Example sentences of "he [verb] pay for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He took a pride in his job and he did n't mind how many hours he put in as long as he got paid for them . |
| 2 | He got paid for the work that erm |
| 3 | In the meantime , it is his only source of income and he has to pay for everything out of it , both his personal and official expenses , including the upkeep of his and Diana 's homes , their household , their wardrobes , the children 's schooling , the official cars , and the cost of entertaining . |
| 4 | The loss he has to pay for is that which has actually followed under such circumstances upon his wrong . |
| 5 | Dr Mowlam said Jeffrey 's asthma and eczema were getting worse as a result of the stress and worry about the money he has to pay for the medication . |
| 6 | Often the children weigh in like bloated adults and when the tanks are filled ( because Dad believes in making use of what he has paid for ) we have an over-loaded wonderplane that is very likely out of its C of G limits . |
| 7 | The problem can also arise where Y takes goods from X under a sale of goods contract which contains a retention of title clause , i.e. a clause stating that Y is not to become the owner unless and until he has paid for them and that if Y re-sells them before paying for them , X 's ownership is to transfer from the goods to the proceeds of the re-sale received by Y. Suppose Y sells the goods to Z before he has paid X for them . |
| 8 | This is most likely to occur where he agrees with his seller that property shall not pass to him until he has paid for them . |
| 9 | He desecrated the tomb ; he has paid for it . ’ |
| 10 | Stellato says he has paid for his crime , but believes the sentence was a mistake . |
| 11 | Stellato says he has paid for his crime , but believes the sentence was a mistake . |
| 12 | Not that she would have fooled anyone as she was , but eighteen months of good food and expert surgery had transformed her , making the thousand yuan he 'd paid for her seem the merest trifle . |
| 13 | He 'd paid for insurance but the travel agency had n't passed his premium on to its insurers . |
| 14 | But if elected on June 8th , he plans to pay for it by leasing the city 's international airport for 30 years to a private-sector manager . |
| 15 | ‘ How 's he going to pay for it ? ’ he asked , trying not to appear over-anxious . |
| 16 | He reckons that if he were getting paid on the same basis that he gets paid for GP beds , in a small GP unit , he could afford to employ the additional staff , and resources and back-up to help make it all happen . |
| 17 | ‘ That 's what he gets paid for but it 's giving me more grey hairs . ’ |
| 18 | Does he have to pay for it now ? |
| 19 | would he get paid for that ? |
| 20 | When told he had to pay for it , he said he was ‘ just warming it up ’ . |
| 21 | That 's punishment , yeah , they would either do that or there was one driver down there he broke a wheel , that were n't his fault , and he had to pay for it , he had to go in the office like I did once . |
| 22 | He 's a fucker , I ca n't stick him he 's the most snobbish little cunt I 've ever known I 'd like to see what stuff he had if he had to pay for it himself |
| 23 | In fact then he by that time he was living in Leeds , so he had to pay for the cost of removal from my store to Leeds . |
| 24 | She went on the skiing holiday he had paid for and accepted his excuse about his daughter 's measles without a moment 's hesitation . |
| 25 | Since he had paid for my food and lodgings , this was an additional kindness I had not expected . |
| 26 | Some drapery establishments were plain , if expensive : Parson Woodforde , paying a call on one in Southampton Street in the October of 1786 , was £13 6s. worse off after he had paid for ‘ … table linnen , muslin , a piece of Holland , cravats , etc . ’ . |
| 27 | When she was older , he had paid for her to go to school , proud of her ability to read and write and work out figures . |
| 28 | Mr Edward Morris wanted several pairs of boots to be soled and heeled and what 's more he had paid for the work in advance . |
| 29 | Forty thousand pounds he had paid for it , a sum which now seemed laughably small , but which in those days had been a vast amount to pay for a private house , even in such a prime position . |
| 30 | In Slater v. Burnley Corporation ( 1888 ) 59 L.T. 636 the plaintiff sued to recover an overcharge of water rates which he had paid for one quarter , but did not succeed . |