Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [pers pn] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Baroness Burdett-Coutts lent them £50,000 and the princess 's mother made regular contributions . |
| 2 | Beating Faldo cost me £90,000 |
| 3 | However , their budgets are small : the 1988 Action for Cities programme granted them £20 million . |
| 4 | According to the Nilson Report , a Californian publication that follows the industry , Citibank 's Visa/MasterCard and Sears ' Discover cards have roughly the same number of holders ( 20.4m and 21.6m respectively ) , but Citibank 's card brought it $600m in net revenue against Discover 's $117m last year . |
| 5 | An unknown benefactor gave them £100 , and they received a legacy for £200 ‘ to be distributed to the full list of everyone in Fleet jail ’ . |
| 6 | My constituency association supported me 100pc . ’ |
| 7 | After commenting that not all the defendant 's statements appeared to be of a similar literary merit , the judge fined him $2,000 . |
| 8 | In that same month Warcup had several meetings with the king and his ministers , Laurence Hyde , later first Earl of Rochester , and Sir Leoline Jenkins [ qq.v. ] ; and on 4 March the council ordered him £1,500 by privy seal , for his expenses . |
| 9 | The royal commission on awards to inventors awarded him £12,000 in 1948 for his work on the bridge . |
| 10 | When he landed the part with Gielgud , for instance , Binkie Beaumont offered him £10 a week . |
| 11 | Even in the early years , Piper 's percentage gave him $8,000 a year , making him amongst the highest paid men in Australia . |
| 12 | It does seem though , that nothing came of these leases , and during 1749 upon request by Sir William Fleming , one John Lawson ( a Quaker ) sent up Joseph Vipone to see the mines at Coniston and for this Lawson paid him 12s. plus 4s. for a horse for four days . |
| 13 | He had been prosperous after the seige of Arcot ; after Plassey the new Nawab gave him £234,000 in cash and the right to land rents of £27,000 a year , which made him as rich as a great territorial magnate like the Duke of Newcastle . |
| 14 | Awarded a free place at Birmingham University to study music for three years , Peter was short of basics like clothes and books until Elaine Blond gave him £30 and arranged for Peter to work at Bloomsbury House in his holidays to help make up any shortfall . |
| 15 | I 've lived carefully , and I 've got some savings — and old Mr. Stavanger left me £2,000 in his will — because of my father , you see . |
| 16 | They look like extras from Mary Poppins , ’ she joked.A visit to the home of an old Nepali woman in Dharan town left her moved.As she came out of the tiny thatch-roofed hut with mud floors and no electricity , in which she was huddled with the old woman for several minutes , she said : ‘ I shall never complain again . ’ |
| 17 | Sheriff Presslie fined him £300 . |
| 18 | When one of the clocks failed Aerospatiale charged him £1,200 for a replacement ! |
| 19 | Even after being suspended 16 days ago , Mr Onanuga said he was certain Mr Lamont paid him £18.36 for three bottles of wine and two packets of Hamlet on the crucial Monday . |
| 20 | The court fined her £40 |
| 21 | The court fined her £40 . ’ |
| 22 | The 22-year-old 's eighth professional outing brought her £8,250 for her one-shot win ahead of Laura Davies and Gillian Stewart . |
| 23 | One day at rehearsal , to cheer up Dame Edith , the producers gave her £1,000 to go to Hardy Amies so that he could design a new wardrobe for her . |
| 24 | Unemployed roadsweeper Mickey Reid , 39 , of Enniskillen , County Fermanagh , hit the jackpot when his £4 Lotto ticket won him £1.8m . |
| 25 | The money-lender gave her £20 and took a further charge on her furniture — Bill of Sale no 1 . |
| 26 | Last week Mr Takeshita admitted that , in addition to the 12,000 shares that came his way , Recruit slipped him ¥20m just before his bid for the prime ministership in 1987 . |
| 27 | Guessing correctly that Bobby was hard up , Bacon gave him £5 and told him to get a meal at Wheeler 's . |
| 28 | Cuddling Alex , Mary Demetriou said her £10,000 , two-year legal battle had been worth it . |
| 29 | The higher profits and improved interim dividend payout lifted it 4p to 184p . |
| 30 | The higher profits and improved interim dividend payout lifted it 4p to 184p . |