Example sentences of "paid [art] [noun] to " in BNC.

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1 previously , managers received all the artist 's money , deducted their commission and expenses , and finally paid the balance to the artist within an agreed period of time .
2 You should also ask clients whether they have paid a deposit to the estate agent .
3 Foresters of fee usually paid a farm to the warden of the forest : Hugh of Stratford , forester of fee of Wakefield in Northamptonshire , paid to John de Neville , warden of the forests between Oxford and Stamford bridges , 1234–1244 , as a farm for the aforesaid bailiwick , 2 ½ marks a year … and two quarters of nuts …
4 IN yesterday 's Daily Mirror we told you how Princess Diana had paid a visit to the Chiswick Family Rescue and published this picture of the Princess surrounded by mums .
5 Havel later paid a visit to the Berlin Wall .
6 In April 1990 Li Peng had paid a visit to the Soviet Union , the first by a Chinese Premier for 26 years [ see pp. 37373-74 ] .
7 Soares had paid a visit to Macao two months before his re-election .
8 Lee Kuan Yew subsequently paid a visit to Malaysia to brief Prime Minister Mohamed Mahathir on the agreement .
9 He remembered the occasion when they had paid a visit to St Whatever-it-was on Magdalen bridge in Oxford .
10 Now are aware that are losing the agency stuff therefore services should improve generally but this is mostly and the business travel , you know duty travel , cruise positioning that sort of thing , to the extent that erm and two of the ops people paid a visit to last week for a liaison meeting and one thing that I thought was absolutely remarkable that came out was in respect of complaining that they could never get through to anybody in erm in , they could n't get a reply from the extensions and they could n't send messages or anything .
11 A drugs squad officer has just paid a visit to the owner of a field full of cannabis — but he wo n't be making any arrests .
12 They were discussing the latest political crisis , and so paid no attention to the blushes of the cringing lass , as Mum spread soap on her .
13 The arm-chair socialists were too engrossed in scoring advantage points over each other and so paid no attention to the bell-ringer .
14 As they resumed their stroll along the beckside , he stole a sideways glance at her , wondering why he had paid no attention to her before .
15 For a long time , he continued , the Crown authorities had paid no attention to ‘ this clamour ’ but then a decision had been taken to recommend a free pardon .
16 The Collector himself had paid no attention to it , assuming it to be one of the many trivial ailments from which the garrison , deprived of adequate fresh food , was now suffering .
17 She had been so engrossed with Ana that she had paid no attention to the path and at this part it was narrow .
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