Example sentences of "[pron] cost [pers pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Being adequately provided for , he was able to book himself into a downtown hotel which cost him three dollars per night , though he often failed to make it back to the hotel , finding the cosmopolitan and nocturnal life of the town there entirely to his liking : consecration dismantled !
2 I agree one hundred per cent with Graeme Souness when he insists it was that last 10 minutes in the Lenin Stadium which cost them eventual victory against Spartak Moscow .
3 The Irish team was lying second to Germany following Friday 's dressage but a fall on cross country by Karen Connelly to incur 60 penalties and a refusal by Sasha Harrison which cost them 20 penalties sent them out of the reckoning .
4 Murphy and Taggart led for much of the way but missed out a loop section of the route which cost them 30 marks and they dropped back .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 And the one cost me twenty quid and that lasted me just over a year .
8 they cost me much labour to raise from seed . ’
9 No if he cost him three X , what 's he gon na sell them for ?
10 She said , well we had to bu we , ma made it out that we had to buy erm the whole , the whole box , it cost them fifty pounds !
11 It cost me many night-hours the more because I was reading of one thing and thinking of another . ’
12 I went down town yesterday and got some braising steak and it cost me five pounds sixty .
13 The other week it cost me fifty quid to go to the , to get it tuned you know ?
14 And a pint of milk 's thirty eight pence I think it cost me two pound thirty eight up here .
15 Erm and it cost me two quid I think for the four .
16 It cost me two years of impoverishment , spending every dime on legal fees .
17 It cost me 300 rupees ( $19 ) . ’
18 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 .
19 It cost him two marriages .
20 It cost him three minutes and he fell back to 14th overall , but drove magnificently to recover much of the deficit and climb back to eighth by the end of the day , sharing two stage victories with McRae .
21 Well I said Angie said she went up Wicks ' and got her worktops and it cost her fifteen pound .
22 Bins in town and it cost her twenty quid !
23 You had to enter them as foals , and then when you entered them it cost you fifty pounds to enter them , and it cost you fifty pounds for every quarter of that lifetime of that foal .
24 You had to enter them as foals , and then when you entered them it cost you fifty pounds to enter them , and it cost you fifty pounds for every quarter of that lifetime of that foal .
25 Whereas before , it cost you twenty pound , it 's now gon na perhaps cost you twenty one pound .
26 what I 'm saying to you now is , I was saying to Arthur , the , the petrol money that we used to put in for petrol , it cost us five pound a week in the winter , but in the summer it cost us eight pound a week sometimes ten
27 We went to , I think it cost us nine pounds from where we were stopping in Lido to er , to go to er where this Madam
28 BIRMINGHAM manager Terry Cooper yesterday blasted live television coverage and said : ‘ It cost us 5,000 fans . ’
29 what I 'm saying to you now is , I was saying to Arthur , the , the petrol money that we used to put in for petrol , it cost us five pound a week in the winter , but in the summer it cost us eight pound a week sometimes ten
30 I mean they did n't pay for that it cost us more money .
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