Example sentences of "[vb past] to pay for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The raiders also made off with more than £700 in cash collected to pay for summer outings . |
| 2 | Two weeks ago thieves broke into the building and stole the karaoke machine , and more than £700 in cash collected to pay for summer outings . |
| 3 | He says it came as a great shock , although when she was a drug addict they had wondered how she managed to pay for heroin . |
| 4 | Invalids made to pay for Government 's ills |
| 5 | Invalids made to pay for Government 's ills |
| 6 | Invalids made to pay for Government 's ills |
| 7 | Now the Board had to pay for Whiterock College , this could mean reducing the budget all around for other Colleges . |
| 8 | In 1932 , the young hopeful Graham Greene had to pay for part of Stamboul Train to be reprinted after J B Priestley had objected to ‘ Mr Savory ’ , a pompous writer of potboiling sagas . |
| 9 | A teacher from an urban school , discussing the reasons for a recent teachers ' strike , said that not only were salaries low when the amount of time worked outside classroom hours was taken into account , but also teachers often had to pay for classroom materials out of their own pockets , if they wanted to have any . |
| 10 | The main weakness of the programme was that schooling could hardly be called accessible when those who were supposed to benefit from it had to pay for tuition . |
| 11 | Until recently , diesel cars were slow and very noisy , the theory being that this was the price you had to pay for economy . |
| 12 | So we paid that because they wanted and then we had to pay for stock . |
| 13 | If we wished to pay for welfare in a way that was less burdensome on the poor without being massively destructive to the higher income groups what might be done ? |
| 14 | No one wanted to pay for music ; the general feeling was that it should flow free from the celestial spheres . |
| 15 | When we consulted our customers on how they wanted to pay for water , there was no clear preference . |