Example sentences of "it cost [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On our first day of trading we took £8.36 , which delighted us , but a local health nut had eaten the geraniums and it cost £6 to replace them . |
| 2 | It cost money to grow obsolete ever faster . |
| 3 | The thing is that I could n't cancel the draft — it cost £6.50 to get it , and would have cost another £12.00 to get it annulled . |
| 4 | The error was spotted after work began and it cost £70,000 to raise the bridge . |
| 5 | It cost £90,000 to install just this one sign . |
| 6 | ‘ I read somewhere that it cost £30,000 to do the season nowadays . |
| 7 | 200 years ago , it cost tuppence to cross the Thames at Pangbourne . |
| 8 | It cost £300,000 to build , a vast sum for the time , and Murray 's Handbook for Travellers in India , Burma , and Ceylon , with typical travel-guide hyperbole , described it as the finest railway station in India or any country . |
| 9 | In 1785 it cost £63,174 to build the 100-gun ship Victory . |
| 10 | Sewerage charges add roughly as much again to the bill : it costs 1p to flush a toilet , and other comparative costs include : shower , 3.5p ; dishwater , 5.5p ; bath 8p ; washing machine , 11p ; garden hose for one hour , 54p . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've heard it costs pounds to stay in hotels in places like that . ’ |
| 12 | John thanked the staff for their generosity and went on to explain that it costs £1.5m to run the hospice for a year . |
| 13 | For it costs money to immunise needy children , investigate AIDS and treat TB , train more minimum wage workers to break out of poverty and help the displaced , including those let go from a shrinking military . |
| 14 | It costs money to get in , have you thought of that ? ’ |
| 15 | That 's the main problem , if we want to go anywhere , it costs money to get there . |
| 16 | sure but again I mean if there was a market for this I am sure that to take that and splinter it off into a unit it costs money to get people that want to come into this business |
| 17 | It costs money to maintain and advantage your interests in the childbirth field . |
| 18 | Just as it costs peanuts to get oil out of a hole in the ground , it costs peanuts to put rubbish into one — so long as the oil , or the space , lasts . |
| 19 | Just as it costs peanuts to get oil out of a hole in the ground , it costs peanuts to put rubbish into one — so long as the oil , or the space , lasts . |
| 20 | It costs £40 to register , via Compu Tag ( UK ) Ltd on 0424 730760 or Polygon Insurance on 048 171 6000 . |
| 21 | It costs £40,000 to train and keep in service one Nurse for three years . |
| 22 | It costs £250m to put on racing ; punters bet £4 billion every year on the results . |
| 23 | Normally it costs £3.00 to join , but here 's the great news ! |
| 24 | It costs £20 to join and all members are shareholders . |
| 25 | It costs $200 to attend . |
| 26 | It costs £74,000 to put the 348 GT on the road and nearly as much again to take it to Le Mans . |
| 27 | Of course it costs $700 to go . |
| 28 | Secondly , as my hon. Friend the Member for Neath ( Mr. Hain ) reminded the House , the Audit Commission has said that it costs £15 to collect £8 . |