Example sentences of "[pron] [num] pound " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm got fined a hundred and ninety six pounds and has got to pay me fifty pound compensation . |
| 2 | So , if it 's really going to cost me fifty pound the cubic metre to pour concrete and happen to have forty pound the cubic metre , then it 'll show up in the plan that mm , I 'm not doing to well here , because there was n't a big enough allowance . |
| 3 | going , where 's me eight pound gone ? |
| 4 | cos you see I get she pays me forty pound extra on Saturday |
| 5 | Yeah it 's er I take the car back half term , if , you know , I do n't mind driving it down there , but the thing is how am I gon na get back if I drive it down , it 's gon na cost me forty pound fifty |
| 6 | There 's my thirteen pound and your |
| 7 | Yeah , I three pound ten pence or something in the vegetable shop that was er two pound forty for a cauli cabbage and er carrots . |
| 8 | If I can take home a hundred and twenty quid well with my seventy pound a week pension two hundred quid . |
| 9 | So letter and er and evening compiling it has er gained me my fifteen pound back ! |
| 10 | I stand in the queue for one of the new-fangled ticket machines clutching my one pound coin , but when it 's my turn , the dot matrix display has changed suddenly from CHANGE GIVEN to EXACT MONEY ONLY . |
| 11 | My one pound , seventeen shillings had been put together over a number of years by saving money given me on my birthdays by relatives . |
| 12 | I eventually retrieved my five pound note that had , luckily , not made it to the duck 's mouth but had got caught on the bank . |
| 13 | Well he said give I twenty pound |
| 14 | That 's my hundred pound . |
| 15 | They offered to help , but three of their fifty pound notes were fakes . |
| 16 | Pop fans are being warned the tapes are poor quality and not worth their twelve pound price tag . |
| 17 | Its two pound thirty five for six bits |
| 18 | earn himself two pound . |
| 19 | and she said my sister spends I mean , we 're now talking about nineteen seventy my sister spends twelve and six a week on things from for the house on the hire purchase if she ever truly runs into debt she 'll save part of the cost of the thing , you know and then she knows that she 's always going to have to put twelve and six a week aside but she does that and buys things for the house and you see if you 've got if you 've got that little bit of extra coming in it 's quite well it 's like my lodgers , Brenda if I could n't if I could n't get what I need from my lodgers well Neil pays me Neil 's house rent which thirty pound a week |
| 20 | Well this morning I were listening to er Roy Normal on the , the Welsh radio programmes and he was talking to er various people and he told one young woman who had been in a certain area in world where they were filming , er and she 'd gone to see this filming with Alan Ladd and all these , you know , and anyway she goes she went into the er local chip shop and the er assistant for the film , the labourer came in and ordered , ordered forty packet of chips and er and he was saying oh it were for film you see , so she thought I 'd go down and see what 's happening , so she went down to the pier end and they were all er doing the performance and er , the producer says now all you people there , he says that 's interested , he said would you all go onto the pier , he says and talk he says and read , make it , you know make it interesting , so they all piled onto the pier and er , they filmed what they had to film with the pier in the background and all the people that were on the pier , so this girl was on the film you know , then after it had finished , he thanked everybody , he says now then do n't walk off the pier , he says will you as you 're going off walk past this , the table at the end there and their bloke give them three pound ten a piece |
| 21 | he says the toilet rolls the soft ones have dropped down , cos I get the soft Kleenex ones , everybody 's complaining about and he said they 'd dropped them three pound , is it twenty nine ? , to two eighty nine now |
| 22 | And er the War ended as you know in November eighteen and er when the War came to an end the the Government introduced a form of service whereas if er we youngsters volunteered say if you volunteered for two year they gave you twenty pound and two months leave you see , if you volunteered for three year they gave you forty pound or was it thirty , thirty forty , and er three months leave . |
| 23 | He says well I 'm not paying you for it , he says you put it on and it do n't work , he says well we want it back , he says well you take it back and put my parts on that you took off , he says we ca n't , he says well I 'm not paying you hundred and forty pound for a part that do n't work and he says , anyway he says er , are you sure it 's a hundred and forty pound he said , an oil filter cost ten pound at some places but they 're actually only two so if you di divide it by five that 's forty pounds , he says I 'll pay you forty pound , but I 'm not paying you no hundred and forty he said . |
| 24 | I know I give you three pound one week . |
| 25 | and like six pound something when I , and six pound forty when I had Eran , so I thought if we call it six pounds for a Saturday , when you have Jordan I 'll give you three pound |
| 26 | costing you ten pound a month for newspapers ? |
| 27 | As soon as I said that , he said I 'll give you ten pound . |
| 28 | gives you ten pound leave your money in there . |
| 29 | That gives you five pound a month towards your pension which is nothing is it ? |
| 30 | So I 'll gi , if I give you five pound that 's covers the the pools money for the last two |