(That it will put a great sum of money in his pocket likely eases the sting).
This has cost taxpayers a great sum of money, hurt innocent people and undermined public faith in Britain's institutions.
The reader infers that Captain Truegood has been offered a great sum for the match, but we have no idea why until the book's end.
Mr. Mandl was upset by the film and spent a great sum of money tracking down and purchasing prints of "Ecstasy" so that nobody would see it.
But later Frederick turned up and had been paid a great sum — three hundred and thirty pesetas — and I got something I was craving, fresh lettuce.
(Like just about every other reporter in Australia, Pryor is convinced the ranch's owner, Ross Blennerhassett, has been paid a great sum of money to keep quiet).
But Ms. Palmer's ability to raise such a great sum from a relatively small pool of dedicated fans has drawn the attention of the music industry.
I recall the Duchess of Devonshire explaining, with much regret, that on the death of the previous Duke, the state had taken a whopping great sum, which had cut harshly into the fabulous Chatsworth estate.
But it is far, far harder to admit that you have been completely unimportant; that in the great sum of things all a man's endless grapplings are no more significant than the scuttlings of a cockroach.
Indeed, the whole thrill of Chloé seems to rest in the faintly masochistic idea of paying a great sum of money for clothes the baby sitter was wearing around 1975.
"Some men nowadays are making 10,000 a year by their novels, and it seems hardly fair that they should pay 10 or 5 per cent of this great sum to a middle man".
