Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] be paid [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shearer , who was transferred to Blackburn Rovers last season , told the court he was paid seven hundred pounds cash as a reward for winning three games in a row . |
| 2 | That same month he was paid 3/6 per 100 for filling 471 kibbles which came to 16/5 from which 1/2 was deducted for candles , and 1/ for a spade . |
| 3 | Edinburgh District Council is facing legal action over the official who 's paid four hundred pounds a week to do nothing . |
| 4 | Nobody ever got rich by just going on talk shows — well , not on mine , anyway — and when you 're talking about actors who are paid millions of pounds for one film , then I suspect their accountants advise them against it . |
| 5 | If they have an arrow in the gold they are paid two shillings ( no decimalisation here ) , if they have a hit in the red , blue or black they receive one shilling , but if they have hit the outer white the bowman has to pay one shilling into the pool . |
| 6 | The oversize was broken , or ragged , where it fell by older or stronger boys or women , using heavy sledgehammers , for which task they were paid 1½ pence per barrow load . |