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 . |