Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] pay for " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the end we compromised , Singh apologised and I agreed to pay for repairs to his sidelight . |
| 2 | I got paid for August which was quite clever really cos my date would of been sort of half way through to book my holiday |
| 3 | Er , I got paid , I got paid for the disabled games last year |
| 4 | I expected to pay for twin-lens versatility with loss of picture quality , but this was n't the case at all . |
| 5 | ‘ I promised to pay for — ’ |
| 6 | He would then enquire how much I 'd paid for the latest irreparable objects , and if it had been 20p or less he 'd say , with satisfaction , ‘ Well , at least it had a decent plug ’ , and the decent plug would go into the decent plug box . |
| 7 | John , of Pontypridd , Mid Glamorgan , said yesterday : ‘ It was n't until I came to pay for a car at the auction that I realised what I 'd done . |
| 8 | I started paying for this myself two years ago — and I want to keep it a secret from him — but now I find I ca n't continue the payments . |
| 9 | I offered to pay for my transport , but ‘ No ’ was the answer . |
| 10 | That they have cost me no more than my time makes such decisions much easier than if I had paid for them in gold . |
| 11 | I had paid for but not sipped my drink when a heavy hand fell on my shoulder . |
| 12 | Predictably , I had to pay for Charlie . |
| 13 | I was sad about this because I am a clubbable person by nature , and have never regarded a game of golf as anything but an occasion of pleasurable social exchange ; but an end to Muirfield was the price I had to pay for the championing of Meehan 's cause . |
| 14 | However , despite the fact that I had to pay for the survey , the society will not allow me to have a copy of the report . |
| 15 | And and I had to pay for it of course . |
| 16 | Do you know what the total price of the tickets would have been if I had to pay for this , one hundred and ten pounds |
| 17 | if I had to pay for it |
| 18 | It 's very difficult , I had to pay for the sheep when the Chichester was here . |
| 19 | The feeling of the court was almost a tangible thing : something vile had happened and someone had to pay for it . |
| 20 | I wanted to pay for my crime . |
| 21 | The main complaint was that Microsoft offered large discounts to PC makers who agreed to pay for a copy of MS-DOS or Windows for every machine they sold , whether or not it was actually loaded with one . |
| 22 | Who agreed to pay for Karen 's medical tests ? |
| 23 | ‘ Would you help if you got paid for it ? ’ |
| 24 | well you got paid for your contracts , they let your contracts through the last time |
| 25 | Okay , but you 're buying more benefits , therefore you got to pay for it more |
| 26 | keep that in case you got to pay for it , it er , you wo n't do it now this moment |
| 27 | Well , Mr Chairman , I think er , you know , it 's all right putting forward a budget like this , but there 's only one person who got paid for it , and that 's the general public . |
| 28 | A SUPERMARKET assistant recognised a man who tried to pay for goods with a stolen credit card — because she 'd seen him as a strippergram . |
| 29 | It really went to show that God was good ; when you 'd paid for the things you did and you were really sorry , He gave you something good to make it up to you . |
| 30 | When she came to pay for the bill , she found that it had already been paid . |