Example sentences of "have cost [pron] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The area cost adjustment which the er government takes out of the total S S A's of some two hundred million has gone to the south-east , I hope none goes to Westminster , and that has cost us one point three million . |
| 2 | So the the whole operation has cost us fifteen pounds . |
| 3 | Er had they got their way every time we put a cheque in or took one out or moved money from one account to another it would have cost us eighty pence , which meant that had anybody paid their their fees to the er and made the cheque payable to us directly , we would have had to bank that cheque and then reissue another cheque er to the appropriate department and that would have cost us one pound sixty , for which we 'd have got nothing . |
| 4 | Er had they got their way every time we put a cheque in or took one out or moved money from one account to another it would have cost us eighty pence , which meant that had anybody paid their their fees to the er and made the cheque payable to us directly , we would have had to bank that cheque and then reissue another cheque er to the appropriate department and that would have cost us one pound sixty , for which we 'd have got nothing . |
| 5 | The title alone had cost him two weeks ' work . |
| 6 | It had cost him twenty-five shillings , but worth it because of not being able to keep it out of the library long . |
| 7 | Moreover , the fact that the embassy had already been delayed in Dover for a fortnight had cost him 14,000 crowns even before these further disasters . |
| 8 | Shane Warne , whose solitary wicket of the series had cost him 228 runs , was rested , while Tom Moody came in for the out-of-form Mark Waugh . |