Example sentences of "cost him [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If another general election had been imminent , Mr Norman Lamont 's presentational difficulties might have cost him his job . |
| 2 | Hill feels brushes with Manchester United 's Alex Ferguson , Liverpool 's Graeme Souness and Howard Wilkinson of Leeds may have cost him his place in the top flight . |
| 3 | Indeed , when Pilate produced a coin which had an augur 's staff on its obverse , it could well have cost him his job ; for an augur 's staff smelt of pagan religion , and that could not be tolerated in Judea . |
| 4 | His apostasy had cost him his empire . |
| 5 | His binge would not have cost him his work . |
| 6 | The idea of going into the deserts of the north to found a new religious colony had no attraction for him , and he was beginning to think that , for all the patina of civilisation which he had reassumed , Surere 's years of imprisonment had cost him his reason . |
| 7 | Had that cost him his life ? |
| 8 | His mental blank had almost cost him his life . |
| 9 | It could so nearly have cost him his life . |
| 10 | Twenty-six days after his 34th birthday , McLeish has been chosen in preference to Celtic 's Paul McStay ( Scotland 's designated vice-captain ) who has deputised for Richard Gough while injury and suspension have cost him his place in the last two internationals . |
| 11 | Trevor Steven 's quest for European glory with Rangers , however , has cost him his England place . |
| 12 | Trevor Steven : Rangers ' European commitments have cost him his place in the Graham Taylor 's England squad |
| 13 | Trevor Steven 's quest for European glory with Rangers has cost him his England place . |
| 14 | They had ceased to bring him food at the end of the first day , taken away his carefully hoarded drop of water at the end of the second , and the third refusal had cost him his coarse blankets and the thin straw palliasse on his plank bed . |