Sentence examples for a banknote on from inspiring English sources
I felt like Gainsbourg [Serge Gainsbourg set light to a banknote on live television] at that moment, except that I was forced to do it.
Because the authors had access to M, P and T for a single year (2013) they were able to work out V. This gives you the answer that a banknote on average changes hands 147 times a year.
Joseph Mallord William Turner knew he'd be on a banknote one day.
A snippet in the Herald Sun in Australia will earn you a phone call from the Prime Minister, while making page one of the New York Times should guarantee your mug appearing on a banknote of significant denomination at some point in the future.
Rather than tipping, in certain cases Italians allow the restaurant to keep the change when paying cash (e.g. leaving a €50 banknote on a €48.50 bill).
After successfully petitioning the Bank of England to include a woman on a banknote in July 2012, Criado-Perez wasubjecteded to a torrent of rape, mutilation and death threats sent from more than 80 different Twitter accounts.
Sir Lord John Mytton: Who better to feature on a banknote than a man who had nothing but contempt for money?
The $100 billion $$1011) Agro Cheque was the largest of the second dollar, sharing the record for the most number of zeroes depicted on a banknote with the Yugoslav 500 billion ($5×1011) dinar note of 1993, up until January 2009.
Every person that you put on a banknote will garner some negative and some positive feedback, says Sweden's Eberstein.
Sir Mervyn King, the Bank's former governor, had let slip to MPs that the author of Pride and Prejudice was "waiting in the wings" as a potential candidate to feature on a banknote, and his successor, Mark Carney, confirmed on Wednesday that she would feature, probably from 2017.
Meanwhile in Canada, more than 54,000 people have signed a petition to put a woman on a banknote there after the sole female to appear on the country's currency, Therese Casgrain, was replaced in 2011 by an icebreaker ship.
