Example sentences of "[pers pn] [num] pence " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They 'll give me fifty pence for that at the souvenir shop , ’ Adam said . |
| 2 | She sells them to me fifty pence a packet . |
| 3 | ‘ I only charged them fifty pence so we wo n't get rich on that , but it 's probably done our reputation a lot of good . ’ |
| 4 | Oh I thought it was one of them fifty pence ones . |
| 5 | She still owe me forty pence . |
| 6 | Now so that 's two each , you owe me thirteen pence yes ? and it 's your box |
| 7 | Rosalind said it must go tonight , and she gave me three pence for a lolly to stamp it and post it . ’ |
| 8 | A hundred grams , for one bar , costs you twenty eight pence , right , and then another one that 's two hundred grams and it 'll cost you fifty pence . |
| 9 | You 've only got to go up here , they only charge you ten pence for a sheet , get a great big , actually I could type . |
| 10 | we owe you two pence |
| 11 | if I went up and down it would cost me eighty pence . |
| 12 | Give me ten pence . |
| 13 | So me say all me want is a poun " to get in [ inaudible ] and me ten pence bus fare . |
| 14 | but we used to take them to the pictures on Saturday afternoon my mum used to give me nine pence |
| 15 | ‘ Are you giving me five pence or five peas for the milk ? |
| 16 | The defendant in Allen v. Simmons ( 1978 Q.B.D. ) offered just one set of glasses and asked his audience who would pay him 30 pence for the set . |
| 17 | and then , that week , he sell 's ten pence a can , then the following week he still bought it ten pence , following week it goes up to eighteen pence , but he 's still selling what , so I do n't think it , I think . |
| 18 | Quick give me four pence please . |
| 19 | You have given me thirty pence . |
| 20 | but er Barry come off her husband and he said oh you going down oh I says aye , he saves us fifty pence and I got you in your bread and a pie , right , er I want the erm , did Billy take the dishes up ? |
| 21 | Er they wanted to charge us eighty pence per transaction , and after a lot of argument we managed to pin them down er at er ten pounds for the at at the rate of two pounds fifty per quarter . |
| 22 | Er had they got their way every time we put a cheque in or took one out or moved money from one account to another it would have cost us eighty pence , which meant that had anybody paid their their fees to the er and made the cheque payable to us directly , we would have had to bank that cheque and then reissue another cheque er to the appropriate department and that would have cost us one pound sixty , for which we 'd have got nothing . |