Example sentences of "i paid " in BNC.
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| 1 | Would you mind desperately if just this once I paid at the other end ? ’ |
| 2 | It was dick-work , routing out pests , for which I paid a fair price . |
| 3 | I paid the woman at the cash desk and smiled at her . |
| 4 | I paid a Hackney second-hand dealer £100 a few years ago for seven black plastic bags of documents dating back to the seventeenth century — the contents of tin trunks removed from the basement of a firm of solicitors . |
| 5 | I paid in gold coins and got change in jewels , amethysts in gold mounts . |
| 6 | I paid good money for that , I said , ca n't I just have a last go on it ? |
| 7 | The money was in five-pound notes which I 'm afraid I paid straight into my bank . |
| 8 | They ask me how much I paid for everything I was wearing , how much I pay for my room at the pension , how much salary I shall be getting at the university — a salary to me ridiculously small , little more than pocket-money , but for the majority of working-class Spaniards a fortune . |
| 9 | I paid surreptitious trips to our old homes in Ada Street and West Avenue , where the fences my father had put up for Granny Kirkup before the war — in 1934 , I believe — were still standing round the long garden of ‘ Mundesley ’ , named after my grandmother 's birthplace . |
| 10 | Still good value so I paid without protesting . |
| 11 | In the group to which I paid closest attention my surprise was more at the unremarkable calibre of several who did get through than at any apparently unfairly rejected . |
| 12 | In the morning , I paid my disdainful landlady for the use of my room for the rest of the day . |
| 13 | No one wanted me to do the set , so I paid for it myself . |
| 14 | I paid our bill and we went — out into the cold blue day . |
| 15 | ( I did not earn , as Leslie imagined , three times his pay : in fact I got £200 a year , out of which I paid a pound a week income tax , a guinea a week for billeting , five shillings for transport , and the cost of meals at the cafeteria at Bletchley . |
| 16 | It then transpires that the chest is a valuable antique and the price I paid is ludicrously low . |
| 17 | I paid and gulped . |
| 18 | I paid Barry the fifteen dollars we had agreed on for a small , black Andean Equipment daysack to keep my new notebooks in and left him selling jewellery to his tour group . |
| 19 | I paid the hostel owner three thousand intis for the last time and he handed me the neat slip , carefully signed and stamped twice : ‘ Hostal America PAGADO . ’ |
| 20 | We first fished the South-west in the early 1960s when Ann and I paid a visit to Carsfad Reservoir , near New Galloway . |
| 21 | Then I paid the woman the five shillings she asked for her hospitality and went on my way . |
| 22 | Like any other youth , I was thrilled by the annual visits of the big circus , and when the Al G. Barnes Circus came to town I paid my own way in to the ‘ show ’ and sat up that night writing the first big-top review for the Times-Herald , which Fred Workman accepted with alacrity . |
| 23 | And I paid the first fine that I ever did . |
| 24 | ‘ I paid cash and drove away with a funny feeling in stomach over my decision , ’ Darren recalls . |
| 25 | I paid him a tribute , saying , ‘ He 's the godfather of British sprinting . |
| 26 | Then one day , just for old times ' sake , I paid a visit to Winston Street . |
| 27 | I paid for them , and I 'm hungry . ’ |
| 28 | What occurred after I left was related to me by the men of the village , when I paid the district a second visit some months later . |
| 29 | And I paid , with interest . |
| 30 | In formulating the diet I paid particular attention to moisture , realizing that , after all , the inclusion of fat in our daily diet added considerably to its palatability . |