Example sentences of "to pay [pers pn] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 And perhaps with Linnet at her side she might pluck up courage , one of these days , to pay them a call .
2 The plaintiff instructed the defendants , a firm of estate agents , to sell his house and agreed to pay them a percentage of the selling price as commission .
3 " You wo n't have to pay them a penny .
4 Of course , her generous spirit about staff using the amenities of the lodge also allowed her to pay them a pittance that had made Charity 's small salary as an intern seem princely .
5 ‘ Do we have to pay them a lot of money ? ’
6 Further , when acting for the buyer of a leasehold property there will probably be a covenant in the lease to register all transfers , mortgages and other dispositions with the lessor 's solicitors and to pay them a fee prescribed for such registration .
7 On the other hand , if the directors hold a controlling interest it may be necessary to pay them a premium for their shareholdings and ( because of the requirement of equality of treatment under the Code ) for the shareholdings of the minority shareholders ;
8 The Long Island-based company D'Addario are one of the big manufacturers ( not one that makes strings for other people , incidentally ) and in the interests of shedding a hard journalistic light on a somewhat murky area we decided to pay them a visit .
9 I decided to pay them a visit .
10 I 'm going to pay them a visit . ’
11 He started telling me that I was an emotional cretin and to improve I 'd have to pay them a load of money to get into their reading room — at £10 an hour .
12 The agency have agreed to pay me a retainer for a couple of weeks while I think about what I 'd like to do next . ’
13 Most of the times living in Soweto , I have police coming to pay me a visit , which they usually call ’ routine ’ checks .
14 then they 'll have to pay you a bit more money , yo you know , to come back like that and say well yeah I do n't
15 I think I could afford to pay you a rhinu a day . ’
16 And he 's already seen you , he likes you , and he 's willing to pay you a professional 's fee even though he knows you 're an amateur , and — ‘
17 The problem is that with the advent of the ‘ promo ’ clip and the likes of MTV producing vast amounts of programming built around it , pop programming has become synonymous with music video , and no-one is going to pay you a lot of money for that , even if your programme ( like ours ) originates its own material .
18 They went as far as offering to pay him a retainer on top of his rep salary for two years .
19 I 'll only have to pay him a dollar and the cartage , and there 'll be enough to cover the rest of the yard .
20 It seemed the letter writer had decided to pay him a visit .
21 In case Chambers should catch this new form of laughing sickness Nora decided to pay him a visit .
22 The defendants wrote to him and told him that they had decided to pay him a pension of £200 a year and that he was at liberty to enter into any other employment or enter any business , ‘ except in the wool trade . ’
23 However , you will be expected to pay her a fee , as weddings do provide part of the local church organist 's salary .
24 " So you 're along to pay her a visit , is that it ? "
25 I said I do n't know how you dare sit there and say you have n't paid that Alice , she 's paid a fiver I says I 'd be ashamed , I said I wish mine was only that , so she phoned up to make arrangements to pay it a pound a week thirty two pound , that 's all hers is Wendy , for the year
26 ‘ And so you decided to pay us a visit . ’
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