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Example sentences for "pound notes"

  • That night, into his reply he slipped four five-pound notes.

  • It did him good to put two ten-pound notes in an envelope and inscribe Ned's name on it; he had never yet been able to do anything for these poor lads.

  • They were paying in one-pound notes now, a set found God knows where--in the cellars, it was said.

  • They were short even at the bank, and wanted Bourdillon to take it in one-pound notes, but he stood out and got these in the end.

  • Yes, sir, they are hundred-pound notes," she said.

  • I have made a memorandum of the numbers, and here they are--two fifty-pound notes.

  • The purser rapidly wrote out a new ticket, and took the difference in five-pound notes.

  • He put his hand into his pocket and took out four five-pound notes.

  • Didn't I show you three ten-pound notes, and didn't I send them to Mrs Priestley?

  • Mr Manchuri counted out ten ten-pound notes, and Annie gave him the quaint pearl necklace.

  • I must ask you to explain how it happens that a number of five-pound notes, given to you by your husband some days ago, were found on the body of this murdered man.

  • Whoever goes," continued Coquenil, "had better carry him the five-pound notes found on Martinez and see if he can trace them through the Bank of England.

  • In the dead man's pockets was found a considerable sum of money, a bundle of five-pound notes of the Bank of England, besides a handful of French gold.

  • In a few years they took their two-pound notes; afterward they took their five-pound notes.

  • I am quite certain that he had no ready-money in his possession besides the twenty one-pound notes which he obtained from me upon that evening.

  • Abe Bricknell had gone, taking with him the five five-pound notes.

  • He asked them to send back by messenger, and in return for cheque enclosed, the sum of twenty-five pounds, in five new five-pound notes.

  • The moment the door was shut I took out my purse, and removing four five-pound notes, laid them on the desk beside the chief of the great house.

  • His private drawer was open; I took four five-pound notes.

  • She made a pile of them on the table--four five-pound notes, ten sovereigns.

  • The other girls received their five-pound notes at different times during the day, and Penelope was in possession of twenty pounds that very evening.

  • I can tell you, I had trouble about those five-pound notes, but you got them safely, didn't you?

  • On the bed were twenty forged ten-pound notes complete and ready for use, and twenty-five five-pound notes.

  • Disguised as an old man, he passed six forged fifty-pound notes on a grocer, and then as Price backed up his victim in an action brought against the bank which refused payment of the counterfeits.

  • Then Lily took her aside and produced two clean new five-pound notes.

  • And then a day before the date named, Mrs Crawley had come into Silverbridge, and had paid the butcher twenty pounds in four five-pound notes.

  • He says that he gave Mr Crawley five ten-pound notes, and those five notes we have traced to Mr Crawley's hands.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    above said; contemporary literature; looking out; million expenditures; officio members; popular vote for five; pound butter; pound cake; pound carronades; pound note; pound notes; pound shell; pound shot; pound them; pound trout; pounded sugar; pounder field; pounder howitzers; pounds could; pounds each; remain faithful; she has; substantial form; well grown; what could; would deliver