Example sentences of "[n mass] pay for [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The previous record was the £20,000 paid for winger Paul Dalton ( Manchester United ) and left back Paul Cross ( Barnsley ) .
2 Assume a German importer has $4m to pay for US cotton , then at DM 3.98–4.02 this will cost DM 16.08m ( $4m × DM4.02 ) .
3 Most people pay for milk by cheque so milkman do n't carry much money with them .
4 A saving is one way of looking at it or profiting from education is another way , apparently what the Conservatives would wish to do , they wish to make people pay for education and there is no other way of looking at it .
5 THE WORLD 'S highest auction price for a work of art , the £30.2m paid for Van Gogh 's Irises , was achieved after the auctioneers , Sotheby 's , had advanced half the money to Alan Bond , the Australian entrepreneur , it was revealed yesterday .
6 In the suckler ring , another good entry of 35 continued to meet a sharp trade and sold to a top of £960 paid for Limousin heifer with bull calf at foot .
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