Thus the red damask curtains which now shut out the fog-laden, drizzling atmosphere of the Marylebone Road, had cost a mere song, and yet they might have been warranted to last another thirty years. A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor;(nb..).
To cause something to be lost; to cause the expenditure or relinquishment of.
(w) (c.1564–1616)
though it cost me ten nights' watchings
To require to be borne or suffered; to cause.
(w) (1608-1674)
to do him wanton rites, which cost them woe
(w) (1977)
LUKE: "That little droid is going to cost me a lot of trouble."