Example sentences of "pay [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was piece work , and I earned I er The firm payed me as a retaining fee , ten shillings a week , and then was what I earned , you see ? |
| 2 | well if you think you might get some money at the end of the season , he said , you may find that you 'll be paying them at the end of the season ! |
| 3 | Every other week after that you paid them at the end every week , |
| 4 | That is the same price Leeds council paid them in the mid 1980 's and about £2.5m less than the local authority are looking for now . |
| 5 | included in mine , so it meant that they paid me for the summer holidays cos I did n't officially really |
| 6 | ‘ Oh , in cash , he paid me on the same day , insisted on doing so . |
| 7 | His own company had been paid his freelance fee by the BBC and he was taxed on what he paid himself as a salary from the company 's turnover . |
| 8 | That covers you for us paying you in the next week . |
| 9 | The richly-dressed one who paid you over the odds ? ’ |
| 10 | He did not , as he said on 9 December 1958 , when as owner of Be Careful he spoke at the Gimcrack dinner , object to bookmakers paying something towards the racing industry 's expenses . |
| 11 | ( In this particular area of using dictionaries in catalogue systems , the only precedent of which I am aware is of a university paying something in the region of $40–50,000 . ) |
| 12 | The boy showed little talent for the business and hardly earned the £2 10s Mr Marshall paid him at the end of the week . |
| 13 | Sometimes he would be able to hire a premium artist , one who paid him for the privilege of playing . |
| 14 | I paid him in the end , yeah . |
| 15 | Francie paid him from a thick but grimy roll of notes . |
| 16 | I paid her for the call , and stayed chatting for a while , answering her queries about the cottage and then telling her of my brother 's expected arrival , and the possibility that he might telephone with a message . |
| 17 | She had found Doreen at an early stage , and paid her over the odds to keep the house running smoothly . |
| 18 | Until Charlie paid her at the end of the week , Lucy would again be in her usual flat-broke condition . |
| 19 | Exactly and if you do n't pay it , and there are a few silly old so and sos not paying it at the moment , I mean the rest of us have had to pa |
| 20 | If somebody takes a Covermaster plan out at twenty five , we expect them to be paying it for a long time , if he takes it out at fifty five , we expect him to pay less . |
| 21 | So really erm er you 'd have to be a bit careful if you were doing that , and er I think the revenue would be pretty iffy about you holding money and paying it to a third party . |
| 22 | British Aerospace WO N'T have to repay almost forty-five million pounds which the Government paid it as an inducement to buy the Rover car company . |
| 23 | Paid it through the court . |
| 24 | During his two years as Second Secretary , Administration , in Kingston , Jamaica , when he had responsibility for the accounts , he withdrew $150,000 from the Commission 's US dollar account and paid it into a personal account in America . |
| 25 | Macnaghten J. dealt with the question whether the action is maintainable on the ground of the principle of Foakes v. Beer ( above , p.240 ) , to which I have referred , and he says : ‘ In the present case the jury , by their verdict , have found that on July 6 Mr. Kennard made an offer that if , on the following day , the plaintiff obtained the money and paid it into a bank at Eastbourne with instructions to remit it to the account of Stanley Evans & Co. at the Law Courts branch of the Bank of England , he would not serve the bankruptcy notice . |
| 26 | It is obviously irrelevant to speculate on what if anything was in the mind of the clerk or other subordinate officer who actually received the money , or in the mind of the officer ( whoever he or she may have been ) who paid it into the bank to the defendants ' credit . |
| 27 | ‘ They paid it in the day before . |
| 28 | He paid it in the same spirit that he washed himself-obsessively . |
| 29 | so I paid it in the November , the second of December they announce me redundancy do n't they ? |
| 30 | and if we paid it before the end of January |