Example sentences of "[pron] paid for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was confirmed when Epson quoted £200 for a 2Mb memory module — that 's nearly half the price I paid for the PC ! |
| 2 | I paid for the petrol and the mints , and the young chap said : ‘ It 's Geoffrey Boycott sat in that car , is n't it ? ’ |
| 3 | Calmly I paid for the pod 's berth and walked away , neither too fast nor too slow . |
| 4 | I paid for the taxi because he had no change . |
| 5 | ‘ I paid for the rent for the villa , which I arranged myself with a Belgian count who owned it , and also paid the air fares for all the Mellors , ’ she said . |
| 6 | And I learned to drive — mum and dad paid for my driving lessons and I paid for the driving test . |
| 7 | Guess how much I paid for the Christmas pud ? |
| 8 | ‘ He gave the glass , I paid for the labour . ’ |
| 9 | The Nuffield Foundation ( which paid for the feasibility study ) has given £30 000 and the trustees are advertising for a project director this week . |
| 10 | The project was to be funded for one year with money from the Telethon Trust , which paid for the author 's post , that of development worker , as well as allowing a substantial budget ; the overall aim was to establish a leisure service for disabled people within the Northern Health Region . |
| 11 | In a report to be published shortly , the Office of Scientific Integrity of the National Institutes of Health ( which paid for the research reported in the paper ) concludes that key data for the paper were faked . |
| 12 | With her literary earnings she paid for the education of a young sister , who became her amanuensis and moved to Edinburgh with her in 1847 . |
| 13 | erm and she paid for the holiday , but she has an allergy . |
| 14 | She paid for the Regiment 's presents each Christmas and presented them to the legionnaires . |
| 15 | She paid for the meal . |
| 16 | For example , an investigation into height and weight growth rates was conducted in January 1940 on a group of Manchester children evacuated to Glossop : generally , evacuee children who drank milk regularly grew faster than those who did not , but those who paid for the milk showed faster growth rates than the poorer children who received it free indicating that social class factors were at work . |
| 17 | Conditions of work were not pleasant ; landowners tried to get their estates cultivated by indentured labourers who had come out under a contract to work for some years for the man who paid for the journey or anyone to whom he sold the right to command their services . |
| 18 | Just who paid for the telephone call is in some doubt . |
| 19 | The frequent-flier coupons in practice become the property of the flier , not his employer ( who paid for the ticket ) . |
| 20 | Then , just out of curiosity , who paid for the hotel in Dublin ? |
| 21 | I do n't think you know who shot Jay Hammond , but I 'm sure you know who paid for the job to be done . |
| 22 | And I just said to her , ‘ Fine — because do n't forget who paid for the reception ’ . ’ |
| 23 | We paid for the holiday with just with change out of our pocket |
| 24 | But the money with which we paid for the house — and with which she bought her nylons and expensive corsets — came from scrap metal : though her father never spoke to her again after she left her first husband , she was his only child and he died intestate . |
| 25 | They paid for the holiday out of her redundancy money . |
| 26 | Banks , and eventually borrowers , had the advantage that the rate of interest they paid for the deposit would be slightly less than that on a conventional time deposit . |
| 27 | Yeah It 's funny we 've just cos it paid for the flat . |
| 28 | The yield to the purchaser then depends on the difference between the price he paid for the bill and its redemption value . |
| 29 | The scheme was funded out of general taxation , though an element of payment for the health service remained in the national insurance contribution , creating a confusing illusion that this was what paid for the service . |