Example sentences of "[vb past] cost him " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lucie laid his hand against Gabriel 's cheek ; it seemed to cost him effort to lift his arm , because a sweat broke out on his top lip . |
| 2 | Ultimately , of course , Æthelred 's inactivity did cost him his throne , but the point at which this could reasonably have been foreseen may have been little clearer to contemporaries than it is today . |
| 3 | The offering had to cost him something — one of his herd of cattle or flock of sheep and goats ( a bird was permitted for the poor ) , and it had to be of the best — a male without blemish . |
| 4 | It had cost him twenty-five shillings , but worth it because of not being able to keep it out of the library long . |
| 5 | He had bought a new white shirt and was wearing a regimental tie which had cost him tuppence in a jumble sale . |
| 6 | The title alone had cost him two weeks ' work . |
| 7 | Nobody but himself knew what it had cost him to start riding with Nutty as a teacher , and to get to his present standard on the crazy little mare when he had been terrified out of his wits at the things she did . |
| 8 | Paradise Lost had cost him a mere twopence . |
| 9 | This one had cost him sixpence , a lot out of his ten shillings a week wages , but it was worth it . |
| 10 | He would n't say how much money it had cost him to get married , but did say the money he would have made from Jamie 's maiden win would have helped in a big way . |
| 11 | He nodded over at the coat that had cost him an arm and a leg . |
| 12 | He swallowed ; it had cost him an effort to speak in such a way to his mother . |
| 13 | By that time Barbara knew Leo very well , and she guessed how much it had cost him to tell her the whole unsavoury story . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | But the unemployed former garage owner from Armagh admitted the two trips across the Irish Sea had cost him £600 . |
| 16 | Two years before his death , he had told Herbert Read that the best of his poetry had cost him dearly in experience . |
| 17 | But then he murmured half under his breath something to the effect that ‘ the boy had cost him much suffering ’ . |
| 18 | Jacob , trim in his dinner-jacket , his dark eyes sparkling darker against the greying of his thick hair ; Leo , blond , relaxed , despite the effort it had cost him to put on a suit for the occasion . |
| 19 | It had cost him all his money , but Conradin did not mind . |
| 20 | The boy stood up and his expression of mixed defiance and desperation showed that it had cost him something to enter this house . |
| 21 | His apostasy had cost him his empire . |
| 22 | The idea of going into the deserts of the north to found a new religious colony had no attraction for him , and he was beginning to think that , for all the patina of civilisation which he had reassumed , Surere 's years of imprisonment had cost him his reason . |
| 23 | He sighed , took out another ten pound note and slid the money across the counter , calculating as he did so that he could have eaten adequately and drunk excessively for a fortnight in Lindos for what a night at the Skein of Geese had cost him . |
| 24 | But New York had cost him the Democratic Party 's nomination . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | He was without a car for two days and claimed it had cost him at least £300 in business . |
| 27 | They had ceased to bring him food at the end of the first day , taken away his carefully hoarded drop of water at the end of the second , and the third refusal had cost him his coarse blankets and the thin straw palliasse on his plank bed . |