Example sentences of "[verb] cost [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The area cost adjustment which the er government takes out of the total S S A's of some two hundred million has gone to the south-east , I hope none goes to Westminster , and that has cost us one point three million . |
2 | So the the whole operation has cost us fifteen pounds . |
3 | So , if it 's really going to cost me fifty pound the cubic metre to pour concrete and happen to have forty pound the cubic metre , then it 'll show up in the plan that mm , I 'm not doing to well here , because there was n't a big enough allowance . |
4 | Right , so , if it was going to cost me twenty pound a month for fifty thousand pounds worth of life cover , and I wanted to pay it annually , I 'd have to pay it twelve times , I 'd have to pay two hundred and forty pounds . |
5 | If you tell them that to get exactly what they need it 's going to cost them thirty pounds a month , and is n't it a brilliant contract , they 'll probably have that . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | Tom Whidden , Conner 's friend , tactician and president of North Sails , turned to Conner after Monday 's final race and said : ‘ This is going to cost you big time . ’ |
8 | Just that they , they 're not willing to do it for nothing , and it 's going to cost you twenty pounds a time on top of the P A hire . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | The title alone had cost him two weeks ' work . |
12 | It had cost him twenty-five shillings , but worth it because of not being able to keep it out of the library long . |
13 | Moreover , the fact that the embassy had already been delayed in Dover for a fortnight had cost him 14,000 crowns even before these further disasters . |
14 | Shane Warne , whose solitary wicket of the series had cost him 228 runs , was rested , while Tom Moody came in for the out-of-form Mark Waugh . |
15 | Little Ben was an aged , ugly , and apparently indestructible pocket watch that had cost my paternal grandfather five shillings when he was a Benedict 's houseman . |