Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] cost [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At last I had five pounds — but when my father and I went to buy them we were told that they cost fifteen pounds , a considerable sum of money to an eight-year-old , and way beyond my means . |
| 2 | The thing is that it costs 40 lira to go up now , but if he had waited just one hour more , till the 11 a.m. departure , he would have had to pay only two lira . |
| 3 | Mrs Merlin and her husband Christopher say radioactive contamination was behind their decision to sell the house , Mountain Ash , Ravenglass , six miles from Sellafield , which fetched only £35,000 — little more than it cost 11 years earlier . |
| 4 | We ship exports to Europe and it costs X pounds . |
| 5 | And it cost two pound thirty five for a hundred and thirty six gram egg and two forty gram Creme Eggs . |
| 6 | And it cost sixty pence in this country to buy , buy a small bar of chocolate . |
| 7 | Laing admits that the Spanish company was bought out of desperation and it cost United Biscuits dearly . |
| 8 | As well as being practical , the end result will look as if it cost many times as much . |
| 9 | Mind you , if it costs three pounds a head to get in you 'll probably not want to go . |
| 10 | The recordings comprised uninterrupted performances of opera overtures , but they cost ten shillings and sixpence each , and needed an outsize turntable . |
| 11 | erm , but it cost seven pounds for me and mum |
| 12 | But it costs two pounds |
| 13 | All I was told is that you 're getting twelve months guarantee , but you 've got to have a three thousand mile service , and as the gentleman said erm I recorded the deliveries and sent them all back and on the third one , when I took it in I asked if they 'd put a new set of points in for me and erm unfortunately when it came out there was no compression at all and because because I it was suggested that I dug my heels in a bit and got an independent report and erm basically they told me to get lost because it cost fifty pound to do the report . |