Example sentences of "cost [pron] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Springbok ban cost him about 50 caps but at 34 still quick and dangerous . |
| 2 | It only cost them about five dollars to make . |
| 3 | when I had the time , did them all tension and set , you know , but erm , as you say now , they probably cost you about fifty pound a go every time they go away |
| 4 | So it 's costing us approximately twenty pence for each bottle and that 's very high , that 's a very high quality bottle . |
| 5 | Costs you about ten pound do it ? |
| 6 | She now has a wedding dress that cost me the national debt , but which now bears no relation to the original creation because all the expensive seed-pearls are strewn around her bedroom floor , and which the dog thought would be marvellous to eat and is now residing at the local vet 's and which will cost me even more money . |
| 7 | But their leaders thought Germany had too much on its plate to change its definition of nationality and that holding up the asylum reform for that would cost them too many votes . |
| 8 | Probably some , who considered the idea of Making Ends Meet unacceptable and unbecoming , i.e. those enjoying the thrusting Live-Now-Pay-Later lifestyle of the 1990s , would think differently if they knew that the cost of borrowing the £5,000 that would extricate them from the consequences of their cavalier attitude would cost them almost another £5,000 . |
| 9 | I reckon just for this it 'll cost you about eighteen quid . |
| 10 | The nine , well you go down into and you get a bus go wherever it dropped you and then half a mile , mind you that 's gon na cost you about fifty P |
| 11 | You can buy new covers for it but it 'll cost you about eighty quid |
| 12 | The answer is probably to run him on a left hand track where such antics would not cost him so much ground . |
| 13 | Can cost anything over 10 times as much as the yardstick rugs . |
| 14 | I remember , again a few years ago , visiting India and buying one or two beautifully carved tables , which had obviously been carved by an individual spending quite a lot of time doing it , and I was impressed at that stage , rather naively perhaps , that if in fact I 'd bought a plain table , an uncarved one , it would have cost me about ten times as much , for the simple reason that that would require a milling machine which was not normally available , and such was the erm economy that it was cheaper for people to do this . |
| 15 | The frailty of the Leeds defence has already cost them dearly this season . |
| 16 | But has that cost you about seven quid this one ? |
| 17 | ‘ I reckon the goalkeeping position has cost us about 20 goals this year . |