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 .
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