Example sentences of "pay him [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He started living lavishly and tried to extort more and more money from the government who were paying him a tax-free pension of $1,050 a month . |
| 2 | In that year it was ‘ commonly reported by the commoners … that Mr Cromwell of Ely had undertaken , they paying him a groat for every cow they had upon the common , to hold the drainers in suit for five years ’ . |
| 3 | He told her he missed her and his family , and that the prince his brother would shortly be paying him a visit . |
| 4 | But Warren is prepared to meet Hodkinson halfway by paying him a further £25,000 — provided he beats McMillan but he will have to offer the WBO champion the same . |
| 5 | I 've been paying him a little visit . ’ |
| 6 | To bring a level of order and modesty to Fleck 's life Norwich took the unprecedented step of paying him an allowance of only £29 per week and preserving the remainder of his salary to pay off the debts . |
| 7 | Heavily in debt , following the failure of his appeal to the King 's Bench , he had to be rescued by his friends , Western and Samuel Whitbread [ q.v. ] , the latter paying him an annuity of £1,000 . |
| 8 | If luck was kind to Alan Rough it also paid him a monstrous disservice . |
| 9 | I paid him a tribute , saying , ‘ He 's the godfather of British sprinting . |
| 10 | At that point the creditor could still refuse to have the man released from prison and insist of his being kept there , so long as he paid him a groat a day . |
| 11 | It is startling to read that his father paid him a visit in hospital , though presumably without knowing his son was being treated for gonorrhoea . |
| 12 | A museum paid him a four-figure sum for it . |
| 13 | Leonard Smithers paid him a salary for producing translations . |
| 14 | The Khmer Rouge paid him no wages , but sometimes the porters carrying rice and ammunition supplies from the Thai border would also bring cigarettes and rice wine . |
| 15 | Smallfry paid him no attention . |
| 16 | Fiver paid him no heed but looked from one to another among the rabbits . |
| 17 | But Peskova paid him no attention . |
| 18 | The Trees paid him no heed . |
| 19 | Or , if it did , it paid him no heed . |
| 20 | He called at the dogs , but they paid him no attention . |
| 21 | They paid him no attention . |
| 22 | Normally they paid him no attention between performances . |
| 23 | The club paid him the princely sum of £8 , a fee that has not risen much over the years according to some of Celtic 's more dour stars . |
| 24 | ‘ He was up against international defenders and they paid him the ultimate compliment of having to trip him up half of the time . |
| 25 | ‘ We paid him the other day . |
| 26 | And erm , it wa , at the reception afterwards we actually paid him the fine er , a contribution to a a , a fund his church had for a painting they wanted to buy . |
| 27 | Alighting hesitantly , she cast anxious eyes around her , wondering just where her hotel was , as she paid him the exact amount on the meter , feeling strangely guilty as she refrained from adding a tip in accordance with the multi-lingual notice in the cab . |
| 28 | Well I suppose I 'm sure Adrian wo n't mind if I paid him the day after or a week after or something . |
| 29 | TEST audiences hated the ending to comic Eddie Murphy 's latest movie , so Disney Pictures paid him an extra £500,000 to shoot another . |
| 30 | In the same way I was unable to do much else but grin and bear it when my then assistant chief constable ( crime ) , Ken Oxford ( later to be the chief constable of Merseyside ) implicitly restated police concepts of correct bodily order , when he jokingly told a group of visiting journalists who had come to do a story on this wayward group of detectives , ‘ we pay him a plain clothes allowance you know ’ . |