Example sentences of "cost him [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His twenty-rod patch cost him twelve shillings a year in rent and produced not only sufficient potatoes to feed the family from late May round to April the following year , but also a variety of other vegetables . |
| 2 | Biasion 's puncture cost him two minutes and he ended the day two minutes and six seconds behind Fiorio . |
| 3 | It cost him two marriages . |
| 4 | It cost him three minutes and he fell back to 14th overall , but drove magnificently to recover much of the deficit and climb back to eighth by the end of the day , sharing two stage victories with McRae . |
| 5 | No if he cost him three X , what 's he gon na sell them for ? |
| 6 | Being adequately provided for , he was able to book himself into a downtown hotel which cost him three dollars per night , though he often failed to make it back to the hotel , finding the cosmopolitan and nocturnal life of the town there entirely to his liking : consecration dismantled ! |
| 7 | And it was costing him fifty P a week . |
| 8 | His taste was individual : he had a pink suit and matching overcoat , both of thick wool , that cost him 3000 Marks ( the fee for a three-act ballet ) ; they were worn with an orange tie . |
| 9 | No he 's on a round the world ticket , it 's cost him eleven pound . |
| 10 | Those offences cost him four matches . |
| 11 | The last two holes however were a ‘ mine field ’ in a sunshine wind and cost him five shots apiece for an inward half of 35 . |
| 12 | Phil 's just landed on it , it 's only cost him fifty quid ! |
| 13 | He receives for his employment a take home pay of seventy three pounds per week , he lives with his parents and pays a board of twenty pounds per week he 's fortunate in that his employer takes him to work in the mornings but he has to catch the bus home in the evening and at lunchtime on Saturdays which costs him seven pounds forty . |
| 14 | He 's fortunate in that his employer takes him to work in the mornings but he has to catch the bus home in the evening and a at lunchtime on Saturdays which costs him seven pounds forty . |
| 15 | In my letter I mentioned the particular case of the Times Motoring correspondent who found that the return Brighton — Birmingham rail fare would cost him four times as much as the price of petrol for a car journey , despite driving a not especially economical car . |
| 16 | So if he wants a hundred thousand , for every ten thousand it 's one pound fifty seven , it 's going to cost him fifteen pounds seventy , and add two pounds , it 's seventeen seventy . |
| 17 | The title alone had cost him two weeks ' work . |
| 18 | It had cost him twenty-five shillings , but worth it because of not being able to keep it out of the library long . |
| 19 | Moreover , the fact that the embassy had already been delayed in Dover for a fortnight had cost him 14,000 crowns even before these further disasters . |
| 20 | Shane Warne , whose solitary wicket of the series had cost him 228 runs , was rested , while Tom Moody came in for the out-of-form Mark Waugh . |