Example sentences of "twenty quid " in BNC.
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| 1 | You knew a river stone had been used to kill Hatton and today you , who get twenty pounds a week and never have a penny to bless yourself with , spent a hundred and twenty quid on luxury equipment . |
| 2 | ‘ He needed his students to have books , though , ’ bellowed Mr Varley , ‘ and now they cost twenty quid a time — twenty quid a time , that 's what they cost . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ He needed his students to have books , though , ’ bellowed Mr Varley , ‘ and now they cost twenty quid a time — twenty quid a time , that 's what they cost . ’ |
| 4 | If I throw in the little un , Sid Watkins will be happy to give me twenty quid Yes , I reckon Sid will be glad to see our Ma in the morning . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I shall want twenty quid off Sid Watkins for her , ’ came the reply . |
| 6 | Yanto had told her to give the small salmon to Sid , providing he coughed up the twenty quid , but Mary decided she could get something out of it herself , especially after that uncomfortable bicycle ride . |
| 7 | One hundred and twenty quid might sound steep for a set of classical guitar machineheads , but perhaps not when they 're as nice as these . |
| 8 | The bruiser would n't have been promised a reward of twenty quid otherwise . |
| 9 | Four amounted to twenty quid , the sum offered to the bruiser . |
| 10 | Four fivers make twenty quid , and he was going to give that amount to his bruiser . |
| 11 | But for just under twenty quid you effectively get hold of the complete BR timetable ( for the whole of Great Britain ) , effective until 16th May 1993 . |
| 12 | Twenty quid for the works , anal sex is an extra tenner . ’ |
| 13 | And er so er er I said to my friend , like me pals I said , Well look we we have n't been in the Army a year , so we 've got to be in two more years before it comes our turn our turn to be demobilized , so we just might as well sign up for a couple year , get two months leave and twenty quid , because we shall do that if we do n't . |
| 14 | ‘ Then how do you explain the wad of twenty quid notes stuff- ’ Miller paused for a moment and softened his tone . |
| 15 | ‘ I gave twenty quid to Oxfam only the other day , ’ said Emma . |
| 16 | The last the family ever saw of Inez was when she set off in her little red Mini Sunday morning with twenty quid in her purse and her passport . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Twenty quid a week ’ , replied the South African . |
| 18 | So all you 'd do is you 'd cast about for a friend , you 'd decide on a price that you would accept and if it was a friend , if you had to sell it and you needed fifteen quid to buy a pair of shoes or whatever , erm and you 'd like twenty , you 'd turn to a mate and go , Have you got twenty quid ? and he he 'd say yes or no . |
| 19 | I had erm an eight ba er eight band wireless which I bought for a hundred and twenty quid when I was working . |
| 20 | Because he knows that somebody else has has been offered it for twenty quid . |
| 21 | Or at least it will go for twenty quid in the end if he does n't buy it . |
| 22 | Another twenty quid if you have a second television set on your licence , I wonder ? |
| 23 | Right , so you reckon that er they should n't charge twenty quid more for another television set , they should take some advertising ? |
| 24 | Why do n't the B B C , both radio and television , take advertising , and then we not only would not need to pay an extra twenty quid , we probably would n't need to pay the eighty odd pounds that we 're paying already for a colour television licence . |
| 25 | That 's right , this er , this proposal by the Commons ' Heritage Committee , that if you actually want another telly in your house , you have to pay twenty quid extra . |
| 26 | Okay Doris , well , far from paying another twenty quid for her extra television set , Doris is very annoyed she 's got to pay eighty three quid for a colour licence , and she 's gon na now go to black and white . |
| 27 | Jessica announced she felt pissed and would have to go onto lemonade or leave the car outside the Amsterdam all night — which raised guffaws as to what she thought she 'd find left of it the morrow — and Mallachy offered to drive it home for her for twenty quid plus his taxi back , although he did n't have a licence . |
| 28 | The opera was great , but I would n't have paid for that , I mean compared to rock erm a rock concert performance and most of the rock concert was twenty quid a ticket |
| 29 | Yeah , well she was going on about bringing lots of money into the college but she might have to pay two hundred and twenty quid for a barn dance band if she 's not careful . |
| 30 | Erm the guy down who 's just done my my club earned himself eighteen hundred pound in one week and he paid about a hundred a twenty quid out for bed and breakfast . |