Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [det] money " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the aeroplane broke up in the air or the engine fell apart then the designers could be at fault ; if navigation aids were not working properly a radio engineer could be responsible , or even the Director of Civil Aviation who failed to provide enough money for the maintenance of the aids . |
| 2 | I tried to put some money on the ‘ Stiffs ’ finishing bottom with the bookies . |
| 3 | He promised to send more money home as soon as he got paid , and he wanted her to look after his puppy , which he guessed by now would be a full-grown collie . |
| 4 | I 'd saved some money , grown heartily sick of London , fast food and maybe people , too , and I was getting out . |
| 5 | When we went to Portugal there was er a lass , we 'd saved some money and I said , I said do n't spend it all |
| 6 | By then she 'd saved enough money to go to Australia , but decided in the end that she could always travel later . |
| 7 | I 'd got some money . ’ |
| 8 | The reason some of them failed to go to the causal ward is because they used to do a little bit of begging , and if they 'd got enough money they would perhaps pay to go into a common lodging house . |
| 9 | That was the first time I 'd had any money out of gigging in a year . |
| 10 | He told her he 'd drawn some money from the bank . |
| 11 | Erm , I do n't know how they live , yet they always seemed to have enough money you know . |
| 12 | He was a legit , braceleted , but he never seemed to have any money , and somehow he seemed to avoid the gangs , legit and illegit , that roamed the upper Levels . |
| 13 | But , as far as I was concerned , he was just another rockabilly who 'd park his flash motor out the front and seemed to have more money than all the rest of us put together . |
| 14 | Mum always bragged about never borrowing off anyone but I had noticed that since Dad had been on short time she seemed to have more money than ever to spend and was getting more friendly with the neighbours she could not stand as a rule . |
| 15 | They seemed to have more money . |
| 16 | We agreed to give more money to the French for agriculture . |
| 17 | The Northern Echo revealed last month that Darlington council failed to give any money to celebrate the anniversary of North Road railway station . |
| 18 | With his help I arranged to invest some money in a shipping company called Clarrikers . |
| 19 | After I began to earn more money than he did . |
| 20 | The government started printing more money soon after the savings-freeze and inflation has picked up again . |
| 21 | ‘ Before your father went to receive that money , he came to see me , ’ continued Mr Brownlow slowly , his eyes fixed on Monks ' face . |
| 22 | Gabriel Oak was a sensible man of good character , who had been brought up by his father as a shepherd , and then managed to save enough money to rent his own farm on Norcombe Hill , in Dorset . |
| 23 | By contrast , the rational expectations hypothesis , when applied to the theory of inflation , appeared to indicate that money would be neutral in the short run also , thereby denying any role to policy activism . |
| 24 | and even if you think no I would n't really spend the money to make myself more beautiful , you think , oh maybe , if I really , if I did have that money would I do it ? |
| 25 | It would have surprised Claudia if Dana did have any money ; she earned a great deal but spent it as fast as she made it , and , while it made sense for Roman to bring her under his wing , Claudia resented it fiercely . |
| 26 | She liked to save any money she got off Nigel and had her own private account in a building society the other side of London . |
| 27 | No , I had to borrow some money off Maggie this morning to pay me bill . |
| 28 | Afterwards Chudnovsky went to Semenov and , apparently , in the course of their conversation he notified him that he had received some money from Costakis . |
| 29 | He stuck with his ideas , and for a year did all kinds of manual work as a casual labourer till he eventually had amassed enough money to start a grocery business with a friend . |
| 30 | In December 1991 , the Danish art magazine Pist Protta published a list of the one hundred Danish artists who had earned most money in 1990 . |