Example sentences of "pay [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Villani , were tenants of land not held on demesne by the Lord of the Manor , who payed rent partly in money but mostly by service such as finding horses , oxen , ploughs and labour at specified periods , and sometimes providing for the lords table . |
| 2 | Today her school payed tribute to her courage and fulfilled her final wish , the planting of 2 trees in her memory . |
| 3 | Under it , the member paid part of the debt and costs to be taken for the debt and costs in the action . |
| 4 | Sixty years ago four million people paid income tax , now more than 40 million do . |
| 5 | Queen Victoria paid income tax , but the practice was steadily eroded until it was abolished by George VI , the Queen 's father . |
| 6 | He had arranged for him to fly to an Italian song festival which was n't just Italian , it was an international song festival , of the lesser variety , but one which paid money . |
| 7 | But he was troubled about a possible imputation of simony if he , as a very recently appointed prelate , paid money to the king . |
| 8 | The Lower Exchequer , also called the Exchequer of Receipt — misleadingly so , since it paid money out as well — took in revenue from royal collectors and handed over receipts in the form of tallies , which could then be presented in the Upper Exchequer at the audit . |
| 9 | I follow Rachel up the stairs , feeling like I just paid money in one of those Soho hotels where you take a girl and hire a room by the hour . |
| 10 | In IRC v Plummer [ 1979 ] STC 793 , a " Reverse Annuity Scheme " was entered into under which a charity paid money to the taxpayer who covenanted to make annual payments to the charity for the period of five years or during the remainder of the life of the taxpayer whichever be the shorter . |
| 11 | In the old days when there was a possibility of of erm ad hoc payments made , er that sort of thing was taken of , since the takeover of the company , that has n't happened to the same extent so there 's a very strong feeling with the older pay er pensioners that they paid money into a pension scheme which now shows a surplus , but other people are benefiting from it . |
| 12 | In the old days when there was a possibility of of erm ad hoc payments made er that sort of thing was taken care of , since the takeover of the company that has n't happened to the same extent , so there 's a very strong feeling with the older pay er pensioners that they paid money into a pension scheme which now shows a surplus , but other people are benefiting from it . |
| 13 | The notion of paying GP 's to provide certain specified standards of service and undertake certain preventative health measures was a step forward , in terms of both public health accountability and promoting better health . |
| 14 | Fireman Robb half-turned in the act of paying sevenpence to the barman . |
| 15 | I saw he would feel better if I did , as if paying money would somehow excuse the act . |
| 16 | But until you 're really big you 've just got to realise that there are some things worth paying money for and some things that are n't . |
| 17 | But Samantha Sherratt of the Howard League for Penal Reform said : ‘ I would n't want people paying money to come and look at me as if I was in a zoo or a fishbowl . |
| 18 | But a spokeswoman for the Howard League for Penal Reform fumed : ‘ If I was in jail I would n't want people paying money to come and look at me as if I was in a zoo . ’ |
| 19 | Er , you know , they 're actually paying money to the government every time they buy and every budget day the cigarettes go up . |
| 20 | If I could have kept him away by paying money , I certainly would have paid money . |
| 21 | If you bought straight from him we would n't be paying money to the galleries , but I can see you 're frightened to go , I said , so there 's an end to it . |
| 22 | Countries paying money to users of contraception : BANGLADESH , EGYPT , INDIA , INDONESIA , MALAYSIA , MAURITIUS , NEPAL , SOUTH KOREA , SRI LANKA , THAILAND , TUNISIA , VIETNAM |
| 23 | During November there had been difficulties in paying money held in hard currency accounts to foreigners , a sign of the shortage of hard currency in the union account . |
| 24 | I was paying money out , illicitly . |
| 25 | I was paying money to the paramilitaries . ’ |
| 26 | It has been said that the surety 's obligation is simply that of paying money and , of course , in a sense that is true if one looks only at the remedy which the landlord has against him in the event of default by the tenant . |
| 27 | Mahmoud , Owen knew , did not like paying money for information . |
| 28 | That er it should be any account for a pension fund should carry the name of pension fund and any transactions involved with pension fund money wh it should be a duty of the Financial Institution to make sure that any account they were paying money into was a pension fund account . |
| 29 | Even letting you you 've all talked about the you know employers are paying money in and so on , we do n't want the schemes wound up , er if I was the the employer , might I not be concerned if you elected a a chairman that was n't erm favourable to me ? |
| 30 | ‘ It is not just the diggers and baiters we want to catch , it is the people who are paying money for the badgers . |