Example sentences of "cost me " in BNC.
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1 | That they have cost me no more than my time makes such decisions much easier than if I had paid for them in gold . |
2 | Certainly if I had been doing all the restoration work myself it would n't have cost me so much because I am the cheapest worker in this outfit . |
3 | As for their laying the birch on my pocket , I compute that my support of Lewis and Brzeska has cost me at the lowest estimate about £20 per year , from one source alone since that regrettable occurrence , since I dared to discern a great sculptor and a great painter in the midst of England 's artistic desolaton . |
4 | And it 's cost me , including hotel and travelling expenses , eight hundred and eleven pounds six and sevenpence ’ ( the cost of the transfer fee from York ) . |
5 | This sort of complacency could have cost me my life . |
6 | I paid three times what it would have cost me to make it ! |
7 | Fifty shillin 's it cost me , ’ he growled . |
8 | To have funked it , and then known I had let him off lightly , would have cost me even more sleepless nights . |
9 | Over the years I reckon Raleigh Cycles and a highly developed sense of drama have cost me about £7,000 in porcelain and untold damages in gum-erosion . |
10 | ‘ Eight years ’ saving up , this has cost me . |
11 | One way or another , you seem to have cost me a great deal . |
12 | Well , I had done what I could to protect the new catapult and , while I was sorry that what had happened at the Rabbit Grounds had cost me a trusted weapon with many battle honours to its name ( not to mention a significant sum out of the Defence budget ) , I thought that maybe what had happened had been for the best . |
13 | Well thanks Pauline but you 've cost me how nay thousand pounds worth of business . |
14 | ‘ I 've tried both sides of the fence , It 's cost me a lot of money but at least now I know which side I prefer . |
15 | I bought these Levi 501 's for £25 back home they would have cost me double that . ’ |
16 | I think you 've just cost me a fortune today . |
17 | I remember , again a few years ago , visiting India and buying one or two beautifully carved tables , which had obviously been carved by an individual spending quite a lot of time doing it , and I was impressed at that stage , rather naively perhaps , that if in fact I 'd bought a plain table , an uncarved one , it would have cost me about ten times as much , for the simple reason that that would require a milling machine which was not normally available , and such was the erm economy that it was cheaper for people to do this . |