noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
quid pro quo
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There’s a quid pro quo for everything in politics – you’ll soon learn that.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
cost
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Second hand for about 100. 2400 baud modems will cost under 100 quid .
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Even if it costs us a few hundred quid , it's been worth it.
get
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She's got seven million quid , and just look at her face.
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Even labourers out there get fifty quid a week.
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What sort of a racehorse d'you think you get for a hundred quid ?
pay
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We paid him four hundred quid , a month's rent.
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It's a shame we had to pay 14 quid to watch them.
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If he said the punter had paid him fifty quid , Joe knew that was what had been paid.
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Don't bother trying to blag yourself a ticket - everyone pays 15 quid .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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I have it at home and can well understand why Carmody passed fifty quid under the table to keep Graham quiet.
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I have, as it happens, a 1,000 rouble note, worth around a quid at yesterday's prices.
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Maybe eighty quid a week coming in.
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The bruiser wouldn't have been promised a reward of twenty quid otherwise.