Example sentences of "[pron] pay for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He gave the glass , I paid for the labour . ’ |
| 2 | Anyway , I paid for the blessed thing . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I paid for the rent for the villa , which I arranged myself with a Belgian count who owned it , and also paid the air fares for all the Mellors , ’ she said . |
| 4 | I paid for the petrol and the mints , and the young chap said : ‘ It 's Geoffrey Boycott sat in that car , is n't it ? ’ |
| 5 | I paid for the taxi because he had no change . |
| 6 | This was confirmed when Epson quoted £200 for a 2Mb memory module — that 's nearly half the price I paid for the PC ! |
| 7 | And I learned to drive — mum and dad paid for my driving lessons and I paid for the driving test . |
| 8 | So I paid for the electric motor of the engine to be serviced , but it never worked very well . |
| 9 | Calmly I paid for the pod 's berth and walked away , neither too fast nor too slow . |
| 10 | Ha ha I paid for the tickets I 'm gon na drink it . |
| 11 | Guess how much I paid for the Christmas pud ? |
| 12 | He said she 's got a ten pounds bonus because I paid for the . |
| 13 | But I paid for the first of March so I 've lost li literally fourteen days have n't |
| 14 | One of his daughters takes me to borrow the telephone of a surly neighbour , who insists I pay for the call . |
| 15 | I pay for the likes of you . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Well , I pay for the time , ’ the landlord defended himself , though not as intimidatingly as I could have hoped . |
| 17 | I pay for the eh I pay ten pea or twenty pea or whatever for the ride . |
| 18 | Well I pay for the copper ! |
| 19 | Because the way that I erm , I 've been working on this procedure and in fact I sense this too , and I have most of what was currently there for research project , project related sub-contracting , in other words sub-contracting with B P or if necessary , which I felt that more or less covered and what it was n't covering was when a Marie type situation on software , where I was going to put a different section , which is where the report , when it 's on research project related company facts , then I pay for the software . |
| 20 | In a report to be published shortly , the Office of Scientific Integrity of the National Institutes of Health ( which paid for the research reported in the paper ) concludes that key data for the paper were faked . |
| 21 | The Nuffield Foundation ( which paid for the feasibility study ) has given £30 000 and the trustees are advertising for a project director this week . |
| 22 | This neatly sums up the sources of wealth , external and internal , which paid for the great Acropolis building programme . |
| 23 | The project was to be funded for one year with money from the Telethon Trust , which paid for the author 's post , that of development worker , as well as allowing a substantial budget ; the overall aim was to establish a leisure service for disabled people within the Northern Health Region . |
| 24 | The rest of the budget is allocated in two parts : that which pays for the hospital and community services — three-quarters of the total — and the remainder , which goes to the family practitioner services — the GP , the dentists , the opticians and the cost of drugs dispensed by GPs . |
| 25 | We also ask you to contribute to a kitty which pays for the children 's food and drinks . |
| 26 | Some birds and animals come via the RSPCA and he receives funding for these ; but he himself pays for the care of injured wildlife brought in by the public . |
| 27 | She paid for the Regiment 's presents each Christmas and presented them to the legionnaires . |
| 28 | She paid for the meal . |
| 29 | You 're joking ? ’ she said with her distinctive throatiness , as she paid for the coffees . |
| 30 | erm and she paid for the holiday , but she has an allergy . |