Example sentences of "[verb] a fortune [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | People say of Monsoon that he has a fortune buried in a burnt-out refrigerator on one of the many little islands standing knee-deep in the sea . |
2 | At the end he said to the agent , ‘ It needs a fortune spending on it . |
3 | From nothing he amassed a fortune estimated at close to a million pounds by a combination of sustained hard work and practical technical ability . |
4 | You just write WORLD LEADER in your passport , charge a fortune to expound views rejected by your people , and let the world , and the people , go to hell . |
5 | A very weird man — who , if The Pistols had stayed together , could have made a fortune flogging those snaps to a Sunday dreadful . |
6 | He realised that he was , in fact , looking at a man , so heavily clothed , hatted and booted in furs that he could have made a fortune doing tricks at the Glasgow Fair . |
7 | Yeah made a fortune did n't they ? |
8 | Costs a fortune to feed all those hounds and keeping a horse is n't cheap these days . |
9 | It costs a fortune to run and can not have many years left before scrapping , anyway . |
10 | Apparently there have been big extra bills for Saracen this year : this place costs a fortune to run . ’ |
11 | AMERICAN retailer Sam Walton , who drove a battered pick-up truck to work all his life despite owning a fortune estimated at $24 billion , has died of cancer aged 74 . |
12 | They all paid a fortune to come on this trip and they 're entitled not to be upset . ’ |
13 | One day she would make a fortune selling it everywhere . |
14 | You could make a fortune selling them to stressed businessmen . |
15 | Electronics millionaire Alan Sugar , who made a fortune selling hi-fis and computers at prices even the Japanese could not match , is planning to buy back his Amstrad company from investors . |
16 | During the Civil War , when the Yankees surrounded the southern ports , the Sutherlands made a fortune running the blockades with war supplies from the British and French , as well as helping the cotton export to flow from the ports of Wilmington , Charleston and Savannah . |
17 | As well as business problems Mr Liffen , 47 , who made a fortune importing Italian electrical goods in the Seventies , also had domestic troubles , police said . |
18 | ‘ I would have given a fortune to touch your hand , ’ cried Boldwood wildly , ‘ but you have let a man like that — kiss you ! |
19 | Make a fortune sexing out difficult fish for breeders ? |
20 | Doing it make a make a fortune doing it |
21 | It would cost a fortune to see the work of the great masters spread around the art galleries of the World . |
22 | But , as Jill Abraham found out , it did n't cost a fortune to create this peaceful setting . |
23 | A friend said last night : ‘ It will cost a fortune to get this car back to its former glory . |
24 | She would like some sort of mobile communication to alert police , well it 's an interesting area , but it would cost a fortune to provide mobile phones |
25 | That must cost a fortune to have them on ! |
26 | It would cost a fortune to make the house watertight . |
27 | ‘ They spent a fortune developing the place , ’ the Maggot said , ‘ but the rich folks never came , so they sold it to the rich dickheads instead . ’ |
28 | He spent a fortune doing it up and then his girlfriend bolted and now he wants to sell . |
29 | I had bought her for a song , then spent a fortune restoring her and , when my term of service expired and I could afford to become the gypsy-sailor I had always wanted to be , I left the Marines and made Masquerade my new home . |
30 | And one wanted re-estimating , the other one wanted a few more prices cos everything like marble tops which are going to cost a fortune to get done . |