Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [art] pound " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rapid weight loss may have made you feel good at the time , but depression and frustration soon set in as the pounds or kilos slowly creep back on again . |
| 2 | In for a penny , in for a pound , that 's what I say . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ In for a penny , in for a pound ! ’ exclaimed Lindsay with reckless abandon to his wife , who was sitting next to him . |
| 4 | In for a penny , in for a pound , ’ Mr Bean asked . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's done now — in for a penny , in for a pound . |
| 6 | She hesitated , thought ‘ In for a penny , In for a pound ! ’ and began to walk towards the ramshackle bungalow behind the stables . |
| 7 | Well , in for a penny , in for a pound . |
| 8 | In for a penny in for a pound ! |
| 9 | City : New Chancellor floats in with the pound |
| 10 | These I put inside a paper bag , along with a pound note and a hastily drawn picture of a devil and a donkey . |
| 11 | At the same time the first family could be no better off as every pound gained is deducted from income support . |
| 12 | LEEDS UNITED 'S Steve Hodge was last night lined up for a Pounds 700,000 move to Everton . |
| 13 | fictitious site of the shooting picnic at which Pickwick drinks too much punch and end up in the pound . |
| 14 | Later on , I believe , the pay went up to a pound or even twenty-five shillings for a man , horse and cart . |
| 15 | Fruit grew on the compound : a few bananas , lemons , mangoes , pawpaw and avocado pears weighing up to a pound and a half . |
| 16 | Meanwhile back at Tenbury , the holly and mistletoe were fetching up to a pound for a pound in weight . |
| 17 | Later the Treasury claimed Mr Lamont stood by his remarks about events leading up to the pound 's ERM suspension , but apologised for Press comments . |
| 18 | I 'm nearly seventy , er my pension , will be going up by a pound and odd , I 'm not right sure how much . |
| 19 | CRYSTAL PALACE manager Steve Coppell has pulled out of a Pounds 150,000 deal to sign Yugoslavian international defender Vujadin Stanoikovic from Partizan Belgrade . |
| 20 | And will I get three out of a pound ? |
| 21 | Erm ten pence out of a pound ninety pence . |
| 22 | Forty pence out of a pound what would that , roughly is it about half or about a quarter or what ? |
| 23 | And what about ten P out of a pound ? |
| 24 | Er now so what fraction of the total , forty out of a pound . |
| 25 | With each step more things can be let out of the pound ; exact discussions can be made less abstract , realistic discussions can be made less inexact than was possible at an earlier stage . |
| 26 | They 've cut it down and agreed I pay the arrears back at a pound a week . |
| 27 | As they rolled on to the pound meadowland , Gabriel climbed down inside the cart so as to stay hidden until the right dramatic moment . |
| 28 | Reeves Round About A Pound A Week ( Virago : 1979 ) |
| 29 | It is a replacement , we were losing that money erm because the , the water meter was going round at a pound an hour . |