Example sentences of "five pounds " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was like Frazer 's looking into the ‘ abysm of time ’ , but it was a vision only imperfectly appreciated by Charlie Mears , as the narrator of ‘ The Finest Story in the World ’ emphasizes : ‘ Above all , he was absolutely ignorant of the knowledge sold to me for five pounds ; and he would retain that ignorance , for bank-clerks do not understand metempsychosis , and a sound commercial education does not include Greek . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Give me five pounds ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Then if there 's time she wants a ‘ Guess the Weight ’ cake making as well — I 've got to make it look as if it weighs five pounds when it really weighs ten . ’ |
| 4 | Meanwhile , we have a cheque for five pounds , and no reply from the furriers . |
| 5 | The gulf which had opened up between them was apparent from the weights for the Gallaher Gold Cup : Arkle was set to carry twelve stone seven pounds , Mill House eleven stone five pounds , a difference of sixteen pounds . |
| 6 | Red Rum was saddled with a mere ten stone five pounds . |
| 7 | Down on the river front of Old Chiswick , the firm of Thornycroft 's continued to be busily occupied with their boat building , and one of their employees , Mr. R. T. Smith , made an approach to his engineer employer , John Donaldson , who was a good Scottish Presbyterian with strong Christian principles , for a loan of five pounds in order to enable him ( R. T. Smith ) to start a coffee stall in Church Street , in an endeavour to keep some of the other employees away from their regular visits to the Lamb Tap Inn . |
| 8 | By morning she had lost five pounds , there was no right pelvic pain or ovarian swelling , and she felt much better generally . |
| 9 | He told me that if I bought this land at five pounds a dunum , he and his friend would buy it from me at twenty-five a dunum . |
| 10 | They decided to put five pounds a week into a fund from their dole giros . |
| 11 | The sisters exchanged glances , then Miss Belle and Miss Florence nodded towards their elder sister and guide , and she , turning to Agnes said , ‘ Mrs Bretton-Fawcett said we could get five pounds of anyone 's money for it . |
| 12 | ‘ Must be five pounds at least , ’ Billy yelled , as he desperately tried to keep the shoal penned between the four of them . |
| 13 | He was surprised , there was not an ounce of fat on him , but he had shed five pounds . |
| 14 | Out of that she had to pay all expenses , including animal feed and coal , which left around five pounds a month for food . |
| 15 | The food bill had risen to five pounds a month and , with being so tired with all the work , I suppose I neglected myself . |
| 16 | As you might imagine my monthly food bill has gone up quite appreciably , far more than the five pounds a month just before the programme Too Long a Winter was made . |
| 17 | Beno was fined five pounds and told to get a job more suitable to his talents . |
| 18 | It would have been easy for you to lose five pounds ’ worth of lead as you saddled up . |
| 19 | A mock ‘ Petition of the Pawnbrokers ’ said the petitioners who were in the business of lending small sums on pledges were not legally justified in charging more than five pounds for the loan of a hundred pounds for a year . |
| 20 | Many would regularly ‘ pop their ticker ’ — pawn the watch they may have bought for five pounds , on which they may have raised forty pounds or more in loans , as Melanie Tebbutt showed in Making Ends Meet ( 1983 ) . |
| 21 | ‘ Give the Germans five Deutschmarks and they will save it ’ , said John Major as Chancellor of the Exchequer , ‘ but give the British five pounds and they will borrow £25 and spend it . ’ |
| 22 | Another example : imagine that you buy a bar of chocolate , and later discover that you were short-changed by five pounds . |
| 23 | They were placed in a corner clutching over five pounds worth of raffle tickets each . |
| 24 | The magistrate summarily tried cases in the police court , where the maximum punishment was three months imprisonment , twenty lashes , a fine of five pounds , or any two of the above . |
| 25 | He finished three lengths behind Monday 's Welsh National winner Run For Free first time out at Haydock when conceding five pounds , and was six lengths in front of The Fellow in the Hennessy , receiving 25lb from the subsequent King George winner . |
| 26 | Yet all turned out for the best : on 20 July 1836 , Daniel Jones returned Benjamin his indenture , only too pleased to inscribe on the back of it the fact that he had appreciated the boy 's seven years with him , and making him a generous gift of five pounds in the process . |
| 27 | And my Will is that William Moore ( Carpenter if living ) shall make my Coffin and that the same shall be covered with Black Cloth and nailed with White Nails and to be of the value of Five Pounds or thereabouts . |
| 28 | The constituent parts of a top-quality coffin of the period would have been as follows : a 1½-inch inner elm coffin with recessed lid , lined and covered with cambric — no depositum plate ; a lead shell of five pounds — i.e. five pounds ' weight per square foot — diapered and with lead depositum plate ; an outer case of 1½-inch elm or oak , padded and covered with rich scarlet Genoese or black Utrecht velvet ; four pairs of gilt grip-plates and grips ; two rows round of gilt-headed upholstery nails ; and escutcheons , lid motifs and brass or lead depositum plate . |
| 29 | The constituent parts of a top-quality coffin of the period would have been as follows : a 1½-inch inner elm coffin with recessed lid , lined and covered with cambric — no depositum plate ; a lead shell of five pounds — i.e. five pounds ' weight per square foot — diapered and with lead depositum plate ; an outer case of 1½-inch elm or oak , padded and covered with rich scarlet Genoese or black Utrecht velvet ; four pairs of gilt grip-plates and grips ; two rows round of gilt-headed upholstery nails ; and escutcheons , lid motifs and brass or lead depositum plate . |
| 30 | ‘ I owe five pounds an' some interest if yer must know , ’ Mum shouted . |