Example sentences of "[pron] a [num] pound " in BNC.
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| 1 | Falstaff is forcibly returned to prose , ‘ knapp 'd o'th'coxcomb ’ by verse , and subsides to his own level : ‘ Master Shallow , I owe you a thousand pound ’ . |
| 2 | So if someone had come up to you , and said , Well look , you you bet three pound , to have a go and if you get a four aces , I 'll give you a million pound , then it 's worth it . |
| 3 | If your father is a millionaire and gives you a five pound note for your birthday , then you might feel a little hard done by ; such a gift would be given out of his riches ; it would n't be according to his riches . |
| 4 | Do you still owe me a thirty pound ? |
| 5 | Is my dad gon na give me a hundred pound ? |
| 6 | So you owe me a hundred pound . |
| 7 | When Len sent them a five pound order , or ten pound |
| 8 | Jean the whole point about it is I gave him I , I gave him a thousand pound worth of work and one fella , a young fella ah Raymond look at that , and he gives him twenty off the drink for a year and after the year |
| 9 | he 's after something , h his apprenticeship so they give him a thousand pound |
| 10 | Winnie held him a five pound note . |
| 11 | Got on one tube and that broke down from the end of she 's at Liverpool Street then she had to go different end to Oxford Street , but she ended up in Charing Cross then she got on another tube line at Charing Cross and then that broke down , so she said it took hours , then she gave a taxi , had to get a taxi back to Oxford Street and , and from Oxford Street back to Waterloo and it 's four pound and he gave her a change for a tenner instead , and she gave him a twenty pound note but , you know she 's absolutely haggard , so I said it 's just as well she can have a cup of tea before she goes , I just told her briefly about that so , erm , Carla 's a bit late ai n't she ? |
| 12 | . I gi him a twenty pound note and he give me some change . |
| 13 | pay her a hundred pound a week ! |
| 14 | and I said yeah she said that lady sent her a ten pound note . |
| 15 | They gave us a thousand pound , that is really very important , I think , and we 're most grateful . |
| 16 | And cost us a thousand pound . |