Example sentences of "i 've [verb] [num] pound " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ I 've lost 20 pounds , ’ he chirps . |
2 | ‘ I 've lost three pounds and I 'm back to my weight of all last season , 13 stone , although I will be even sharper if I come down another couple of pounds . |
3 | I said I think that 's wonderful I said cos do you know how long I 've been out the union now , three months , well I reckon I 've saved thirty pounds , you 've got thirteen quid back |
4 | He said I 've made twenty pounds overnight so that 's , yeah they 've gone up twenty P each cos I 've got a hundred |
5 | while I think of it , you owe Maggie thirty one pound ninety five P , I 've paid thirty pound for you up to now |
6 | he says , he says I 've put ten pounds ' worth of petrol in the car every week and there 's not one of them says there 's a couple of pound towards the petrol or nowt |
7 | I 've got two pounds in change . |
8 | I 'll have to take my ba my building society book of and get a bit of money out , cos I 'm short have to get , have , I 've got some money to get just seventeen and like I 've got two pounds extra right , and , I 'm gon na need some money for the weekend . |
9 | I 've got one pound . |
10 | So I 've got two lots of three pounds I 've got six pounds altogether . |
11 | I 've got eight pounds left , well it 's the same . |
12 | I 've got fifty pounds bid and I shall sell at fifty if there 's no further bids at fifty pounds only at fifty pounds , you all done at fifty ? |
13 | Well I 've got fourteen pounds |
14 | but five pound on putting that away definitely , every week , as it 's all paid petrol money , so now I 've got eighty pound , eighty pound is in me , me , one of me purses and that is , it has on , there again , I mean everything , not a lot , if you 'd to go in you 'd see , it 'd have a , it 'd have erm petrol money , it 's eighty pound , now I 'm saving that so by the time aunty Mary comes I shall have probably a hundred pounds in that |
15 | I 've got twenty pounds at home . |
16 | Alice were having I said just lend me that twenty pound note cos you , and God knows what she thought the bill was I says I 've got seven pound , I says just lend me your twenty pound note , I says you 'll still have enough to pay I says and I 'll give you it back when I get home , you know ? |
17 | Do n't worry I 'll get this , Ray gave me some money , I 've got ten pounds so |