Sentence examples for write a cheque for from inspiring English sources

There will be no equity injection into the club, despite Usmanov's offer to write a cheque for £100m if the funds are invested in the team.

His wealth is routinely reported to be anywhere between £25m and £45m; could he not write a cheque for £130,000?

George Osborne's plan carries the strong whiff of a bung to those people able to write a cheque for a few thousand quid at short notice.

Sources close to the funding issue said they did not expect the DfT or Treasury to "write a cheque for over £1bn".

My accountant – a studious man with a commendable lack of creativity – tells me exactly how much I owe Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC), and I write a cheque for that amount.

Their main relationship with the state, at least as they see it, is to write a cheque for their taxes and their only interest in it is that the cheque be as small as possible.

They would accept me writing a cheque for £50 with a cheque guarantee card (remember them?).

The ECGD ended up writing a cheque for £8.2m when Marconi failed to get its money.

"If you're writing a cheque for someone, the transaction is quite cold," observes Yarker.

So for many Americans abroad writing a cheque for $450, the standard expatriation fee, may increasingly seem like a bargain.

Cowell greeted the Stoens on the Oprah stage yesterday and told them he had written a cheque for 162,000 dollars (£80,000) to pay off their mortgage.