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Example sentences for "thousand pounds"

  • I myself had now in the bank more than a thousand pounds, and every thing was thriving around.

  • The knowledge is worth a thousand pounds at the least," I replied.

  • He has put notices in the newspapers of Charlestown, Philadelphia, New York, and even Boston, and offered a thousand pounds reward.

  • It was a bit under a thousand pounds, Richard.

  • You may tell him that if he'll let me have the money in the way I've proposed, you are to have a thousand pounds out of it.

  • He had lost nearly a thousand pounds, but it had been all in paper.

  • Mr Adolphus Longestaffe had paid Sir Felix Carbury a thousand pounds, and Sir Felix Carbury's commission had been accepted by Mr Melmotte for the purchase of railway stock to that amount.

  • Sir Felix had come, being very anxious to buy and sell, and not as yet having had an opportunity of realizing his golden hopes, although he had actually paid a thousand pounds in hard money into Mr Melmotte's hands.

  • So you see, when the letter was lost it was worth a thousand pounds, and when it was found it was not worth a farthing.

  • We compute in England, a park wall at a thousand pounds a mile; now a garden-wall must cost at least as much.

  • A man accustomed to throw for a thousand pounds, if set down to throw for sixpence, would not be at the pains to count his dice.

  • I would not take a thousand pounds and do so," I replied.

  • Thus forced to speak, she replied with constraint, 'You demanded as much as a thousand pounds.

  • I demand--I think it was a thousand pounds.

  • Money out of pocket made good, time fairly allowed for, and Mr Rugg's bill settled, a thousand pounds would be a fortune to me.

  • Her funeral cost my father above a thousand pounds; and Dr.

  • You may have what some people would call a necklace for a thousand pounds, or you may have one that'll cost you twenty thousand.

  • I am prepared to spend something between fifty and eighty thousand pounds.

  • The Buckingham believed him: the Marlborough had more sense, and knew herself, and gave him a thousand pounds to suppress it;-and yet he left the copy behind him!

  • My brother is on the point of finishing all his affairs with his countess; she is to have fifteen hundred per year; and her mother gives her two thousand pounds.

  • The Duke of Dorset has desired the King not to subscribe; but Lord Middlesex is so obstinate, that this will probably only make him lose a thousand pounds more.

  • Egad," said Mr. Coverley, "I would not have been served so for a thousand pounds.

  • He bid me consider what a thousand pounds was; I said I would have him to know I valued a thousand pounds as little as he valued a million.

  • I would have fain given the man half a crown; but was afraid to offer it him, lest he should be offended; for, beside his money, he said he had a thousand pounds a year.

  • Of course Harry paid over the eight thousand pounds.

  • If a thousand pounds would do Keggo any good, and if she had a thousand pounds, freely and gladly she would give the last penny of it.

  • A man who is ready to wager a thousand pounds that no other man present has that amount in his pocket, can hardly feel unequal to his company.

  • A thousand pounds seemed a great deal to me, and very little for one who was rich.

  • If it were two, or twenty, thousand pounds, it would be the same to me.

  • You will then have made two thousand pounds by the transaction.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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