Example sentences of "twenty shilling " in BNC.
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| 1 | As far back as the Domesday Survey , records show that there were two mills at Tewkesbury of ‘ twenty shillings ’ . |
| 2 | Prices were highest in 1922 ; twelve-inch records from The Gramophone Company were between four and twenty shillings each ( 31 ) . |
| 3 | The wardens originally received twenty shillings for their work plus expenses ; now they only receive a small allowance towards their expenses , which is paid after they have served their two year term . |
| 4 | A few weeks later Masters of Notts went into voluntary liquidation , paying twenty shillings in the pound as Father had said they would . |
| 5 | What shall we say , twenty shillings ? |
| 6 | Yes , for twenty shillings I 'll take her in and give her house-room . |
| 7 | These charities were originally administered by the Church or trustees appointed by the old vestry meetings , but with the Local Government Act of 1894 , they passed into the hands of the new parish councils , or such as still existed , for in 1893 , we find the local vicar complaining that most of the charities were dead and buried , and that Thomas Towers promised to give twenty shillings each Christmas Day , very kind of him no doubt , but unfortunately he left no provision for anybody to give it after he was dead , so that in his case he and benefaction are both dead and buried . |
| 8 | Again at Easter he is arguing over his fee for attending the Archbishop at Canterbury and threatens that unless he is payed the sum of twenty shillings a day for three days he would never again obey the Archbishop 's mandate . |
| 9 | The previous year 1255 , the property belonging to the Bishopric of Rochester , had been valued as follows : The estates at Halling with its member of Holborough and Cuxton , contained 717 acres of arable land , that not being marled was valued at fourpence an acre , also 38 acres of meadow land worth sixpence an acre , and 20 acres of pasture at eightpence an acre , the Mill at Holborough being valued at twenty shillings and the Mill at Cuxton worth thirteen and fourpence , no value is put on the vineyard at Halling but it is mentioned . |
| 10 | William Symons must have been a wild one for in July of the same year he and Elizabeth Cole also of Halling , were both bound over for twenty shillings to appear at the next gaol delivery . |
| 11 | If I could maybe take twenty shillings . |
| 12 | ‘ And can I have twenty shillings , please ? ’ he said , shuffling his feet . |
| 13 | I 've still got my twenty shillings . |
| 14 | She at first refuses to help him , suspecting a trap to catch her out in witchery , but as the clerk , Wilekin , persists she finally agrees to solve the problem , accepting twenty shillings in payment . |
| 15 | although in fact he ends up paying just twenty shillings ( one pound ) when Dame Sirith agrees to help ( 270 ) . |
| 16 | After Dame Sirith has agreed to help , Wilekin pays her : ( " Take , here , twenty shillings : this I give you in reward to buy sheep and swine for yourself . " ) |