Example sentences of "[verb] [num] [noun sg] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I , I did two hundred and one pound a month or two hundred and fift okay it sounds cheap but I do n't know fourteen pound a month just for li thirty thousand pound life cover over suppose it 's the |
| 2 | So she 's on eighteen pound , they 'll owe say eighty pound a week rent . |
| 3 | Mr. C 's service contract will allow him to work one day a week on non — [ ] Plc/ABC business , provided he does not work in an employment in competition with [ ] Plc or ABC or their subsidiaries . |
| 4 | Though there was a lot to do , Clare , busy redecorating the shop and visiting wholesalers to buy stock , still managed to work one evening a week for the Movement . |
| 5 | Six ‘ pounders ’ were purchased , so that the able-bodied men in the workhouse could be employed in the bruising of bones for use in the glue factory ; each man was to process one hundredweight a day . |
| 6 | They charge seventy pound a day per person and he said oh we 'll charge you next to nothing . |
| 7 | We booked ten pound a week . |
| 8 | The financial solution for all lower-division clubs was to sell one player a year , he said . |
| 9 | They usually function one evening a week in a local church hall or community centre and can undoubtedly play a most valuable role . |
| 10 | Clare still swapped one night a week off with Stephanie and reported subsequent events to Gilda , who now managed the shoe shop : occasionally she visited Clare for an evening meal . |
| 11 | I only smoke I only smoke one cigarette a day . |
| 12 | ‘ I have been doing one acquisition a month and I expect we will still do one acquisition a month , ’ Sadler said . |
| 13 | It was not an easy task for the coalman to make deliveries as he had to lump one hundredweight sacks , right through the house , down three steps , duck to miss the top of the door frame to the scullery , then a mighty heave to deposit coal costing one shilling a hundredweight in the exact spot . |
| 14 | I said , you know , it 's costing fifteen pound a week in a , a least and you you 're you 're paying ten and he said , no he said , he said I think that 's ample , he said . |
| 15 | Yeah , there 's a company that er imports from the south seas , all the fishes and they just charge two pound a pound . |
| 16 | You can also get the ones when , a lot of them , like some companies if they , depending how much business they 've got , some companies actually think that , they might have only got fifty pound a week , a hundred pound a week , as they have n't got young businesses , do you get me ? |
| 17 | We 've got fifty pound a month we can play with and we , to buy |
| 18 | She paying eleven pound a week for that house in |
| 19 | You see we moan about paying three pound a pound for meat but you pay it for fish . |
| 20 | I 'm not paying three pound a packet |
| 21 | but they 've had ten pound a week telephone stamps |
| 22 | And er I can remember one day a driver , Len his name was and he er he said to the inspector , oh he says er I 've been through Corfe Junction he said at sixty miles an hour ! |
| 23 | The scheme involved ten patrons paying one ducat a month ( roughly 600 gulden per year ) . |
| 24 | And erm they 're loyal to the society because it , they know really it 's partly through them supporting the Guilds that we are able erm I do n't know whether I would get the membership there if you 've got , you see we pay a subscription to , see it costs five Pound a year at the moment to be , to be a member of the Womens ' Guild , which we , we send dues as I say to these three sections you see . |
| 25 | For the first ten weeks they will spend one hour a week on induction training with their supervisor . |
| 26 | And when I recall the shattering consequences of what happened one night a month or so later , I think of Hamlet , saying ‘ When sorrows come , they come not single spies , But in battalions . ’ |
| 27 | Our lodging was not free , as it was for our service colleagues ; we paid one guinea a week , and five shillings for transport ( which we could scarcely avoid ) , and a fixed regular sum for meals necessarily taken in the canteen at B.P. Nor did we receive travel warrants for our three-monthly seven-day leaves ; and in those days when civilian travel was frowned upon we had no uniform to prove that our journey was really necessary . |
| 28 | All had agreed that one Christopher E. Chryselius would be employed in the workings , and he was to he paid one guinea a week — no mean wage . |
| 29 | She may consider it rather selfish of him to want to reserve one day a week for his own personal pleasure . |
| 30 | Can you plan one afternoon a week just to enjoy yourself ? |