Example sentences of "[pron] cost [pers pn] [num] " in BNC.

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1 I 've also got an Explorer which cost me four hundred bucks — mind you , there 's no case with that .
2 He had some stuff nicked , a ski jacket which cost me seventy five quid it were half , the rest it should of been a hundred and fifty
3 Being adequately provided for , he was able to book himself into a downtown hotel which cost him three dollars per night , though he often failed to make it back to the hotel , finding the cosmopolitan and nocturnal life of the town there entirely to his liking : consecration dismantled !
4 Jamie ran up a quadruple-bogey 8 of which cost him thousands of pounds .
5 The Irish team was lying second to Germany following Friday 's dressage but a fall on cross country by Karen Connelly to incur 60 penalties and a refusal by Sasha Harrison which cost them 20 penalties sent them out of the reckoning .
6 Murphy and Taggart led for much of the way but missed out a loop section of the route which cost them 30 marks and they dropped back .
7 A good example is Dances With Wolves which cost us four thousand as a and has already sold over a hundred and twenty thousand copies .
8 He receives for his employment a take home pay of seventy three pounds per week , he lives with his parents and pays a board of twenty pounds per week he 's fortunate in that his employer takes him to work in the mornings but he has to catch the bus home in the evening and at lunchtime on Saturdays which costs him seven pounds forty .
9 He 's fortunate in that his employer takes him to work in the mornings but he has to catch the bus home in the evening and a at lunchtime on Saturdays which costs him seven pounds forty .
10 And the one cost me twenty quid and that lasted me just over a year .
11 Yeah , yeah dining chairs , six dining chairs they cost me seventy , I spent over thirty already on materials for the top material the foam you know it 's , everything 's so dear now is n't it ?
12 They cost me three hundred and fifty , they 're brand new .
13 No if he cost him three X , what 's he gon na sell them for ?
14 But the thing that fascinated me last night was the statistic about Gillette do you know they said when Gillette started When Gillette started doing the erm Gillette Cup , it cost them five thousand a year .
15 But then it cost them sixteen thousand did n't it ?
16 She said , well we had to bu we , ma made it out that we had to buy erm the whole , the whole box , it cost them fifty pounds !
17 I went down town yesterday and got some braising steak and it cost me five pounds sixty .
18 The other week it cost me fifty quid to go to the , to get it tuned you know ?
19 It cost me six hundred bucks — three hundred pounds ! — makes you want to vomit on your parents does n't it !
20 Just nineteen ten , that cost that much , you got to be joking , it cost me fifteen fourteen when I use to get .
21 It cost me two years of impoverishment , spending every dime on legal fees .
22 Erm and it cost me two quid I think for the four .
23 And a pint of milk 's thirty eight pence I think it cost me two pound thirty eight up here .
24 It cost me 300 rupees ( $19 ) . ’
25 Well I got me shopping and it cost me forty summat one .
26 And er one or two got caught up occasionally now and then so we did erm have to go underneath because I was earning too much to get a free one it cost me seven pounds ten and I 've got the receipt for it .
27 It cost him two marriages .
28 One farmer told the authors that it cost him 194,000 Somali shillings ( $14 ) to grow 100 kilos ( 220lbs ) of maize , which he could sell for a mere 55,000 shillings at the local market .
29 It cost him three minutes and he fell back to 14th overall , but drove magnificently to recover much of the deficit and climb back to eighth by the end of the day , sharing two stage victories with McRae .
30 So , sh I mean , it cost her thirty five pounds !
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