Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [adj] pound [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I went down town yesterday and got some braising steak and it cost me five pounds sixty . |
| 2 | And a pint of milk 's thirty eight pence I think it cost me two pound thirty eight up here . |
| 3 | And er one or two got caught up occasionally now and then so we did erm have to go underneath because I was earning too much to get a free one it cost me seven pounds ten and I 've got the receipt for it . |
| 4 | He says no , he says we 've thought about it , I says well you really ought to have it I says if you 're dial dialling a lot of erm , cos they dial a lot of these insurance companies and er mortgage lenders , the head offices , they 're always out in Ottingham , I said the Mercury pin number only cost you seven pound fifty a year , I says you think you can save that in a week so er ha so erm he was on about it , he says who 's the cheapest for that ? |
| 5 | it was costing us two pound fifty per week |
| 6 | no cos you owe me seven pound fifty |
| 7 | Erm and what were you going to buy them that pound fifty ? |
| 8 | The bonus for me was that the money was so much better than Whiteleys , Instead of getting 36 bob for Thursday evening and all day Saturday , Malcolm paid me three pounds 10 shillings — almost twice as much — for the Saturday only . |
| 9 | Well this morning I were listening to er Roy Normal on the , the Welsh radio programmes and he was talking to er various people and he told one young woman who had been in a certain area in world where they were filming , er and she 'd gone to see this filming with Alan Ladd and all these , you know , and anyway she goes she went into the er local chip shop and the er assistant for the film , the labourer came in and ordered , ordered forty packet of chips and er and he was saying oh it were for film you see , so she thought I 'd go down and see what 's happening , so she went down to the pier end and they were all er doing the performance and er , the producer says now all you people there , he says that 's interested , he said would you all go onto the pier , he says and talk he says and read , make it , you know make it interesting , so they all piled onto the pier and er , they filmed what they had to film with the pier in the background and all the people that were on the pier , so this girl was on the film you know , then after it had finished , he thanked everybody , he says now then do n't walk off the pier , he says will you as you 're going off walk past this , the table at the end there and their bloke give them three pound ten a piece |
| 10 | I know I give you three pound one week . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | You owe her one pound sixty now . |
| 14 | I only give him one pound twenty . |
| 15 | And you see the problem with erm depending on the unit , the bid off the spread etcetera , sometimes they 're paying us one pound ninety and it actually ends up in a nu mi minus unit situation |
| 16 | Yeah it 's er I take the car back half term , if , you know , I do n't mind driving it down there , but the thing is how am I gon na get back if I drive it down , it 's gon na cost me forty pound fifty |
| 17 | Why does it cost me ten pounds fifty return from Darlington but if I take a single to Darlin to Darlington from York it costs me ten quid . |
| 18 | Have you got enough change to give her one pound fifty Jack ? |
| 19 | Erm we 've got we had two hundred and pounds fifteen pence on deposit which has raised us one pound ten pence interest over the year , leaving us at two hundred and twenty one pounds twenty five pence . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | cos you see I get she pays me forty pound extra on Saturday |
| 23 | So if I gave you one pound fifty |
| 24 | Her Mum give , her Mum gave her thirty pounds one Saturday , for nuffink right . |
| 25 | Kempton would have liked to have ridden Foinavon in the National himself but displayed loyalty to his owners on two counts — his minimum riding weight of 10 stone 10 pounds would put him 10 pounds overweight ; and he had another horse running at Worcester . |