Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adj] pound " in BNC.
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1 | He wanted to be able to give me fifty pounds , and he was suffering from a deep sense of inadequacy because he could n't have given me five . |
2 | Sh she pays me fifty pounds , she rang me up she were away to a funeral |
3 | I have to pay tax on that lot mind , but I mean it 's something you know like it 's still costing me fifty pounds |
4 | Erm got fined a hundred and ninety six pounds and has got to pay me fifty pound compensation . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | Erm and what were you going to buy them that pound fifty ? |
7 | Lot forty two two Columbia portables there they are now , thank you , Lot forty two , fifty for them fifty pounds anywhere for the portables ? |
8 | Lot fifty five four phonograph horns and Lot fifty five , fifty for them fifty pounds anywhere ? |
9 | She said , well we had to bu we , ma made it out that we had to buy erm the whole , the whole box , it cost them fifty pounds ! |
10 | going , where 's me eight pound gone ? |
11 | Anyway that 's , that 's on , that 's only a three hour course that 's running for thirteen weeks , which will cost me forty pounds , but I 'll take |
12 | cos you see I get she pays me forty pound extra on Saturday |
13 | 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 |
14 | but Julia said to me before she came round with Hayden she said er , cos her mum and dad are still there , not her mum and dad , her mum and step dad are still there , they 're only giving them forty pounds for nine weeks , forty pounds towards the mortgage like you know , been there since after Christmas and erm , anyway she said ooh she said , Steve said er , that 's her husband , said to me ooh is n't Emily well mannered she said , she does n't walk in the house , she waits in the doorstep you know |
15 | 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 . |
16 | Well he said give I twenty pound |
17 | 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 |
18 | 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 |
19 | The bonus for me was that the money was so much better than Whiteleys , Instead of getting 36 bob for Thursday evening and all day Saturday , Malcolm paid me three pounds 10 shillings — almost twice as much — for the Saturday only . |
20 | Er say , I mean they normally give me three pounds do n't they ? |
21 | you see Sister makes all these arrangements , it 's she who does so many of the arrangements , she has made the arrangements about there being no coffee , several people have come to me and said I do n't know why you 've got to stop coffee because we can always go over and have lunch anyway , you know , er after the coffee , but Jean came to me she said look I 'm giving you this , and she gave me three pounds , she said I would much rather that was put into this , there your charity thing than take it across the hall , she said my Margaret wo n't go over there any more , because they , they say , you know , put in for your lunch what it would cost |
22 | If you leave Weatherbury today , I 'll give you fifty pounds . |
23 | You had to enter them as foals , and then when you entered them it cost you fifty pounds to enter them , and it cost you fifty pounds for every quarter of that lifetime of that foal . |
24 | You had to enter them as foals , and then when you entered them it cost you fifty pounds to enter them , and it cost you fifty pounds for every quarter of that lifetime of that foal . |
25 | that would cost you fifty pounds for that . |
26 | ‘ I know , I still owe you fifty pounds . ’ |
27 | If I give you fifty pounds , I 've got sixty five pounds twelve pence , if I give you fifty pounds , then that keeps fifteen pounds and twelve pence to buy tea bags and . |
28 | If I give you fifty pounds , I 've got sixty five pounds twelve pence , if I give you fifty pounds , then that keeps fifteen pounds and twelve pence to buy tea bags and . |
29 | It shows how well we are conducting the service , in what is an old bedding factory , after all , and if you 've been to Winchester lately , you will have seen a six million pound record office , with with modern architecture in a prominent position in Winchester , er , which I 'm sure they 're conducting a service , but I 'll bet you that pound for pound we 're giving a far better service in Wiltshire , with our dedicated staff , who 've been there a long time . |
30 | He only wanted to give you eight pounds a performance , but I pushed him up . ’ |