Example sentences of "cost him a " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he grew older he adopted more radical views which at one point cost him a job . |
| 2 | We 'd seen the hare at the 4th and it reappeared again , dashing around right in Lee 's vision as he was putting , which cost him a stroke . |
| 3 | On one occasion he suffered an uncontrollable ‘ outburst ’ during his sleep and reckoned it cost him a masterpiece the next morning . |
| 4 | And it cost him a share of the halfway lead in the £600,000 GA European Open at Sunningdale . |
| 5 | A mistake at the eighth , which cost him a shot , was only a momentary falter in his stately progress to a seven-under-par round at 65 . |
| 6 | But Murphy did n't start and Nolan hit early trouble with his Sapphire Cosworth 4x4 suffering suspension damage which cost him a two-minute delay while repairs were carried out between stages . |
| 7 | But eventually it cost him a term at Her Majesty 's pleasure . |
| 8 | A new constraint came into his tone when he spoke of ‘ them ’ ; it cost him a giant effort now , as well as a convulsion of remembering pain , to look back towards Aber . |
| 9 | This was costing him a small fortune . |
| 10 | It ended up costing him a diamond engagement ring . ’ |
| 11 | That last series cost him a Test average over 50 as he dipped to 49.49 , finishing with 3,860 runs from his 51 Tests , with nine centuries . |
| 12 | I cost him a lot in little things , but I know he wants me to ask for something big . |
| 13 | Only cost him a couple of quid . ’ |
| 14 | You do n't really want Fabbiano to find out that one of his little girls cost him a whoppin' big order . ’ |
| 15 | You forget we 've got spies , all the staff on this ward tell Jim exactly what you 've been doing er , that 's , that 's how he knew you got your hair done , can we have five pounds , she 's just had her hair permed , the day before he 's just coming in and , no they sent to the ward can we have five pounds please your mum 's been out for the day and she 's had her lunch out you cost him a fortune and you say you 've never been anywhere |
| 16 | Nick 's is very eh , expensive in Holland it 's cost him a lot of money . |
| 17 | cost him a fortune ! |
| 18 | ‘ For Mr Hubbard its a hobby which costs him a lot of money . |
| 19 | He 's declaring that he 's using a taxi and it costs him a hundred and sixty pound a month , every day back and forwards to work , well everyone knows that 's a lie cos she takes him to work |
| 20 | He notes further to the comments above that while the substitution of will in ( 16 ) " would merely say that it would cost him a fortune if he took them home " ( idea of conditionality ) , the be going to construction expresses the idea of a " current orientation " towards the realization of the infinitive 's event ( here the speaker 's intention to take the books home ) . |
| 21 | BERNIE Slaven 's outburst at being left out in the cold could cost him a place in the starting line-up as Middlesbrough take on Tranmere tonight . |
| 22 | If he suffers the same fate as Clark , it could well cost him a place in the squad for the most vital game in Newcastle 's 100-year history . |
| 23 | Paradise Lost had cost him a mere twopence . |
| 24 | Dad said , and it must have cost him a lot to say so little after he 'd been put down by me , ‘ I 've decided I want to be with Eva . ’ |
| 25 | He was paid £1,600 for his part in producing a football video nasty and it has cost him a record £20,000 fine . |
| 26 | ‘ It would have cost him a fortune . |
| 27 | Now he has a fortnight to worry about whether that incident has cost him a place on either of England 's two winter tours . |
| 28 | It was over , he was unhurt , and it had n't cost him a penny apart from the few pence in his pocket — and as the kidnapping was n't what was eating his heart out he knew he could n't pretend it was . |
| 29 | Must have cost him a few thousand to have it done . ’ |