Example sentences of "[noun] pay for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And whats more the club payed for the flags to be fireproofed when they realised what a potential fire hazard they were . |
| 2 | Lucy paid for the coffee and the rolls full of ham and cheese . |
| 3 | Donna paid for the teas and the two women walked out to the Fiesta and got in . |
| 4 | Tam paid for the drinks and they walked across to a table by the door . |
| 5 | Clients pay for the service on a quarterly basis and they know that the air will be kept clean , without any additional expenditure on repairs or maintenance ’ . |
| 6 | The practice looked all too much like an effort to make the Scots pay for the French , and for French interests . |
| 7 | Transport academics argue that road pricing would make drivers pay for the cost of congestion . |
| 8 | It is not just an effort to raise funds to pay for the continuance of the maypole-raising , but a way of instilling the custom into the children . |
| 9 | A total of £62m will be available from July 1 for nine months to pay for the schemes , which include asthma and diabetes management programmes . |
| 10 | They want the department to pay for the management and care costs involved in running the homes . |
| 11 | We will also raise the basic rate of income tax by one penny in the pound to pay for the improvements essential to education . |
| 12 | Israel felt emboldened to ask America for massive extra economic aid to pay for the damage caused by the state of emergency , the prolonged military alert — and the arrival of hundreds of thousands of new Soviet Jewish immigrants . |
| 13 | He invited his clients to pay for the privilege of cutting his locks and raised £1,000 for the Chest Heart and Stroke Association . |
| 14 | And although they maintained none of County Durham 's 5,000 teachers would lose their jobs the higher than expected pay deal will make the county dig into its reserves to pay for the salary hike . |
| 15 | He originally planned to earn enough cash selling computers to pay for the time he spent on the race track . |
| 16 | And the brothel-owners paid for the restoration of village temples and schools to help keep up the supply of young girls . |
| 17 | The £9,500 paid for the stallion was far beyond the previous record for a Clydesdale . |
| 18 | Punters pay for the numbers of crosses they mark on a picture of a football match . |
| 19 | An old lady pays for the loaf and ½ ; lb butter in her wire basket , but you notice a jar of your own brand coffee in her shopping bag . |
| 20 | Only a maniac , he said , would think that the wretched pittance of the industrious poor should be wrung out of their pockets to pay for the follies and profligate expenses of anyone . |
| 21 | Virginia Bottomley , Minister for Health , has announced that some people on low incomes who also find it difficult to visit their local opticians will be able to get help from the NHS to pay for the optician to visit them at home . |
| 22 | A comment of interest , when subscriptions to pay for the bell were not forthcoming appears in the Church magazine : " This is a matter which the Non-conformist might reasonably be expected to support , a fine peal of bells is something for all inhabitants of Halling to be proud of , they are rung on many occasions , which have nothing to do with church services " . |
| 23 | The nub of it is that since this is a double room Rachel is therefore cohabiting , and she is not entitled to state help to pay for the rent . |
| 24 | Trafalgar eventually gave in when the Panel threatened to take up its option to apply to the courts for an order under the 1985 Companies Act , which might have forced the company directors to pay for the production of revised accounts themselves . |
| 25 | It seems a sponsor to pay for the trip could n't be found . |
| 26 | I think she undoubtedly added to the intrigue erm and difficulties of her court , erm one example , she was always getting people that she approved of , getting them plum jobs , and one example was one of the governors of Oxford , the most unpopular , one Sir Arthur Aston , who was so unpopular that he got attacked on the street , and then had to have a body guard paid for the city council , and then was curvetting on his horse in front of some ladies , and fell off and broke his leg so badly that he had to have it amputated , so from then on he had a wooden leg , erm that meant he had to stop being governor , and later on in the war , a countryman was coming into Oxford , and asked the sentinel ‘ who was governor still ’ , and by that time a friend of prince Rupert 's Sir William Leg was governor , and the answer was ‘ one Leg ’ , and the countryman 's reply was ‘ pox on him , is he governor still ? ’ . |
| 27 | Out of sixteen instances , four were shopkeepers , one a hotel proprietor , one in insurance , and four were farmers ; and nearly all provided either houses — in one case paying for the maids , coal , and gas as well — or land . |
| 28 | Particularly the prosperous merchants and bankers , whose taxes paid for the police . |
| 29 | Newman paid for the drink . |
| 30 | The heavy hand of a resident father would probably not have stopped him being suspended from school three times , once for smoking , once for swearing and once for self-confessed vandalism ( breaking a rival basketball team 's scoreboard because they played dirty , for which he took a part-time job to pay for the damage ) . |