Example sentences of "paid for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Continental bulls sold to £300 , £295 and £275 all paid for Simmentals with continental heifers to £195 paid for a Belgian Blue . |
| 2 | A mahogany double drop leaf dining table with four matching dining chairs sold for £230 ; a mahogany D-end patent leaf dining table and four matching chairs made £160 with a similar price being paid for a cast iron circular garden table . |
| 3 | his mate says it 's his birthday and his dad paid for a recording session somewhere . |
| 4 | Asahi Shimbun newspapers have paid for a new , environmentally controlled area to be constructed for their display . |
| 5 | He may have been the ‘ Maister Vartu ’ who worked on the church of St Mary-at-Hill in London in 1502 , and the ‘ Vertu the mason ’ paid for a new window at St Anthony 's Hospital , Threadneedle Street , London . |
| 6 | Having paid for a private room , Lucien was escorted by a young vaporeuse through another labyrinth of corridors to a row of cubicles . |
| 7 | And £100 was paid for a like concession for the wapentake of Anstey in Yorkshire . |
| 8 | That notoriety explains why Simon & Schuster paid $275,000 for the translation rights , the highest sum ever paid for a Japanese book . |
| 9 | On the one hand , the size of the guarantee which must be paid for a famous player 's name and , on the other , how much support the player would give to the company . |
| 10 | Hundreds of trippers who had paid for a front-row seat in a grandstand overlooking the departing flotilla left in anger when they were told the scaffolding viewpoint was potentially unsafe and would not be used . |
| 11 | A George Gillespie oil painting , Coastal Scene , sold for £525 at Andersons and a similar price was paid for a three-piece Victorian suite . |
| 12 | And I was able to do this , so that half the fee was being paid for a three-piece suite going , some boxes , to another address , and then this bedroom suite was taking the other half of the charge back . |
| 13 | That was the fate of the worker on the Anglo American farm estate Vergelegen , dismissed for asking his employers why he was not paid for a public holiday . |
| 14 | If the dead person has paid for a grave space in the churchyard , there will be a document called a ‘ faculty ’ in existence , and you will need to produce this . |
| 15 | In 1987 a Sotheby 's appraiser valued the seriously damaged panels at $1.25 million , reaching that figure by dividing the auction price paid for a celebrated Thomas Hart Benton mural by three . |
| 16 | The last straw was the court revelation that Mona Bauwens , the daughter of a PLO official , paid for a luxury holiday for Mellor and his family . |
| 17 | The Mirror revealed last week that tax-payers paid for a luxury £3,000 bath installed in Diana 's private apartments at Kensington Palace . |
| 18 | Malc 's Mom held a small reception for us , doing the catering herself ( potted meat sandwiches with the crusts cut off ) and paid for a four-day honeymoon in Blackpool , where the landlady would sell us contraceptives — I was n't showing , and pride forced us to put on an act — but said we were too young to smoke and refused us cigarettes . |
| 19 | Storage costs are paid for a maximum period of 12 months in local authorities , six months at Nabisco and three months at Pilkingtons . |
| 20 | The Avery prize paid for a free place for four years at Redmond College , one of the best colleges in Canada . |
| 21 | The cost of the engraving alone would have paid for an entire single-cone Style O guitar |
| 22 | Flight magazine Vols 1–8 sold for £500 and posters , so often featured in Collectair , received an enthusiastic welcome , some £460 being paid for an Imperial Airways HP.42 Travel in Comfort example . |
| 23 | ‘ Last year the Yorkshire committee paid for an extensive coaching programme for six weeks to help youngsters in the area who were predominantly of Pakistani and Indian background . |
| 24 | er , from , I should get paid for the disabled games |
| 25 | Er , I got paid , I got paid for the disabled games last year |
| 26 | He was detected at the check-out point before he had paid for the joint and later convicted of theft contrary to section 1(1) of the Act of 1968 . |
| 27 | Pool boss Alan Murray is refusing to reveal the fee paid for the new man , but it is believed to be about £50,000 . |
| 28 | This was reflected in the prices paid for the average in-calf and maiden heifer , which at times made no more than a good commercial first-calver at Carlisle . |
| 29 | Does he agree that the price being paid by 2.5 million unemployed this Christmas is too high , and that if a price has to be paid for the economic mess that our country is in , it should be paid in full by himself and his ragbag of right hon. Friends ? |
| 30 | Even though open systems may be able to meet requirements at a lower cost than perhaps the traditional proprietary systems , if you 've already paid for the traditional proprietary system , clearly there is no saving to be made by throwing it away and replacing it with the equivalent functionality on new technology . |