Example sentences of "a hundred pound " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ A hundred pounds in his wallet and two hundred in his mouth . |
| 2 | ‘ A hundred pounds is a lot to a man like Cullam . |
| 3 | When he was killed he had had a hundred pounds on him . |
| 4 | He carried notes about with him in his wallet , on one occasion , at any rate about a hundred pounds . |
| 5 | ‘ A hundred pounds , ’ he said . |
| 6 | A hundred pounds ? |
| 7 | A hundred pounds . |
| 8 | And then : ‘ I possess a stone head by Modigliani which I would not part with for a hundred pounds even at this crisis : and I routed out this head from a corner sacred to the rubbish of centuries and was called stupid for my pains in taking it away . |
| 9 | Gloria then added that the pistols for shooting cost over a hundred pounds each and did she know ? |
| 10 | The most exciting part of all , though , came with the discovery that the puppy was the one Farmer Bolsover had lost and that it was a pedigree sheepdog worth at least a hundred pounds . |
| 11 | A mock ‘ Petition of the Pawnbrokers ’ said the petitioners who were in the business of lending small sums on pledges were not legally justified in charging more than five pounds for the loan of a hundred pounds for a year . |
| 12 | As for Selene , she was left a hundred pounds a year so long as she continued under her sister 's direction . |
| 13 | I then proceeded to vandalise nearly a hundred pounds ' worth of golf club . |
| 14 | A hundred pounds and above covered knights and other leading gentry as well as merchants in overseas trade . |
| 15 | The money she had drawn out , emptying her account , less than a hundred pounds but better than nothing , was already in her bag . |
| 16 | Once she saw , sitting on the pavement before a café , drinking pale green drinks , and embracing , leaning over from their plastic chairs towards each other and embracing , the most beautiful couple ; the man with a face angular and ravaged and tragic , the girl dark and thin , with pale lips in a dark tan face : and she was so moved that she said , aloud to Rosie who was walking with her , " Look , Oh God , look at those lovely people " : and Rosie looked and stared and laughed and said , " Good Lord , what odd ideas you have , I would n't look like that if you gave me a hundred pounds . " |
| 17 | She knew that he had a hundred pounds , probably more . |
| 18 | She had got over a hundred pounds . |
| 19 | The wind was taken out of her sails in the first two minutes when Oswin handed her a hundred pounds . |
| 20 | He was almost blue with cold , having had to scramble up an iceberg , loaded with a hundred pounds of scuba gear , and then left for long minutes all by himself . |
| 21 | Start off with a hundred pounds and add thirty five percent on . |
| 22 | So if I wanted to find out erm Let's do that one with the the N H S , and this time I want to know how much it 's going to be It starts off at a hundred pounds . |
| 23 | If it 's done a thousand miles , you 'd get nine thousand five hundred and then cos of the mileage they 'd take off a thousand divided by ten , so they 'd take a hundred pounds off that . |
| 24 | ‘ But Frank , ’ said Bathsheba miserably , ‘ do you realize you 've lost more than a hundred pounds in a month with this awful horse-racing ? |
| 25 | Her cache amounted to just over a hundred pounds . |
| 26 | A bursary of a hundred pounds , yes . |
| 27 | ( This evening — as I knew I would and could — I coaxed and bullied him , and he wrote out a cheque for a hundred pounds , which he 's promised to send off tomorrow . |
| 28 | But basically a gilt has got a fixed rate of , of value at the end and the beginning , so it 's worth a hundred pounds day one , a hundred pounds day you know whatever , h how many days it 's in force , if it 's a five year gilt , it 's worth a hundred , a hundred pounds then . |
| 29 | But basically a gilt has got a fixed rate of , of value at the end and the beginning , so it 's worth a hundred pounds day one , a hundred pounds day you know whatever , h how many days it 's in force , if it 's a five year gilt , it 's worth a hundred , a hundred pounds then . |
| 30 | But basically a gilt has got a fixed rate of , of value at the end and the beginning , so it 's worth a hundred pounds day one , a hundred pounds day you know whatever , h how many days it 's in force , if it 's a five year gilt , it 's worth a hundred , a hundred pounds then . |