Example sentences of "[pers pn] pay for [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I did well , I had hundred pound in me purse last night till Steve says can I have me pocket money and can I have me petrol and can I have this and I paid for coal and I 've got forty .
2 Perhaps more significantly , however , it is where she paid for lunch on a number of occasions with James Gilbey , her swooning suitor of The Squidgy Tapes fame .
3 How much is she paying for school ?
4 Both will keep down our costs — costs that are reflected in the price you pay for electricity .
5 Your 3-day break voucher for two is incorporated in this brochure ; this entitles you to stay for three nights free of charge , when you pay for breakfast and dinner at your chosen hotel .
6 Somebody 's asked the price you pay for genius
7 You pay for right of allocation of units .
8 And you pay for quality .
9 Social services departments may also be able to help you pay for work not covered by disabled facilities grants , and can also provide additional facilities to make the property safer , more comfortable and more convenient .
10 How much did you pay for telly ?
11 HOW DO YOU PAY FOR MEMBERSHIP ?
12 How much a week rent do you pay for ground ?
13 There are some social security benefits which may help you to pay for care .
14 We paid for tea , but the money went to the Red Cross .
15 If dross is the price we pay for freedom of expression , there is nevertheless a point at which such dross may become pernicious .
16 Serious worries about this disappearing vital resource herald big changes in the way we pay for water supplies .
17 There are three separate but interacting processes which determine how much we pay for welfare from the public purse .
18 I mean death is the price we pay for life , and at some point or other it 's very desirable to depart from this world certainly .
19 We pay for loss or total destruction of items on the basis of cost of replacement as new .
20 Eva tolerated them since they paid for Dad 's thoughts and therefore her dinner , but when they went into the bedroom to chant I heard her say to Dad , as she put on her yellow silk blouse for that brilliant evening , ‘ The future should n't contain too much of the past . ’
21 The price they paid for admission was the sacrifice of industrial democracy : Co-operation by largely foregoing the promotion of Industrial Co-operation , trade unionism by making the maintenance or improvement of their members ' working conditions the prime object .
22 But the present gap of two or three percentage points between the short rates they pay for money and long yields on gilts may not be enough to tempt them .
23 Now those Next Directory customers , they pay for a delivery service whereas with like the Grattan and it 's free you do n't they pay for delivery and we guarantee that they will get forty eight hour delivery service
24 She remembered how she had looked at Rose in some surprise , and said , ‘ Yes , that would be swell , but I have n't enough money with me to pay for supper . ’
25 So now , Hanson has recouped well over £1billion of the £3.3billion it paid for ConsGold .
26 He paid for water to be piped from the valley 1,500ft below the village and for a proper tarmacadam road to be constructed , linking it to the twin towns of Couiza and Montazels in the valley below .
27 They call it Pay for Performance , and it is still the first-line manager who decides who is performing .
28 Let's call it Pay for Childcare .
29 The Spanish government is objecting to an EC plan for a network of nature reserves across the Europe , on the grounds that the Community 's richer countries should help it pay for conservation .
30 ‘ We used it to pay for car hire , the hall , flowers and drinks .
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