Example sentences of "cost [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From day one my D35 blew it away , and I felt no pangs as it went , traded in against the Martin which cost me £225 in Top Gear in Denmark Street . |
| 2 | It cost me money though , I originally got her from a tutoring agency . |
| 3 | It cost me £58 and again is in excellent condition , and would have been double that price new . |
| 4 | Beating Faldo cost me £90,000 |
| 5 | It cost me £300 for insurance and shipping my MX-5 to Amsterdam on a roll-on ferry out of Brunswick , Georgia . |
| 6 | According to one of the skippers , each hunting trip cost on average over US$130 more than the crew received for the catch — the fishermen were simply carrying on a proud and noble tradition , even though it cost them money . |
| 7 | They set out to develop an empire and wage European wars at the same time , though their empire was unlike any of the others : it cost them money . |
| 8 | Instead of a windfall-profits tax , which cost them £375m in 1981 , the banks merely have to suffer the pin-prick of a delay in claiming tax-relief on those same provisions which hit their profits . |
| 9 | However , after completing the purchase , they were horrified to find that the cottage was infested with dry rot — this cost them £5,000 to deal with . |
| 10 | Leeds tempted Bentley to turn professional with a £100,000 contract in November , 1988 , while Divorty cost them £90,000 from Hull three years ago . |
| 11 | It cost my host , Andrei Nikitenko , one US dollar to park his Lada Riva with central locking and alarm a sum equivalent to 900 roubles or more than a day 's pay for the average Russian . |
| 12 | The Professional 's wife , acting as Steward , was dismissed for bad language and automatically it cost her husband his job . |
| 13 | When IBM stock hit bottom with a such resounding thud last month it cost its shareholders more than $6 billion , 17.5% of total capitalisation . |
| 14 | If you bet on horses or drink then it cost you money . |
| 15 | Crisp says his four-bedroom Potton house , which cost him £120,000 to build , is currently valued at £180,000 . |
| 16 | Including the gearbox , it cost him £1,000 . |
| 17 | By 1802 John Wayland — a member of a famous Frome family , some of whom were to be very eminent in Baptist circles in America — was the new owner , and rates on it cost him 4d. ; lucky old Mrs. Muir , then , who had taken over by 1804 , and was only charged half the price … |
| 18 | It is probable that the species commonly called summer or spring wheat will continue to be the favourite sort of this grain ; and although the cultivation of it may not perhaps be advisable in general over the Hebrides , yet , in consequence of various circumstances favourable to it in Islay , and especially the building of a flour mill by the enlightened and patriotic proprietor , ( which cost him £1200 ) , this valuable crop may be extended over a large portion of the best farms in the island . |
| 19 | But the phone WAS cut off — and although it was reconnected , Mr Bedi claimed his five days without a line cost him £5,000 . |
| 20 | Gachot then spun after running over some debris from the Patrese/Moreno incident and the subsequent tyre stop cost him time . |
| 21 | In that year , also , L'Estrange 's ineptitude cost him control of the official news-books and Muddiman regained it because of the regard he had won from both secretaries of state . |
| 22 | Birds cost his farm thousands of pounds in crop damage . |
| 23 | The Nottingham Forest manager has wasted no time in moving for Olympic keeper Brad Freidle after Mark Crossley cost his side two crucial survival points against Wimbledon on Sunday . |
| 24 | " The material cost your aunt a pound a yard and you should see what they 've put in their place . |
| 25 | It cost us £50,000 to get Eva back , but I 'd spend it again if I had to . ’ |
| 26 | We spent , it cost us double and we , then it was the same thing , same place , they were getting |
| 27 | It cost £2.5 billion and we got back £2 billion , which means that it cost us £500 million , which does not look to me like a profit . |
| 28 | Our first car was an ex-WD Austin 8 and it cost us £25 in 1957 . |