Example sentences of "[art] [noun] pay off " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Charlie has taken a street sweeper 's job to earn the money to pay off the cruel landlord who would otherwise put a blind girl and her mother out onto the streets . |
| 2 | When the zero-coupon bond matures , in , say , 15 years , the French debt-issuer uses the money to pay off the principal . |
| 3 | Legally , if only one of the partners has the money to pay off the company 's debts , then she must do so . |
| 4 | Lloyds Bank released the bills back to him so that he could sell them and thereby obtain the money to pay off the loan from the Bank . |
| 5 | The position has been held to apply to an insurance agent , who was under no duty to hand those notes and coins to the company ( Robertson [ 1977 ] Crim LR 173 ( CA ) ) , and to a person in receipt of housing benefit , who was under no legal obligation to use the money to pay off rent arrears ( DPP v Huskinson [ 1988 ] Crim LR 620 ) , even though that was the purpose for which the accused received the benefit . |
| 6 | The four tenants had actually been paying their rent , but the landlord had not been using the money to pay off his mortgage . |
| 7 | A dying man and his family are again facing eviction from their home after failing to raise the money to pay off mortgage arrears . |
| 8 | He had taken the money to pay off debts and had continued to do so even when bereaved relatives were desperate for cash to pay undertakers ' bills . |
| 9 | He said Gavin had used the money to pay off debts . |
| 10 | He had taken the money to pay off debts and had continued to do so even when bereaved relatives were desperate for cash to pay undertakers ' bills . |
| 11 | A country that has a balance of payments surplus may receive payment from the debtor 's foreign exchange reserves , receive the balance in gold , leave the money in the debtor country and use it to purchase goods and services in the future , or lend the debtor country the money to pay off the debt and receive interest on the loan in the meantime . |
| 12 | In the same way , a country that has a deficit on its balance of payments will either have to run down its foreign exchange reserves , pay over gold , borrow the money to pay off the debt from other countries or hold money , in terms of credit , that the creditor country can use to purchase goods and services in the future . |
| 13 | The trouble is my boyfriend , with whom I have been living for six months , thinks I should use the money to pay off our overdraft . |
| 14 | The contacts paid off . |
| 15 | The decision paid off . |
| 16 | The plot pays off |
| 17 | When your mortgage comes to an end , you will use the proceeds to pay off your loan . |
| 18 | They need the cash to pay off debt and also ground improvements like seating the kop next summer . |
| 19 | He was preferred there to John Ebbrell who played in an unfamiliar left-sided role and the ploy paid off . |
| 20 | Nonetheless , when they 're there , living in , the nice little brown envelope with the weekly giro cheque arrives in their name ; and when they go the authorities depend on the dependents to pay off the debts . |
| 21 | Normally under a hire purchase agreement as soon as the hirer pays off all moneys due under the agreement , the goods become the hirer 's property . |
| 22 | The trustees pay off that overdraft . |
| 23 | Before his birthday the trustees paid off all of his considerable personal debts , so that he could start afresh , but the Earl was not impressed by their suggestions that thrift was required and as soon as he took control he began to sell off parcels of the ancient family lands , all to finance his expensive tastes . |
| 24 | By September 1991 , a combination of the impact of the recession , the high fixed costs of the Newport office and the loans to pay off the four partners had landed the firm with a £1.65m debt , £1m of which they saw as long-term borrowing and £650,000 as their working capital requirement . |
| 25 | Wednesday were shattered at giving up a three-goal lead at home but their plan to expose right-back Paul Parker 's size by getting Hirst to attack him in the air paid off with two goals — plus one for the striker himself . |
| 26 | The pressure paid off in the 58th minute when central defender Whelan , scorer of a late winner at Southend on Saturday , rose to direct a far-post header over Stowell , in the Wolves goal , from one of Thompson 's many excellent dead-ball crosses . |
| 27 | To make the training pay off , firms did their best to keep employees ; at the same time , the prospect of training gave employees an incentive to stay with their firms . |
| 28 | As it happened , the gamble paid off handsomely . |
| 29 | The gamble paid off handsomely with only one picture , a difficult composition by Julian Schnabel ( lot 19 ) failing to find a buyer . |
| 30 | The gamble paid off . |