Example sentences of "cost [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had some stuff nicked , a ski jacket which cost me seventy five quid it were half , the rest it should of been a hundred and fifty |
| 2 | I 've also got an Explorer which cost me four hundred bucks — mind you , there 's no case with that . |
| 3 | Just nineteen ten , that cost that much , you got to be joking , it cost me fifteen fourteen when I use to get . |
| 4 | It cost me many night-hours the more because I was reading of one thing and thinking of another . ’ |
| 5 | I went down town yesterday and got some braising steak and it cost me five pounds sixty . |
| 6 | It cost me six hundred bucks — three hundred pounds ! — makes you want to vomit on your parents does n't it ! |
| 7 | The other week it cost me fifty quid to go to the , to get it tuned you know ? |
| 8 | It cost me two years of impoverishment , spending every dime on legal fees . |
| 9 | Erm and it cost me two quid I think for the four . |
| 10 | And a pint of milk 's thirty eight pence I think it cost me two pound thirty eight up here . |
| 11 | And er one or two got caught up occasionally now and then so we did erm have to go underneath because I was earning too much to get a free one it cost me seven pounds ten and I 've got the receipt for it . |
| 12 | It cost me 300 rupees ( $19 ) . ’ |
| 13 | Well I got me shopping and it cost me forty summat one . |
| 14 | And the one cost me twenty quid and that lasted me just over a year . |
| 15 | Like they make a mistake , or I 'd better phone back , and then it cost them all that much money again , more money . |
| 16 | But the thing that fascinated me last night was the statistic about Gillette do you know they said when Gillette started When Gillette started doing the erm Gillette Cup , it cost them five thousand a year . |
| 17 | She said , well we had to bu we , ma made it out that we had to buy erm the whole , the whole box , it cost them fifty pounds ! |
| 18 | But then it cost them sixteen thousand did n't it ? |
| 19 | The Irish team was lying second to Germany following Friday 's dressage but a fall on cross country by Karen Connelly to incur 60 penalties and a refusal by Sasha Harrison which cost them 20 penalties sent them out of the reckoning . |
| 20 | I agree one hundred per cent with Graeme Souness when he insists it was that last 10 minutes in the Lenin Stadium which cost them eventual victory against Spartak Moscow . |
| 21 | Murphy and Taggart led for much of the way but missed out a loop section of the route which cost them 30 marks and they dropped back . |
| 22 | You had to enter them as foals , and then when you entered them it cost you fifty pounds to enter them , and it cost you fifty pounds for every quarter of that lifetime of that foal . |
| 23 | You had to enter them as foals , and then when you entered them it cost you fifty pounds to enter them , and it cost you fifty pounds for every quarter of that lifetime of that foal . |
| 24 | Whereas before , it cost you twenty pound , it 's now gon na perhaps cost you twenty one pound . |
| 25 | From Henry James , The Pupil The poor young man hesitated and procrastinated : it cost him such an effort to broach the subject of terms , to speak of money to a person who spoke only of feelings and , as it were , of the aristocracy ( 1 ) . |
| 26 | His voice grated , but he spoke out clearly , perhaps even a little louder than was natural because it cost him such an effort to get it out at all . |
| 27 | His twenty-rod patch cost him twelve shillings a year in rent and produced not only sufficient potatoes to feed the family from late May round to April the following year , but also a variety of other vegetables . |
| 28 | Robert Forbes pulled out before his partners were indicted , a manoeuvre which cost him all the accumulated wealth of Lorna Lewis 's golden days . |
| 29 | Lucier had taken himself up to the gallery of the chapel — a climb which cost him all the strength that was left him . |
| 30 | Biasion 's puncture cost him two minutes and he ended the day two minutes and six seconds behind Fiorio . |