Example sentences of "had to pay for the " in BNC.

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1 She had to pay for the lavish colour brochure ( the details of which contained many mistakes ) , she provided the historical background and ran her feet off showing people over : all they did was make appointments ( underpaid girls did that ) and yet she had to pay them thousands .
2 How much extra would it cost you if you had to pay for the additional choc ices ?
3 I was sad about this because I am a clubbable person by nature , and have never regarded a game of golf as anything but an occasion of pleasurable social exchange ; but an end to Muirfield was the price I had to pay for the championing of Meehan 's cause .
4 The local communities had to pay for the equipment of the men selected and their expenses until they reached the county boundary , after which they served at the king 's wages .
5 In this last case the prime purpose of the prize is to benefit its giver ; if Barclays Bank had to pay for the column inches of publicity that its award brings it every year , there would be no Barclay 's Prize .
6 When I complained , the company said there was a clause on the processing envelope that said if anything went wrong , it only had to pay for the film .
7 However , despite the fact that I had to pay for the survey , the society will not allow me to have a copy of the report .
8 The government made little effort to conceal a belief that the rural sector had to pay for the development of the urban/industrial one .
9 The law of the land saw to it that gentry who did not conform to the new religion had to pay for the privilege .
10 It maybe still the same now , erm because right up to the time I erm retired we , we had on occasions to pay for the residual value of a tyre , perhaps a bus had been in accident and the tyre had suffered damage which it was n't possible to repair it or retread it , perhaps a hole had been pierced through the wall , they scrapped that tyre and we had to pay for the residual value , mind you being in accident we could then claim it off the insurance company but , so right up to the time I retired that 's how tyres were paid for .
11 The paper went on the say that such a move would at least give the people who came into the city centre greater reassurance , even if they had to pay for the privilege .
12 The bank had to pay for the account-holder 's loss .
13 British Rail recently put fares up on the affected routes saying customers had to pay for the vast improvements they 'd made .
14 No , and she had to pay for the petrol .
15 We had to pay for the doctor .
16 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 .
17 It 's very difficult , I had to pay for the sheep when the Chichester was here .
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