Example sentences of "[modal v] pay [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Someone thinks I should pay them ten thousand pounds . |
| 2 | 1781 " The Society for Propagating Christian Knowledge having appointed a Schoolmaster for the Parish of Kildaltan , with a Sallary of six pounds sterl. , on the Express condition that the Parish should pay him four pound more — Therefore the Parish of Kildaltan are Stented with the said sum . |
| 3 | She said I should pay her more attention , I was always round at the Club with my drinking mates . |
| 4 | Who are these anonymous people in the organization making decisions on pay ( " The company should pay us more " ) or on other issues ( " The company should take a tougher line against the competition " ) ? |
| 5 | Hauser must pay them big money . ’ |
| 6 | If his employer 's scheme has ‘ contracted out ’ , they must pay you half his guaranteed minimum pension , and the state makes up the difference . |
| 7 | I might pay them another visit soon , after reading the ARBOUR APPEAL article in July 's DIY . |
| 8 | I do n't think they 'll pay me any |
| 9 | I 'll pay you five hundred pounds on the day you marry Bathsheba ! ’ |
| 10 | So remember the committee said oh we 'll pay you extra ? |
| 11 | We 've heard you playing the piano for the local Sunday school erm we 'll pay you sixty pounds a year , which in nineteen fifty whatever it was a lot of money , provided you spend half of that having organ lessons . |
| 12 | If it 's an evening then we 'll pay you sixty pee to do that . |
| 13 | I 'll pay you fifteen quid . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'll pay you two fifty an hour for as many hours as you can put in these holidays . |
| 15 | Now I 'll pay you ten pounds to play this game , and I only want a pound if I win . |
| 16 | He says well I 'm not paying you for it , he says you put it on and it do n't work , he says well we want it back , he says well you take it back and put my parts on that you took off , he says we ca n't , he says well I 'm not paying you hundred and forty pound for a part that do n't work and he says , anyway he says er , are you sure it 's a hundred and forty pound he said , an oil filter cost ten pound at some places but they 're actually only two so if you di divide it by five that 's forty pounds , he says I 'll pay you forty pound , but I 'm not paying you no hundred and forty he said . |
| 17 | An' I 'd pay you three pounds . ’ |
| 18 | The boys asked if we could pay them some ‘ small money ’ to buy pens for schools . |
| 19 | I think I could pay you two shillings a week for the first year and we 'd have to see how things went . |
| 20 | The cost of the charter to Aru had long since been settled : Yong would pay them half the sum now , and his relations would pay the balance once we and the cargo had safely reached Aru . |
| 21 | That 's why when I hear my daughter talking about getting fifteen or twenty K a year I 'm going it would pay me two or three years for God 's sake . |
| 22 | She would pay me 10 per cent commission for everything I sold . |
| 23 | Oldfield himself asked Branson to carry on as his manager , which Branson agreed to do for a new rate — Oldfield would pay him one barrel of beer a year . |
| 24 | The defendant in Allen v. Simmons ( 1978 Q.B.D. ) offered just one set of glasses and asked his audience who would pay him 30 pence for the set . |
| 25 | Realistically , I 've been applying for the sort of job that will pay me enough money to keep me going when I retire . |
| 26 | ‘ They will pay me three koban . ’ |
| 27 | And the new job as Guides chief executive will pay her more than the £45,000 a year she got from British Gas . |
| 28 | We will pay you 2,000 for seeing through to completion the data files from the submitted ASCII files for the first four titles of Reading for English , 50% of this on signature of this letter and 50% on delivery . |
| 29 | If you had to stay away on your two days you 're out with the trainer then we will pay you thirty pound a night subsistence . |
| 30 | If any such part is not provided in the advertised manner , we will pay you appropriate compensation if this has affected the enjoyment of your holiday ( see important note above ) . |