Example sentences of "[vb pp] a [num] pound " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh shit you 've won a thousand pounds |
| 2 | Now , I 've won a thousand pounds in the United Kingdom . |
| 3 | Have I won a thousand pounds ? |
| 4 | Has anyone rung up and told me I 've won a million pounds ? |
| 5 | When you know you have located a one pound coin before you dig it up , you can call yourself an expert detectorist . |
| 6 | A woman who claims to be a leading sheep breeder has been fined a thousand pounds for cruelty . |
| 7 | ‘ You have n't got a thousand pounds , ’ said Mrs Wexford . |
| 8 | So , you 've got a client who for whatever reason , is , is unable to er , afford the premiums , and providing they 've got a thousand pounds in the fund , they can elect to the , the plan made paid up , whereby the life cover is sustained by the fund and all the other charges , and it 's sustained until the fund runs dry . |
| 9 | That seems to me , to need a lot of thinking about , because if you 've got difficult children , ra the last thing we want to do is think you 've got a thousand pound fine or so . |
| 10 | The number of people involved in the sort of work there was er something like twelve to twelve and fifteen people er added up er responsible for A B C. So it did n't make any sense to us to think well if Leeds have got a million pound practice there , why have we got nothing here . |
| 11 | I mean , I 've only got a five pound note . |
| 12 | I went to change me poll tax and er I says to her , I says , I should be court to Monday oh she says you 've got a fifteen pound court thing , I says aye , she says oh well that 's fifteen pound , I says it 's not cos I 'm not paying it I says I 'm not paying the fifteen pound to the court , I says , I says how come last year I did n't pay right round to February last year I said and yet I , your last payment 's next month , you know , she said oh well they 're stricter this year she says , she , if you 'd pay the half year you 'd of been alright |
| 13 | Have I got a fifty pound ? |
| 14 | ‘ I 've — I 've only got a hundred pounds in traveller 's cheques . |
| 15 | Lot number seventy seven Lot seventy seven Lot number seventy seven is showing for you and I 've got a hundred pounds offered for it and ten , twenty , at one hundred and twenty pounds at a hundred and twenty pounds , one twenty , you all done ? |
| 16 | But we have n't got a hundred pounds to give them . |
| 17 | but still I 've got a hundred pound in there , you have seventy one , seventy two pound worth , plenty stuff |
| 18 | Cos she 's got a hundred pound |
| 19 | He said she 's got a ten pounds bonus because I paid for the . |
| 20 | I 've got a ten pound note I suppose . |
| 21 | When he was killed he had had a hundred pounds on him . |
| 22 | Lot number eight Lot eight there we are there it is showing to you , Lot number eight and I 'm offered a hundred pounds to start me on it , one hundred pounds and ten , twenty , one hundred and twenty pounds at a hundred and twenty pounds all s all done at one twenty , one thirty , forty a hundred and forty pounds selling for one hundred and forty pounds , any more at one hundred and forty pounds . |
| 23 | Lot number thirty five Lot number thirty five there we are , there it is showing , Lot number thirty five , eighty pounds for this one , at eighty , eighty five , ninety , ninety five , one hundred is offered I 'm offered a hundred pounds and selling for one hundred , all done ? |
| 24 | A mother has offered a hundred pound reward to catch the man who shot her ten year old son in the head with an air rifle . |
| 25 | Now , I hope I 've got these facts right and I 'm sure that not , that Eileen may correct me that er we have er forty hundred pounds in the budget , budget for this er the erm South Wales congregation has , has kindly erm given us grant of a thousand pounds and I understand from the secretary of con , Cardiff congregation , and he 's also offered a thousand pounds I do n't know whether we 've got that yet ? |
| 26 | It is no use telling a man who has received a thousand pounds a year in giro cheques that he has the means to better himself . |
| 27 | sort of been given a hundred pound upstairs . |
| 28 | Rumours have suggested Susan Hill was given a million pounds for writing it , she says she got nothing like that amount . |
| 29 | He grew it , merged it with an American company , then a few years later , having developed a multimillion pound empire , cast around for a new challenge . |
| 30 | As a result of his intervention , the Chambers of Mr S. C. Stamler QC have covenanted a thousand pounds a year to the Law Library ‘ for the foreseeable future ’ . |