Example sentences of "paid a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the 1960 Annual Report said : ‘ If even half these ( seventy-two thousand ) set owners had paid a licence fee , the TBC 's financial position would have caused the Board less anxiety ’ . |
| 2 | Staff are paid a salary at the rate equivalent to that of a unionised factory worker — in practice that is approximately equivalent to that of a High School teacher . |
| 3 | Daily operation was usually carried out by a miller who , like a number of other employees , was actually paid a salary and granted a number of other privileges . |
| 4 | The rest of the time the students , who were paid a salary , were deployed to teach in schools throughout the country , with the back-up of distance learning materials and periodic supervisory visits from National Centre staff . |
| 5 | We had to buy one ; it certainly was n't given and do n't forget we had n't been paid a salary while travelling . |
| 6 | In most districts only a few high-ranking headmen were paid a salary . |
| 7 | ‘ Basically I 'm paid a salary and given complete control over training his horses . |
| 8 | The educational needs of the inmates were not overlooked , and Mr. T. Eagles was paid a salary of £3.5s. ‘ for teaching the children to sing ’ ( presumably at services in the chapel ) . |
| 9 | A salt watchman was paid a salary of £15 per annum , while a tidesman was paid £20 , so on the face of it Main seemed to have little cause for complaint . |
| 10 | In the post-1948 NHS the consultant was paid a salary and could pick and choose patients from his or her waiting list . |
| 11 | In view of Vane 's other commitments , Hutchinson must have had practical charge of parliamentarian naval finance , although it would seem that he was only paid a salary out of the treasurer 's profits . |
| 12 | we 're hoping to get tax cut for tall people in Germany — things are more expensive if you 're tall , but you 're not paid a salary proportionate to your size ! |
| 13 | So you could have paid a company five hundred , six hundred pounds , and have no surrender value whatsoever , in the first two years , cos they 'll take their charges out on a twenty year , a twenty five year contract . |
| 14 | He approached the cash till with the supreme confidence of a man who has paid a cheque into his account more than the requisite three working days in advance . |
| 15 | That was the year the city 's deputy was found beaten to death , in a village near Riba ; the landlords had paid a gang to kill him , just as they did in the old days , before Davide left for America . |
| 16 | Downstairs , the piano had started up ( the new cottage upright , a Schiedmayer and Soehne 's , seven-octave , in walnut , that Dad had paid a whole thirty-five pounds for at Ramsden 's ) . |
| 17 | They used to get erm these people on the Election Panel used to be paid a couple of guineas a time for their lectures |
| 18 | When the archers arrive on the field for the meeting , they first sign the record book to say they are going to take part and then pay the balance of the cost of the meeting , having already paid a deposit . |
| 19 | You should also ask clients whether they have paid a deposit to the estate agent . |
| 20 | With a price tag of £415,000 , some of those who signed up for the XJ 220 are backing out , despite having paid a deposit of £50,000 . |
| 21 | so , she thinks like they were , they were on show these just for a wardrobe and a set of drawers for a thousand quid , he let her have them for six hundred , so she 's been and paid a deposit on them |
| 22 | Well we were going to buy er a caravan when my wa er just , just before my husband died we were sort of looking for a caravan , we had gone and paid a deposit , we should have picked it up on a Saturday and he go , he died on a Friday , so I had to cancel and er only this week er I told you did n't I , that they paid my deposit back because it was genuine tragedy , I , I did n't sort of er made it up that I , you know , sometimes you 've paid a deposit and then you 've changed your mind |
| 23 | Well we were going to buy er a caravan when my wa er just , just before my husband died we were sort of looking for a caravan , we had gone and paid a deposit , we should have picked it up on a Saturday and he go , he died on a Friday , so I had to cancel and er only this week er I told you did n't I , that they paid my deposit back because it was genuine tragedy , I , I did n't sort of er made it up that I , you know , sometimes you 've paid a deposit and then you 've changed your mind |
| 24 | Partial topic framework existing in a conversation between K ( 20+ , female , Edinburgh-resident , university student , … ) and J ( 60+ , male , Edinburgh-resident , retired , … ) in P Working Men 's Club , Edinburgh , … ) at T ( early evening , spring , 1976 , … ) mentioning ( J's three children — J ‘ s brothers — the schools they attended — the schools J attended — that J did badly at school — J left school at fourteen ) when K asks J what he did after he left school J : oh I done odd jobs like + paper boy + chemist 's shop worked in a chemist shop + and done two or three others+ and I finally started in the bricklaying + so I served my time as a bricklayer + K : that 's good money J : nowadays it is but in that + when my time was out it wasn't+ it was only three pounds nine a week + so + + K : my father was a stonemason and he started at home + and they were paid a halfpenny an hour extra for being left-handed + + |
| 25 | Community nurses and health visitors are paid a mileage allowance but you will also want to know who pays for what if you should break down or have an accident , and whether you can claim an allowance against income tax for general depreciation . |
| 26 | His mother had drunk too much stout , ‘ gone up the school ’ , and had him transferred from metal work to Latin , from Civic Studies to French ; she had paid a maths coach with the earnings of a paper-round she had sent him out on . |
| 27 | While in Texas , Ice also paid a $516 fine that had been outstanding since he was convicted of assault in 1988 . |
| 28 | I mean , there 's a , I mean , the consequence of a heavy fine , the next thing is they 'll be in prison , cos they have n't paid a fine . |
| 29 | More often than not you get a refund cos of course you have personal allowances for a whole year but you 've not er not er lived a whole year as often as not and therefore there usually spaced over the twelve months and you 've paid a bit too much tax if you 've died in the course of the twelve months . |
| 30 | Even as he thought it , he could n't help remembering that West End stars tended to be paid a bit more than he was getting with his humble understudy-plus-supplement deal . |