Example sentences of "had [been] paid for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said he had been paid for the picture , but admitted that ‘ in order to entice bidders ’ he had agreed with Sotheby 's that payment would be spread over three instalments . |
| 2 | He had been paid for by his country of origin — reared and raised as capitalist underdevelopment had willed it for the labour markets of Europe . ’ |
| 3 | He had heard that forty pounds a year had been paid for a girl to be looked after in the asylum of Dr Perfect in West Malling . |
| 4 | A consignment of vital arms for the war with the accursed President Sadeq of Iraq had been paid for by Teheran , to be delivered by ship . |
| 5 | Furthermore three of the company 's directors , who had never met , had been paid for use of their names . |
| 6 | The payment of seamen 's wages only when the owner had been paid for the freight carried , on the ancient maxim that " freights are the mother of wages " , was discontinued and payment required on the basis of service , whether freight was carried or not . |
| 7 | The seats had been paid for by the City Corporation . |
| 8 | And just what had been paid for in this case ? |
| 9 | There was some prospect for change in foreign economic relations , however , and West German businesspeople who visited Pyongyang in September said that the North Korean government was eager to attract foreign investment in high technology and might resume debt interest repayments when the Olympic stadium , costing $5,000 million , had been paid for . |
| 10 | In the course of the hearings it emerged that a number of other former government officials had been paid for lobbying on housing developments . |
| 11 | The first Cabinet member to be linked with the Sagawa scandal was Transport Minister Keiwa Okuda , who on March 1 admitted that the salary of one of his aides had been paid for by the transport group at the centre of the scandal . |
| 12 | Exports to them had increased by 200 per cent and they were taking more than half of British exports.30 Colonial trade enabled Britain to pay for continued imports of linens , wines and timber from Europe with re-exported colonial products , which had been paid for by the export of domestic manufactures . |
| 13 | The building materials sold to third parties during the year had cost £14,000 of which all but £1,000 had been paid for by December 1990 . |
| 14 | But not even the penny-pinching Strange could have complained overmuch about the price that had been paid for the extraordinary information Morse had gleaned . |
| 15 | In civil law the victim had a " lien " over the car , which meant that he was entitled to keep the car until the repairs had been paid for . |
| 16 | That Sirteco was obliged to do no more than inform the foreign commerce ministry that the waste disposal contract had been paid for illustrates the failure of the Italian government to monitor the international activities of waste disposal companies . |
| 17 | The house had been paid for but when Mr Harris went bankrupt it went to the receiver . |