Example sentences of "they paid for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'd never amount to a fortune — not at a penny a hundred points — but at least they paid for a few packets of cigarettes . |
| 2 | Publishing the prices once the sales are completed also raises problems of commercial confidentiality because the companies involved may be concerned that the price they paid for a business should not be revealed to their competitors . |
| 3 | If individual purchasers want to reveal what they paid for a company , it is a matter for them . |
| 4 | But in so doing , they ignored a continuing problem ; and they created a new one , for the price they paid for the French troops who solved the English military problem was a monarch who was taught to be French and Catholic , and who would return to her country only when both these things clashed with the prevailing balance of power in Scotland . |
| 5 | Wanting to keep their plans secret , and convinced that ‘ no one would fund such a crazy idea ’ , they paid for the initial experiments out of their own pockets . |
| 6 | and you were sort of given the time and and and er er you know I 'm sure they paid for the books or whatever you needed |
| 7 | Banks , and eventually borrowers , had the advantage that the rate of interest they paid for the deposit would be slightly less than that on a conventional time deposit . |
| 8 | He and a friend had been on a cycling tour of the Himalayas , when they paid for the papers from a local travel agent . |
| 9 | They paid for the holiday out of her redundancy money . |