Example sentences of "[be] a [adj] pound " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let's say erm we forget about all that ten pound early and you owed me a hundred pounds , right , and I say erm forget that , just , just take it away , forget it it 's gone , you 're a hundred pounds better off . |
| 2 | because they 're a hundred pound less and then I then , I 'm up a , up a creak are n't I then ? |
| 3 | you know , and erm , our Kim , er , she , she goes to bloody extreme then , she 's picked a wardrobe , one wardrobe and a set of drawers , should of been a thousand pound and that bloke at Aston where she got her bed from , which she paid twelve hundred pound just for a bedhead |
| 4 | To his absolute delight the first trap had held what must have been a seven pound salmon , plus a couple of mullet which he had ignored . |
| 5 | And the houses are a thousand pounds each . |
| 6 | Because what happens , as soon as he 's , go goes back to work , it goes back down again , to what would be a thousand pounds for any future claims to start with again . |
| 7 | Christ , that 's gon na be a thousand pounds on a full comprehensive , just about . |
| 8 | I mean , that must be a thousand pounds ' worth of air tickets . |
| 9 | well Jessica I forked out a fiver for your birthday which I could n't afford how would you like to be a thousand pound overdrawn ? |
| 10 | how would you like to be a thousand pound overdrawn ? , you would n't like that would you ? would you ? |
| 11 | Well his 'll be a thousand pound for the operation , being a major operation , it will be the fact that it 's skull . |
| 12 | It 's not difficult with small creatures , but with the large ones it 's possible to be a hundred pounds or so out , and an overdose could be dangerous for the animal . |
| 13 | But even that can be a hundred pounds a week — still too much for many . |
| 14 | Thermal underwear may be a multi-million pound industry , but did you know that any article of clothing can be called thermal ? |
| 15 | I 'll give my share to your mother and you can tell her you bought it from me ; that way she 'll be content and you 'll be a few pounds better off . |
| 16 | Full fees were a hundred pounds a year and erm the Education Department ha had assessed my father 's contribution towards the fees at six shillings a week which was about fifteen pounds a year . |
| 17 | or whatever and they were a hundred pounds a week or |
| 18 | Erm , I I heard something over the weekend , that that erm , mentioned er an American drug company , that has come up with whatever drug and it 's moved from being a million pound concern , into a multi-million pound concern , because of these discoveries , |
| 19 | I mean if you 're a builder and you receive sixteen thousand , of , of that there 's a thousand pounds from Joe Bloggs builder whatnot , then the er the tax inspector will make a note , and pass on a little note to Joe Bloggs ' file that , yeah he paid Bill Smith a thousand pounds , and i that then should appear in his accounts , and if it does n't , then he 's a ripe subject for being investigated . |
| 20 | can I ask you , it 's a thousand pounds to sell two hundred and fifty of each of the four ? |
| 21 | It 's a thousand pounds . |
| 22 | What the hell does it matter , why pay about five hundred pounds and , and that 's two horses I 've got , that 's a thousand pounds . |
| 23 | That 's a thousand pound or plus a week . |
| 24 | Once you 've agreed the price if that 's a thousand pound or thousand pound page then you want thirty five percent of the first year 's payment . |
| 25 | there 's a thousand pound he said , you know , if you can make it right sort of over the next month but he said basically I can not do anything until erm the end of February , he said you come in the end of February he said and then we can start to sort it out , he said I ca n't do anything for you until then . |
| 26 | So that 's a thousand pound you messed up down there ! |
| 27 | the other school blazer 's a hundred pounds |
| 28 | If somebody 's saying to you do you want our guarantee — it 's fifty pounds , or it 's a hundred pounds — if you 're spending that sort of money you 'll probably pay out for it and you 'll think you 're covered for all sorts of things that might go wrong . |
| 29 | oh , something like that and you get three , three bars and that 's a hundred pound , I got fifteen pound did n't I , do n't you start . |
| 30 | when you go into the villa , A you 've , got to have a car because there 's not a shop and B you 're a long way from the airport and if you get taxis you 're talking about fifty pound a touch from the airport , so that 's twice , so there 's a hundred pound gone already |