Example sentences of "we [verb] a [adj] pounds " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now I 'm just thinking , so we got a thousand pounds here , I would like to spend this money . |
| 2 | Now this is in his key messages , and towards the back , there are two pages , where he complains that many promises were made for the facilities management contract , and in particular , erm , he says it is still the case that work to take advantage of the development faci facility has not yet been identified , now I think this is the thing we spent a million pounds on it , and are not using it . |
| 3 | We budgeted a thousand pounds , it looks as if we 're going to have to spend more on urgent work . |
| 4 | Now I 'm minded at the moment to say , look , why should we pay a hundred pounds and pay all the , all the , all the refurbishment of that site , because they wo n't be able to develop it , there 's no , there 's no access to that land . |
| 5 | Let's say we earned a thousand pounds commission on one case , and I had to make one hundred calls to earn , to get that one sale . |
| 6 | Well as you can see from what Frank said , the six main sectors overall did n't fare too badly , sixteen percent drop in aggregate at the trading level and in fact er , our other interest less expenses were actually ended on eleven percent because we had a million pounds more profit from Lakeside when we sold the Tesco 's site . |