Example sentences of "[vb past] cost [pers pn] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nubenehem , her peace made with him , complained of this bitterly to Huy ; the attentions of the Medjays had cost her a day 's profit , with the following day well below average on takings , as frightened clients stayed away . |
| 2 | Her time with Giles had cost her the equivalent of a layer of skin . |
| 3 | She got home to Kington Square at last , still grubby , very hungry , quite dispirited and having had to hand over to the police the document which had cost her an unreasonable amount of suffering . |
| 4 | Well , I had done what I could to protect the new catapult and , while I was sorry that what had happened at the Rabbit Grounds had cost me a trusted weapon with many battle honours to its name ( not to mention a significant sum out of the Defence budget ) , I thought that maybe what had happened had been for the best . |
| 5 | With the usual lack of euphemism , the overseers enter the rubric ‘ Dead ’ against her name at the beginning of 1786 ; their accounts for 10 January indicate that it had cost them the grand sum of 3s. 9d. to bury three paupers : ‘ West Wife ; Titford and Robbans ’ . |
| 6 | The opposition parties blamed the scale of their defeat on the repeat of " miscalculations " and " lack of co-ordination " which , they claimed , had cost them the 1990 elections . |
| 7 | Paradise Lost had cost him a mere twopence . |
| 8 | But New York had cost him the Democratic Party 's nomination . |
| 9 | He nodded over at the coat that had cost him an arm and a leg . |
| 10 | He swallowed ; it had cost him an effort to speak in such a way to his mother . |