Example sentences of "paid [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Look , mother , ’ Craig held the book towards her , ‘ Mr Faraday 's account is short by several hundreds of pounds , this loss has partly been made good by taking money paid in to the company by General Webber . |
| 2 | Erm having made these contributions erm he got a note to the effect from the T P A that erm some of the money that he paid in to the A B C had to be repaid to him as a lump sum because the money coming from that sum would have taken his pension over the forty eightieths . |
| 3 | But Britain will be able to keep its rebate on contributions to the EC — allowing us to claw back £2 billion of the £4.5 billion a year paid in by the Treasury . |
| 4 | The goods which are impounded are then sold off at auction and the proceeds of sale , less charges , paid over to the plaintiff . |
| 5 | The English do not seem to have taken this too seriously ; the fyrd , or coastal militia , was disbanded and the fleet paid off at the most crucial time in late summer , only to be hastily recalled when Harold Hardrada , the Norwegian king , invaded the north . |
| 6 | The DUP says that Republican violence paid off in the disarming of the RUC , the disbanding of the B Specials , the banning of Orange , Black and Apprentice Boys ' parades resulting in the imprisonment of Loyalists , the overthrow of Ulster 's parliament , the plan for talks with Dublin to change the status of Northern Ireland within the United Kingdom , the abolishing of the Oath of Allegiance to the Queen in the new Assembly and Executive , the making of such oaths illegal for appointment to government boards , the removal of the Governor , the obliteration of ‘ On Her Majesty 's Service ’ from official paid envelopes , the attempt to destroy democracy by power-sharing which was a blow at the secrecy of the ballot box and an insult to British citizenship and standards , the proposal to set up machinery for the transfer of Northern Ireland 's powers to a body or bodies in or with the Irish Republic , and the continued existence of areas in Northern Ireland where the Queen 's writ did not effectually run . |
| 7 | The pressure paid off in the 58th minute when central defender Whelan , scorer of a late winner at Southend on Saturday , rose to direct a far-post header over Stowell , in the Wolves goal , from one of Thompson 's many excellent dead-ball crosses . |
| 8 | But it paid off in the end ; here was the pretty little Girl-Human walking over to talk to them , smiling up at them — Inchbad always noticed the fair , smooth skins of humans , whereas giantesses were apt to be a bit coarse and occasionally had incipient beards . |
| 9 | You can tell us where we are , paid off in the year conservatory . |
| 10 | The empire , at least in Africa , was thought likely to outlast the century , not least by socialist ministers ; and it was imagined that the Marshall Plan , paid off by the end of 1950 , might represent only a brief and passing reliance on the economy of the United States . |
| 11 | We paid out on the life of Greg Martin — and it seems the bastard was n't dead at all but living a life of luxury in Australia . ’ |
| 12 | The court held that the erratic payment of stock dividends by companies to shareholders ( even though stock dividends were received in 1962/63 and 1963/64 ) paid out to the life tenant , was such that the payments in the hands of the life tenant were in the nature of capital . |
| 13 | National income and national product , however , are both measured at ‘ factor cost ’ — that is , in terms of the sums paid out to the owners of factors of production — and this excludes indirect taxes and subsidies . |
| 14 | Clearly , every day will see large sums being received and paid out as the public and private sectors make payments to each other . |
| 15 | Therefore , for a child , compare the net interest rate paid out by the banks and building societies with the gross rate paid by others , notably National Savings products . |
| 16 | Therefore , for a child , compare the net interest rate paid out by the banks and building societies with the gross rate paid by others , notably National Savings products . |
| 17 | Therefore , for a child , compare the net interest rate paid out by the banks and building societies with the gross rate paid by others , notably National Savings products . |
| 18 | Unable to pay the ten shillings fine placed against him — a trifling sum , of course , compared with that paid out by the Cremorne merry-makers after their destructive binge — Alfred Berry was sentenced to seven days in the House of Correction . |
| 19 | Others , however , have clawback arrangements which aim to recover these and other costs paid out in the relocation exercise . |