Example sentences of "[verb] cost [pron] [num] [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 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 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 | The title alone had cost him two weeks ' work . |
| 11 | It had cost him twenty-five shillings , but worth it because of not being able to keep it out of the library long . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |