Example sentences of "[adv] pay [pos pn] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have shown by their tasteless and tactless menace tonight that they are still not prepared to take on board the problems of people who can not pay their poll tax because they do not have sufficient funds . |
| 2 | We could do something tonight by having the Minister announce that magistrates will stop putting in prison people who can not pay their poll tax . |
| 3 | Since 1989 nearly a million summonses have been issued to people who could not pay their water bills . |
| 4 | On 9 June 1993 92,658 Reminders will be issued to those people who did not pay their May instalment . |
| 5 | In England and Wales , people may still be imprisoned if they do not pay their council tax . |
| 6 | Among the many popular items in this Bill is the provision that councillors who will not pay their community charge or their council tax will not in future be entitled to vote on setting a budget for their local authorities — |
| 7 | In a rather different example from the same period , Scottish TV was so short of cash by February 1970 that it could not pay its ITA rental , nor the levy , nor its bills , nor get further credit from the bank . |
| 8 | On this the farm worker is most scathing : fresh air does not pay his electricity bill . |
| 9 | The first time I did not pay his passage money . |
| 10 | You are a foreigner with no settled establishment , you did not pay your hotel bill at Sècheron , and you have a horseless cabriolet that smacks of strange powers ! ’ |
| 11 | The nine-year-old has been a fine servant for trainer David Nicholson and , although a few pounds below the very best over two miles , he picks up enough prize-money each year to comfortably pay his oats bill . |
| 12 | ‘ We could n't possibly pay your travelling expenses though . ’ |
| 13 | We will always pay your travel costs whichever you know whichever er er second of the training course you 're on . |
| 14 | Reed International said it would now pay its 7.25p final as a second interim on 5 April , while TT Group 's 3.6p final becomes a second interim to be paid on 31 March . |
| 15 | They could not afford another campaign : they had run through the treasure inherited from Edward II so quickly that they could not even pay their Hainault mercenaries , and they had to borrow both from the Florentine banking house of Bardi and from English merchants . |
| 16 | It is most disturbing to realize that many of you do not receive any Further Training and some do not even pay their Membership subscription . |
| 17 | He does n't do a damn thing , he does n't even pay his wife wages — I give up ! ’ |
| 18 | I gather there was trouble with the passementerie — she does n't pay her decorating bills |
| 19 | A large aerial had appeared , projected from the roof , an aerial similar to those used by Post Office vans detecting people who did n't pay their TV licence . |
| 20 | Joanna 's got a tumour and another terminal disease and is threatened with repossession and Mr McGinity is in an iron lung and ca n't pay his electricity bill . |
| 21 | After all , I do n't pay my head stallion man the kinda wage he gets for being incompetent . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Clive 's finish was special , the sort you would happily pay your entrance fee to see . ’ |