Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] pay [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the same Meredith began to pay some attention to the girl . |
| 2 | So far this year , the Princess Royal and Prince Edward have paid open visits to the province . |
| 3 | In fact Flavia Sherman had paid less attention than usual to her two sons since her arrival at the camp . |
| 4 | The prosecution asked for costs to be awarded against the defendants but the request was refused — NatWest has paid all its former employees ' costs . |
| 5 | It happened less than 72 hours after Sampras had paid warm tribute in Frankfurt to the veteran coach he said had helped him so much in a year which began disastrously without him but then led to outstanding success in the second half of the year , culminating in the ATP Tour Championships title . |
| 6 | Poor old Ralph has to pay those . |
| 7 | Redpath decided to pay another call on the River Police . |
| 8 | The journey , arranged and paid for by Baron Grimm , was by the slowest means necessitating lengthy stops , where Mozart had to pay living expenses . |
| 9 | Nikko admitted paying 17,000 million yen ( $125,000,000 ) in compensation payments , while Nomura confessed to 16,500 million yen , Daiwa to 12,600 million yen and Yamaichi to 753,000,000 yen . |
| 10 | Granz had paid five figures for the painting in the early 1960s . |
| 11 | Among the princely luxuries which graced the feast was one lemon , one only , for which the Leathersellers had paid six silver pennies . |
| 12 | The amendment was intended to increase pressure on US allies to pay more of their common defence costs , and to prevent cuts in European armed forces before any formal agreement was reached with the Warsaw Pact at the Conventional Forces in Europe ( CFE ) talks in Vienna ( for proposals put forward in July see p. 36835 ) . |
| 13 | France agreed to pay more than half the cost of the programme provided that it was entrusted with its production and provided , also , that the rocket remain geared to the commercial needs of the 1980s and early 1990s . |
| 14 | I says , Steve gets paid this week , and you know that for a fact ! |
| 15 | Although Iraq had paid some $1,300 million ( or roughly one-half ) of the money for the ships , their delivery had been blocked by the imposition in 1986 of an Italian embargo on lethal weaponry to Iran and Iraq . |
| 16 | William Titford had paid five guineas during the 1870s for the exclusive right of burial in his chosen plot . |
| 17 | Fines of at least £50,000 were being widely predicted yesterday and there was speculation that Wimbledon 's punishment might even top the £75,000 Chelsea had to pay last year after crowd trouble at Stamford Bridge . |
| 18 | Worse still , interest rates shot up and Romania had to pay more and more to the Western banks simply to service the debt . |
| 19 | Ever since his return from Canada , William had paid regular visits to London , maintaining close contact with his cousin , John Galt , with whom he had attended school in Irvine . |
| 20 | During the same month the men of Essex agreed to pay 500 marks and five palfreys for the disafforestment of Essex north of the ‘ Stanestreet ’ . |
| 21 | In 1983 , the Lebanese– Saudi entrepreneur Rafiq Hariri had paid millions of dollars for the restoration of the city centre . |
| 22 | When Mr Hatton began paying large sums in I did attempt to persuade him to open one , the rate of interest being so desirable , you understand . |
| 23 | Some British firms doing business there are thinking of buying a car to transport staff from Tunisia or Egypt to Libya to save paying rapacious taxi drivers . |
| 24 | Although Ceausescu had paid most of the country 's $11,000,000 million foreign debt during the 1980s , depriving the Romanians of food for the sake of export revenues , it was expected that Romania would need to raise foreign loans before the end of the year . |
| 25 | On the 22nd of May Hatton had paid five hundred pounds into his bank account , his share , no doubt , of the mysterious and elusive hi-jacking haul . |
| 26 | On the 22nd Hatton had paid five hundred pounds into his bank and two days prior to that had either been in possession of a large sum of money or confident of acquiring it , for on the 21st , a Tuesday , he had ordered his new set of teeth . |
| 27 | Wexford leafed through it and saw that Hatton had paid twenty-five pounds for the lamp on May 22nd . |