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Example sentences for "hundred pounds"

  • He came to ask for a hundred pounds; he says he has an opportunity of doing better, if he can have that sum.

  • Are you afraid my nerves are growing delicate, or that I shall faint over the loss of a hundred pounds?

  • I have a hundred pounds' weight less upon my chest.

  • I cannot throw the loop through this partition nor move with a pack-thread a cask of wine which may perhaps weigh two hundred pounds.

  • In the year 1737, a bill of exchange on London, for a hundred pounds sterling, sold for seven hundred and fifty pounds Carolina currency.

  • Carolina money was given for a bill of an hundred pounds sterling on England; at which rate it afterwards continued, with little variation, for upwards of forty years.

  • Allow me to write you a cheque for a hundred pounds.

  • But Mr. Burnett was always a very headstrong man; he had quarrelled with this young man, as he said, irreparably, and could not be induced to leave him even a hundred pounds.

  • Five years ago he had written, asking him for the loan of a hundred pounds.

  • But I think we can reckon on a hundred pounds anyhow.

  • About a hundred pounds or so on the first performances .

  • If it had not been for the four hundred pounds he left me to 'buy pretties' with I could not have done anything.

  • Because Farmer Jocelyn gave him five hundred pounds to do it!

  • There's a man lives there whom I did out of a hundred pounds-- just a little variation of the confidence trick.

  • But for me you would have been on your way to South Africa by this time, with a hundred pounds in your pocket.

  • He gave you a hundred pounds, to procure which, he assured you with tears in his eyes, they had almost beggared themselves.

  • She was quite lately, as I dare say you remember, able to give me some very useful information; in fact it is through her that Mr. Stanley did not leave this country for South Africa with a hundred pounds in his pocket.

  • Not contented with having paid twelve hundred pounds on my account, in the space of one fortnight, he would have loaded me with present after present, had I not absolutely refused to accept such expensive marks of his munificence.

  • The match was fixed for one hundred pounds a game, the principals chose their instruments, and laid aside their coats, and one of the knights of the order proffered to lay another hundred on the head of his associate.

  • In the receipts and payments of the Exchequer the milled money did not exceed ten shillings in a hundred pounds.

  • There had been a time when a hundred pounds of the stock could be purchased for sixty.

  • Three eminent London goldsmiths were invited to send a hundred pounds each in current silver to be tried by the balance.

  • He, however, in the hope of perplexing the witnesses for the Crown, expended a hundred pounds in procuring a sumptuous embroidered suit against the day of trial.

  • We were also surprised at his wanting so much money, for he had taken a hundred pounds in gold, which from some fancy, he had stowed in a small silver jewel-box that he had given my mother not long before she died.

  • He had also taken a hundred pounds worth of gold nuggets, which he had intended to sell in Erewhon so as to provide himself with money when he got there.

  • This third letter I have given him with a promise of a hundred pounds in silver for his new Cathedral, to be paid as soon as I get an answer from you.

  • Buying these shares might lose me all that I have got, and could not do more than put a hundred pounds or so in my pocket.

  • I did what was very foolish, I dare say; but the idea never occurred to me till it was too late, that I might be suspected of making a false report on the subject, because I had embarked a hundred pounds in it.

  • In the first place we shall want, I should say, a couple of hundred pounds of dynamite; then we shall have to take some natives with us, a couple of Zulus and two or three Swazis.

  • Nothing has been drawn at present, and with a couple of hundred pounds between us we shall have enough and to spare for however long we may be away.

  • Our people are all going to pay for our outfit, and you know they have agreed to give us a hundred pounds each to last us through the war.

  • Haydon already owed his landlord two hundred pounds, but that seemed to him no reason for moving into cheaper rooms.

  • Peel asked how much Haydon charged for a whole length figure, and was told a hundred pounds, which was the price of an ordinary portrait.

  • I know a chap who made a Jubilee Perfume, and he's netting something like a hundred pounds a day.

  • It was a match for the Sprint Championship and a hundred pounds.

  • Vawdrey might be induced to lend him a hundred pounds or so.

  • The cheques he received varied greatly in amount,--from handsome remittances of a hundred pounds or so, down to minim gifts which made the young man feel uncomfortable when he received them.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    back chair; hundred and fifty dollars; hundred and fifty miles; hundred and fifty thousand; hundred crowns; hundred ducats; hundred fathoms; hundred head; hundred horse; hundred lashes; hundred leagues; hundred men; hundred million; hundred millions; hundred other; hundred sous; hundred tons; hundred ways; hundred yards from the; hundred years; hundred years after the; hundredth part; liquid measure; recent writer; second year; separate them