Example sentences of "cost him [art] " in BNC.

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1 It cost him no effort , no extra pain .
2 As he grew older he adopted more radical views which at one point cost him a job .
3 We 'd seen the hare at the 4th and it reappeared again , dashing around right in Lee 's vision as he was putting , which cost him a stroke .
4 On one occasion he suffered an uncontrollable ‘ outburst ’ during his sleep and reckoned it cost him a masterpiece the next morning .
5 And it cost him a share of the halfway lead in the £600,000 GA European Open at Sunningdale .
6 A mistake at the eighth , which cost him a shot , was only a momentary falter in his stately progress to a seven-under-par round at 65 .
7 But Murphy did n't start and Nolan hit early trouble with his Sapphire Cosworth 4x4 suffering suspension damage which cost him a two-minute delay while repairs were carried out between stages .
8 But eventually it cost him a term at Her Majesty 's pleasure .
9 A new constraint came into his tone when he spoke of ‘ them ’ ; it cost him a giant effort now , as well as a convulsion of remembering pain , to look back towards Aber .
10 In 1987 perhaps the Prime Minister 's pre-election visit to Moscow and her eve-of-election trip to the Venice summit of Western leaders were favourable to her re-election , but ‘ Harold Wilson always asserted that a bad set of trade figures a few days before polling cost him an election , while the effect of being centre-stage during the Iran hostages affair may have been devastating to Jimmy Carter 's fortunes ’ .
11 The cold cost him an arm and a leg , badly amputated by Würstchen , who had employed a rough-hewn rock to sever nerve , sinew and bone .
12 Sir Anthony Meyer 's self-destructive challenge to the leadership of Margaret Thatcher cost him the support of his constituency party early in 1990 , but , like Sir Ian Gilmour , he was merely symptomatic of a cast of mind common to many of the baronetcy .
13 He is still smarting after Tuesday 's controversial umpire call , which cost him the race against Kanza , Koch 's other boat .
14 It cost him the tournament .
15 Thanks to proper medical care , the infection was cured , but he needed a convalescence of four weeks under medical guidance , a time which cost him the part of Timmy Cleary that he craved .
16 It cost him the land he had so longed to enter .
17 His only regret yesterday was to fail from seven feet at the last , where his solitary bogey cost him the chance to stand alongside Payne , the 1992 Rookie of the Year , who had a best-of-the-day 66 .
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