three TAFs per page , and that costs you 25p , but , as our illustration shows , you can find there is no entry for the airport you want . |
| 13 | Even if it costs you £35 , the price differential on leaded petrol will virtually allow you to recoup the cost of adjustment within one year . |
| 14 | She has £20,000 savings and owes £10,000 on her repayment mortgage , which costs her £78 a month , or £930 a year after she has received the tax allowance . |
| 15 | Phone cards have done a lot to alleviate the problem , but British Telecommunications Plc is required by its licence to maintain coin-operated public telephones as well , and the company reckons that smashing and entering of the cash boxes costs it £19m a year — and if you think that it 's all just casual vandalism , think again — the company told the Daily Mail that there was actually a man offering courses on the best ways of clawing open the boxes quickly and easily — he charged £80 for the course , and then took the best pupil out for a test run around the local boxes . |
| 16 | Home Office figures show each death costs us £750,000 in hospital treatment , police time , pensions , and insurance money . |
| 17 | My biggest problem , though is that every time I hit the flag , John charges me £450 . |
| 18 | Lick them , you see , keeps them people , er , farmers use them today , chuck them out in the field |
| 19 | Everyone here calls him Buck . ’ |
| 20 | That comes automatically , together with iced water , before Peggy Sue begins interrogating you , and is replenished so often and so generously that you make a note to speak harshly to the next British rip-off artist who rushes you 80p for a niggardly Nescafe . |
| 21 | I find it quite ghastly being at home and not working — I LONG to get a job , and meantime , YOUR FATHER and I must be careful about money as the State only gives me £40 a week for everything including local tax ( POLL TAX ) , heating , food , gas , electricity and phone and so on . |
| 22 | He gives me £54 a month and I have to pay all the bills out of that It used to bother me at first , it does n't now . |
| 23 | The banker pays me $500 ( the Temptation to defect ) and fines you ( the Sucker ) $100 . |
| 24 | You give the assistant £10 and she gives you £1.30 change . |
| 25 | The customer gives you £10 . |
| 26 | He gives you £20 . |
| 27 | This gives us 75% prepayment for every invoice to customers . |
| 28 | It saves me threepence on the fare that way . |
| 29 | Of all this glad good earth and makes me kin |
| 30 | Although he is happy with his lifestyle and a wages and bonuses package which earns him £30,000 a week , Walker 's evasive attitude and reluctance to project himself through the media has not endeared him to the locals . |