Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [num] pounds " in BNC.
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1 | I went down town yesterday and got some braising steak and it cost me five pounds sixty . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | 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 ! |
4 | You had to enter them as foals , and then when you entered them it cost you fifty pounds to enter them , and it cost you fifty pounds for every quarter of that lifetime of that foal . |
5 | You had to enter them as foals , and then when you entered them it cost you fifty pounds to enter them , and it cost you fifty pounds for every quarter of that lifetime of that foal . |
6 | We went to , I think it cost us nine pounds from where we were stopping in Lido to er , to go to er where this Madam |
7 | My Mum works for Jane in there , in the alarm business and Jane paid me five pounds . |
8 | paid me two pounds . |
9 | The bonus for me was that the money was so much better than Whiteleys , Instead of getting 36 bob for Thursday evening and all day Saturday , Malcolm paid me three pounds 10 shillings — almost twice as much — for the Saturday only . |
10 | Presently he came out and handed us ten pounds in gold and a cheque for ninety pounds from Coutts 's Bank . |
11 | Taking a less sanguine view , the court fined him ten pounds . |
12 | He gave me twenty pounds . ’ |
13 | you see Sister makes all these arrangements , it 's she who does so many of the arrangements , she has made the arrangements about there being no coffee , several people have come to me and said I do n't know why you 've got to stop coffee because we can always go over and have lunch anyway , you know , er after the coffee , but Jean came to me she said look I 'm giving you this , and she gave me three pounds , she said I would much rather that was put into this , there your charity thing than take it across the hall , she said my Margaret wo n't go over there any more , because they , they say , you know , put in for your lunch what it would cost |
14 | I gave you two pounds yesterday . ’ |
15 | Her Mum give , her Mum gave her thirty pounds one Saturday , for nuffink right . |
16 | Lyn gave him two pounds . |
17 | Yes cos I gave father the money for whatever it was , so , yeah , I gave him five pounds worth of change |