Example sentences of "to pay for [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Have they to pay for her to be there ? |
| 2 | ‘ Would it be possible , if I could get a job , to pay for her in a private home , with part of her pension added on ? |
| 3 | In the far north-east and Karnchatka a common marriage practice was the residence of the husband in the family of his bride for a certain period of time , in order to pay for her by performing work for the family . |
| 4 | Texas still has about the weakest campaign-finance laws of any big state , and some of its politicians still rely on lobbyists to pay for everything from trips and meals to golf tournaments . |
| 5 | And then there was all this problem of who was going to pay for him for the rest of his life because he was a vegetable . ’ |
| 6 | But the only way the BBC can afford to make original programmes for relatively limited audiences , such as science , is to pay for them with the profits generated by the sale of archive material of wider appeal . |
| 7 | The key to the success of such releases , though , is always that you do not have to pay for them with significant amounts of guilt or regret the next morning . |
| 8 | We w er we would , we would only need to pay for them at the rate where they lived . |
| 9 | The ability to develop new drugs is now greater than most countries ' ability to pay for them without rationing or screening systems — for example , France controls individual prices and Germany has initiated a reference system which pays a basic price for all drugs in the same category . |
| 10 | Oh well just have to pay for them between us . |
| 11 | Under the new rules , local firms importing goods valued at under $30,000 can receive only 15% of the hard currency needed to pay for them in advance , with the remainder allocated only after goods have cleared customs and value-added tax has been paid . |
| 12 | Whatever his sins , he was being forced to pay for them in public — well , as public as the Secret Service ever wanted to get . |
| 13 | Passed on Sept. 12 the Senate appropriations bill , in contrast to the House 's , also allowed the government , which was currently banned from financing abortions for poor women , to pay for them in cases of rape and incest . |
| 14 | When a customer wants to pay for something through the system , he or she presents a banker 's card or a Visa credit card to the shopkeeper . |
| 15 | I bought myself a mug of tea at the counter in order to pay for something for a change , then I sat and waited for Kathleen . |
| 16 | A rule of thumb is that investment in energy efficiency is expected to pay for itself in two years . |
| 17 | Last year , a passive solar collector on a house would have been expected to pay for itself in 12 to 15 years . |
| 18 | Investment in an agency , branch or subsidiary will be expected to pay for itself by generating extra business . |
| 19 | Speaking by its swimming pool , playboy Count de Beaumont said Mellor never attempted to pay for anything during the 1990 holiday . |
| 20 | It serves no real purpose and eventually we have to pay for it to be taken away . |
| 21 | A little later , Emily was looking through her accounts and came across a bill for French calf ; thoughtfully , she turned it over in her hands , Hari would need to buy the calf too and the usual practice was to pay for it at the end of the month . |
| 22 | These are the things that they 're having to pay for it with , and the reason being , is the Social Services in this county were a diabolically low level , and people were definitely suffering from it . |
| 23 | And and I had to pay for it of course . |
| 24 | we have to pay for it About the did n't leave it on the living , kitchen table . |
| 25 | A bit of fat never did a boy any harm , but we 're not going to pay for it as if it was lean . |
| 26 | But if elected on June 8th , he plans to pay for it by leasing the city 's international airport for 30 years to a private-sector manager . |
| 27 | A plump woman in a white wool suit and dark glasses bought it and tried to pay for it by cheque . |
| 28 | The motive was simple and comparatively cost-free : if the Lebanese villagers allowed armed Palestinians to take shelter among their homes , then they would be made to pay for it in blood . |
| 29 | It 's excellent value for the price but you have to pay for it in full . |
| 30 | That is to say , he was prepared to commission an article for The Criterion and to pay for it in advance . |