Example sentences of "[vb infin] cost i " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly if I had been doing all the restoration work myself it would n't have cost me so much because I am the cheapest worker in this outfit . |
| 2 | This sort of complacency could have cost me my life . |
| 3 | I paid three times what it would have cost me to make it ! |
| 4 | To have funked it , and then known I had let him off lightly , would have cost me even more sleepless nights . |
| 5 | I bought these Levi 501 's for £25 back home they would have cost me double that . ’ |
| 6 | I remember , again a few years ago , visiting India and buying one or two beautifully carved tables , which had obviously been carved by an individual spending quite a lot of time doing it , and I was impressed at that stage , rather naively perhaps , that if in fact I 'd bought a plain table , an uncarved one , it would have cost me about ten times as much , for the simple reason that that would require a milling machine which was not normally available , and such was the erm economy that it was cheaper for people to do this . |