Example sentences of "a fortune [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Between £60 and £70 million will be won and lost on the Grand National ; a fortune riding on 40 horses . |
| 2 | You do n't have to spend a fortune to give your family tasty , healthy meals . |
| 3 | I remember hearing Hardnut their solicitor — saying that Dersingham had spent a fortune trying to trace someone to leave the place to . ’ |
| 4 | The Archdeacon said Louis had spent a fortune trying to trace an heir . ’ |
| 5 | His annual income when he died was £496 , which may seem a fortune compared with the £20 earned annually by a farm labourer but was modest compared with that of most country gentlemen . |
| 6 | Possibly no one will ever know just how much this particular gang made in ill gotten gains over their evil enterprise , but there was little doubt at the time of the trial that quite a fortune had been amassed and that most of the principals would be rich men when they came out of prison . |
| 7 | It would cost a fortune to see the work of the great masters spread around the art galleries of the World . |
| 8 | First , the show had cost a fortune to put on — the costumes , scenery and music alone had swallowed 3,000 , a huge sum in those days , so the management would certainly not have welcomed laying out yet more money on a whole new scene for a revival whose aim was to recoup losses . |
| 9 | Paul Brown reports on a problem which will cost the privatised water companies a fortune to clean up Blue-green and deadly . |
| 10 | ‘ They spent a fortune developing the place , ’ the Maggot said , ‘ but the rich folks never came , so they sold it to the rich dickheads instead . ’ |
| 11 | He cites Oracle Corp as a victim of this lack of openness — Oracle saw turnover rise last year , but its profits were flat , Graham said , because it had to spend a fortune developing different versions of its database for different Unixes . |
| 12 | But what I did n't know was he was a member of the local mafia and did n't want to see his chance of making a fortune disappear into thin air . |
| 13 | ‘ I would have given a fortune to touch your hand , ’ cried Boldwood wildly , ‘ but you have let a man like that — kiss you ! |
| 14 | Captain Kinloch had inherited the estate of Kinloch in Strathmore from his younger brother , John , who had purchased it from the proceeds of a fortune made as a sugar planter in Jamaica , and had died in 1770 . |
| 15 | But , as Jill Abraham found out , it did n't cost a fortune to create this peaceful setting . |
| 16 | Seth Morgan was born in 1949 , the son of Frederick Morgan of Park Avenue , poet , a founder of The Hudson Review quarterly , heir to a fortune built on soap . |
| 17 | Costs a fortune to feed all those hounds and keeping a horse is n't cheap these days . |
| 18 | Neither is he afraid to spend a fortune to back his judgement . |
| 19 | He did this without spending a fortune , probably because there was not a fortune to spend . |
| 20 | A very weird man — who , if The Pistols had stayed together , could have made a fortune flogging those snaps to a Sunday dreadful . |
| 21 | Surely it would not have cost the council a fortune to mount a modest event to mark this anniversary . |
| 22 | Make a fortune sexing out difficult fish for breeders ? |
| 23 | But clearly Hateley , who made his England debut back in 1984 and earned a fortune playing abroad , does not feel he was properly treated by Taylor . |
| 24 | Lineker , on the other hand , took his decision having already played in two World Cups , deciding it was in his best interests to seek a fortune playing in Japan rather than face the prospect of losing his status and even his England place as his legs began to fail him . |
| 25 | She would like some sort of mobile communication to alert police , well it 's an interesting area , but it would cost a fortune to provide mobile phones |
| 26 | Left : You do n't need to spend a fortune to get fresh ! |
| 27 | A friend said last night : ‘ It will cost a fortune to get this car back to its former glory . |
| 28 | It 's going to cost me a fortune to get them home , |
| 29 | And one wanted re-estimating , the other one wanted a few more prices cos everything like marble tops which are going to cost a fortune to get done . |
| 30 | It cost the poor milkman a fortune to get them to pay him up for the milk people said they did n't get , you know ! |