Example sentences of "[pers pn] 's [verb] [adj] thousand [noun] " in BNC.

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1 erm sort of , at fir , you know , at first I thought sometimes you know oh , you know what 's the matter with you like but , she admits herself , her I Q , you know how they judge your intelligence has gone right down , she has to have tests every now and again , er she ca n't concentrate on things , or , you know some things she just ca n't do any more , so she 's at , supposed to be getting all this compensation and it 's been going on now , it was two years ago , three years ago that we met them and she 's only just had the first part of her money , she 's had five thousand pounds , that 's all she can get for the time being all the rest is , cos all solicitors and everything and doctors having to come and check things , so she knows , she knows she 'll get money eventually , but er , it 's just when , but is n't it an awful thing ?
2 It 's done one thousand miles .
3 So if it 's done ten thousand miles , we 'd take a tenth of ten thousand , we 'd take a thousand pounds off this .
4 vase , is like er , he had a majority of two thousand , now he 's lost three thousand voters
5 I do n't care what Aunt Sadie said , he 's had sixteen thousand pounds
6 So he 's got three thousand pounds income , and he 's got a hundred and twenty thousand pound nest egg .
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