Example sentences of "[adv] pay [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the case springs from a fake painting which Mrs Marcos claimed was a Michelangelo and for which she apparently paid Bellini $3.5 million in 1983 . |
| 2 | We were sharing a two-bedroomed council house with my Pop , and although we only paid thirty bob towards the rent , we had two kids and Malc was earning just £4.10.0 a week as a butcher . |
| 3 | I only paid extra insurance . |
| 4 | IT 'S bad enough paying crippling interest rates without having to pay an annual fee on top of that but if you shop around you can avoid the charge . |
| 5 | And unfortunately , unscrupulous landlords that are actually benefiting from this , and in a lot of cases , it 's not , people , people are n't paying , necessarily paying this rent out of their wages , it 's actually the poll tax payer who is paying these rents , er through housing benefit , and I think we should all be aware of the way in which we collectively are being ripped off |
| 6 | He said he does n't catch cos I 'll be I 've , I 'll have those right here for your so you 're only paying twenty pounds bloody football bets are n't they ! |
| 7 | Erm , but more important , er , I wanted to explain something to you which , again to my , to the best of my knowledge nobody else does this , erm , so pay close attention please . |
| 8 | Those who fecklessly pay huge sums for grimy canvases would be wise to study the results of the Dr Carlo Croce collection at Christie 's on 14 January . |
| 9 | I only pay twenty percent when |
| 10 | Oh , I only pay dutiful visits now , ’ Rose went on , ‘ but I was at one time very frequently here . |
| 11 | They do n't know they is n't gon na just churn out , oh yeah well we 'd better pay that mate , eighteen thousand quid ! |
| 12 | Then I think we 'd better pay this Mr Butcher a visit . ’ |
| 13 | The Policyholder may move to a guest house or hotel but we would only pay reasonable accommodation costs , commensurate with the standard of the existing accommodation . |
| 14 | The bottles would therefore go back to the company , which would only pay one deposit on each bottle but the deposit would end up in the hands , not of the purchasers of the soft drinks , but of the defendants . |
| 15 | Now that two hundred pound will only pay one man for a for a week to do the same thing . |
| 16 | He said : ‘ People living in houses eight times more expensive will only pay three times more council tax . ’ |
| 17 | Be that as it may , we should perhaps pay more attention to the context rather than the content of the distinction , and the relationship between the two environments or worlds : the department and the firm , the laboratory and the field , the lecture-room and the ward . |
| 18 | It was introduced by confident elites who were strong enough to pay minimal wages and subject workers to appalling and often highly dangerous conditions ( particularly in the mining industry ) , extremely arduous hours of work and quick — if necessary , brutal — repression of worker demands . |
| 19 | If you 're daft enough to pay good money to have paint shot into your crotch , you 're daft enough to do anything . |
| 20 | Anyone who earns enough to pay national insurance contributions is either ‘ contracted-in ’ to SERPS or ‘ contracted-out ’ because they belong to either an employer 's scheme or a personal pension scheme . |
| 21 | Yes and eventually Shirley and I thought , well I mean , we spent weeks grouting , we grouted and we grouted and still water was coming through and we grouted and at last it seemed to be dry and the man came and did the re-artexing on the insurance and I had wa new wallpaper put up , for which I paid extra because he only allowed eight pounds a roll , the insurance company only pays eight pounds a roll and I had eleven pound wallpaper and a border and having got the whole thing up the s the patches have appeared again ! |
| 22 | The wives of better paid working class men played their part in the creation of a culture of respectability by the pride they took in their homes . |
| 23 | Domestic service was a commonplace of life before the First World War , even among the better paid working-class households . |
| 24 | Mr said he did n't have the heart to tell them how , you might think it 's good value but he did n't when he 'd only paid fifteen pounds fifty a ticket . |
| 25 | Therefore , not only were the more skilled elements of the tasks robotised first to save the wages of the more highly paid skilled labour , but by using robots management could be more certain that a critical weld on a critical component was being done to specification . |
| 26 | The culture of the North East , identified by Ardagh as being dominated by working class values , was formed in an era of highly paid male employment in mining , heavy engineering and marine transport . |
| 27 | Highly paid male employment re-emerged during the war and remained in the post-war boom , but women never retreated to the domestic sphere after 1945 . |
| 28 | If you want a highly paid industrial job with a lot of responsibility you 've got to do a science degree . |
| 29 | Gerolymates says the ex-Yugoslav Macedonians have initiated a huge lobbying effort in Canada bankrolled by wealthy expatriates and represented by highly paid public-relations firms . |
| 30 | The modern ‘ dictator , ’ a Hitler or Mussolini , must be thought of … as a highly paid leading actor , whose business is to divert his people ( individually , from the spectacle of their own littleness as well as from more useful business ) … |