Example sentences of "[verb] to pay [pers pn] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , you will be expected to pay her a fee , as weddings do provide part of the local church organist 's salary . |
| 2 | The defendants wrote to him and told him that they had decided to pay him a pension of £200 a year and that he was at liberty to enter into any other employment or enter any business , ‘ except in the wool trade . ’ |
| 3 | It seemed the letter writer had decided to pay him a visit . |
| 4 | I 'm going to pay them a visit . ’ |
| 5 | The problem is that with the advent of the ‘ promo ’ clip and the likes of MTV producing vast amounts of programming built around it , pop programming has become synonymous with music video , and no-one is going to pay you a lot of money for that , even if your programme ( like ours ) originates its own material . |
| 6 | The agency have agreed to pay me a retainer for a couple of weeks while I think about what I 'd like to do next . ’ |
| 7 | He started telling me that I was an emotional cretin and to improve I 'd have to pay them a load of money to get into their reading room — at £10 an hour . |
| 8 | ‘ Do we have to pay them a lot of money ? ’ |
| 9 | " You wo n't have to pay them a penny . |
| 10 | I 'll only have to pay him a dollar and the cartage , and there 'll be enough to cover the rest of the yard . |
| 11 | then they 'll have to pay you a bit more money , yo you know , to come back like that and say well yeah I do n't |
| 12 | In case Chambers should catch this new form of laughing sickness Nora decided to pay him a visit . |
| 13 | The Long Island-based company D'Addario are one of the big manufacturers ( not one that makes strings for other people , incidentally ) and in the interests of shedding a hard journalistic light on a somewhat murky area we decided to pay them a visit . |
| 14 | I decided to pay them a visit . |
| 15 | ‘ And so you decided to pay us a visit . ’ |
| 16 | Most of the times living in Soweto , I have police coming to pay me a visit , which they usually call ’ routine ’ checks . |
| 17 | The plaintiff instructed the defendants , a firm of estate agents , to sell his house and agreed to pay them a percentage of the selling price as commission . |
| 18 | I think I could afford to pay you a rhinu a day . ’ |
| 19 | They went as far as offering to pay him a retainer on top of his rep salary for two years . |