Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [verb] a [num] pound " in BNC.

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1 One day I had left a five pound note on the mantelpiece .
2 Somewhere in my house I 've lost a twenty pound note .
3 Now , I 've won a thousand pounds in the United Kingdom .
4 Has anyone rung up and told me I 've won a million pounds ?
5 Lot number seventy seven Lot seventy seven Lot number seventy seven is showing for you and I 've got a hundred pounds offered for it and ten , twenty , at one hundred and twenty pounds at a hundred and twenty pounds , one twenty , you all done ?
6 but still I 've got a hundred pound in there , you have seventy one , seventy two pound worth , plenty stuff
7 I 've got a ten pound note I suppose .
8 And you 've paid a thousand pound for it , so he 's making all this profit all the time !
9 Oh shit you 've won a thousand pounds
10 That seems to me , to need a lot of thinking about , because if you 've got difficult children , ra the last thing we want to do is think you 've got a thousand pound fine or so .
11 I went to change me poll tax and er I says to her , I says , I should be court to Monday oh she says you 've got a fifteen pound court thing , I says aye , she says oh well that 's fifteen pound , I says it 's not cos I 'm not paying it I says I 'm not paying the fifteen pound to the court , I says , I says how come last year I did n't pay right round to February last year I said and yet I , your last payment 's next month , you know , she said oh well they 're stricter this year she says , she , if you 'd pay the half year you 'd of been alright
12 When you know you have located a one pound coin before you dig it up , you can call yourself an expert detectorist .
13 Cos she 's got a hundred pound
14 He said she 's got a ten pounds bonus because I paid for the .
15 We 've , I mean we 've lost a hundred pound on the car .
16 Collectively known as Bedazzled , they 've signed a million pound contract with one of the biggest record companies in the world .
17 So , you 've got a client who for whatever reason , is , is unable to er , afford the premiums , and providing they 've got a thousand pounds in the fund , they can elect to the , the plan made paid up , whereby the life cover is sustained by the fund and all the other charges , and it 's sustained until the fund runs dry .
18 Cos one day we found him and he was choking to death practically and erm er Tam , Linda 's husband turned him upside down and smacked his back , he 'd eaten a one pound coin .
19 Saying er , I was telling it the other day , she said you could spend all that money on and she said , we went to see this horse , it was years ago before they got their own , she said the horse had just had its foal and it was like he 'd spent a thousand pound on the , the actual stallion yeah and it come out
20 When he was killed he had had a hundred pounds on him .
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