Example sentences of "[was/were] paying for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | GUESTS staying in Holiday Inn hotels did n't realise they were paying for a surprise extra — a peephole for staff to spy on them in bed . |
| 2 | Angela and Chris , both 28 , thought the bride 's parents , Norman and Gladys Smith , were paying for a buffet lunch , and both families would share the reception costs . |
| 3 | No one would object if they were paying for the facilities themselves . |
| 4 | Angela and Chris , both 28 , thought the bride 's parents , Norman and Gladys Smith , were paying for the lunchtime buffet , and both families would share the cost of the evening reception . |
| 5 | 12 Grace Leybourne buttressed such arguments in Education and the Birth Rate by demonstrating that the middle classes and the intelligent were paying for the high costs of education by family limitation at the dysgenic expense of the national interest . |
| 6 | Seventy five I think , yeah , seventy five I think they were paying for the . |
| 7 | Do n't ask me to pluck figures out of the air , but it was a reasonable rent , and they were paying for the rates , and their electricity , and their water supply , and their sewage disposal , on permanent sites . |
| 8 | One of the fellows was paying for the éclair anyway . |
| 9 | Yet the DSS was paying for the place and she could have shopped around if she had been provided with the help to do this . |
| 10 | Loretta was paying for the tickets at the cash desk when she felt a hand on her shoulder . |