Example sentences of "be paying [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Well , I think the idea is , that certainly large hotels could afford to pay a bigger collective bill than they 're paying at the moment .
2 Oh , so far from paying any extra for a another television set , you are not happy at paying what we 're paying at the moment ?
3 The only grass that 's well cut is where people cut it themselves outside their own house but , in particular , erm , th I would like to see the supervision of the contract and that we do n't cough up the money unless the job 's done properly because I think we 're paying for a job that 's not being either done at all , or when it is being done it 's not being done well .
4 So you 're paying for a service really are n't you ?
5 You 're paying for the hairdresser 's services and part of that is to receive whatever information about your hair you need .
6 ‘ Yes , because we know exactly what we 're paying for the next 3 years ’
7 Okay , we 've just signed the 8 album deal for 150 squillion quid with the record company , and they 're paying for the new gear .
8 You 're paying for the service , and I provide it .
9 You 're paying for the hole they should have dug provided it was at least as big as they
10 So you 're paying for he you 're paying for the
11 We 're paying for the heating .
12 But then you 're paying for the use of the boat as well are n't you ?
13 Yeah but there again you 're paying for the land are n't you ?
14 Mind you , you 're paying for the area are n't you ?
15 You 're paying for the two things you 're paying for the opportunity
16 You 're paying for the two things you 're paying for the opportunity
17 you 're paying for the opportu by that chap coming round
18 and doing that you 're paying for the opportunity of having erm other services
19 But because when you got the , you think you got the heating on and you 're paying for the heating , and you open the windows .
20 Erm , Chair , on the general financial position , it 's , it 's what I referred to earlier , as moving from somewhere where there were a direct employer or where we were grant-aiding a voluntary body to get on to a more , ultimately a more commercial footing , where we relate the money that we 're paying to the services that are being provided .
21 I mean , you know , when you think of what you 're paying as a , the other gentleman was saying , we are paying the thirty four pound twenty two pence a month , then you 've also got your poll tax above that , and then your mortgage as well !
22 A council that 's been paying for a fourteen-year-old criminal to stay in Spain has been criticised in court .
23 In some sense Angela may have been paying for the assets — they had assets valued at £600,000 then , most of it in the lease on the building .
24 The experts say that for a woman over about 40 , SERPS is definitely going to be better , and if she has been paying into a contracted out PP scheme up to that time , she should change over then .
25 For the widow of a younger man or of one who has not been paying into a personal pension scheme for very long , this could be a very small amount — perhaps only a few hundred pounds a year .
26 People are paying about the same this year as they did in 1991 , according to industry figures .
27 This year we are paying into the Common Market budget about £2.5 billion more than we receive in order to subsidise richer countries .
28 The old age pensioners are paying for a caravan including these , you know , facilities , and the people do n't get them !
29 Salon perms are expensive because you are paying for the expertise of the technician and their time — an average perm takes approx. two hours for short to mid-length hair , more if hair is longer .
30 ‘ But you are paying for the rehearsal period , for the creative process itself . ’
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