Example sentences of "paid for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the dead person has paid for a grave space in the churchyard , there will be a document called a ‘ faculty ’ in existence , and you will need to produce this . |
| 2 | AN EARLY Picasso painting , which most of the authoritative books on the artist recorded as lost or destroyed , is to be sold in Paris on 30 November and is likely to fetch one of the highest prices paid for a picture at auction . |
| 3 | That notoriety explains why Simon & Schuster paid $275,000 for the translation rights , the highest sum ever paid for a Japanese book . |
| 4 | A bribe of many millions of dollars was to be paid for a hostage , Peter Kilburn , by giving the captors a suitcase full of chemically treated bills ; after a few days , the bills would moulder away . |
| 5 | And £100 was paid for a like concession for the wapentake of Anstey in Yorkshire . |
| 6 | The field of Old Master and modern drawings has been much less hyped than other markets and rarely sees fireworks like the world record of £4.18 million paid for a Van Gogh drawing in December 1990 . |
| 7 | The FT was moving premises and sold the building to a Japanese Corporation for £143 million — the highest price ever paid for a City site . |
| 8 | I had invited any of the hospital staff who had cared to come , and my ‘ Dawes Road ’ friend Miss Dorrie Pierce told me that church folk had organized a little wedding tea , and my husband-to-be had ordered and paid for a wedding cake . |
| 9 | ESA has already paid for a launch on Ariane , but it can transfer this money to cover the launch of the Giotto mission to Halley 's comet in 1985 . |
| 10 | It was the year before war broke out in 1939 and a small sum was paid for a quarter 's lessons , thirteen in all , I think , but I did miss one or two . |
| 11 | He had heard that forty pounds a year had been paid for a girl to be looked after in the asylum of Dr Perfect in West Malling . |
| 12 | What 's the most you 've ever paid for a fish ? £90 |
| 13 | What 's the most you 've ever paid for a fish ? £50 for a fancy goldfish . |
| 14 | Malc 's Mom held a small reception for us , doing the catering herself ( potted meat sandwiches with the crusts cut off ) and paid for a four-day honeymoon in Blackpool , where the landlady would sell us contraceptives — I was n't showing , and pride forced us to put on an act — but said we were too young to smoke and refused us cigarettes . |
| 15 | In particular it has paid for a text telephone — or ‘ minicom ’ — for the delivery suite . |
| 16 | Earl Eubank , 32 , paid for a champagne lifestyle by dealing in crack . |
| 17 | The price paid for a warrant can be thought of as part of the subscription price for a share which may ( or may not ) be issued at a future date . |
| 18 | ‘ Paid for a week . |
| 19 | THE predicted overspend on the new British Library would have paid for a £1 million public library for every UK local authority , leaving over £100 million for an extension to the British Museum Reading Room with a new underground storage area — which was what everyone wanted in the first place . |
| 20 | On this occasion the Duke of Bedford , who had paid for a statue of Bunyan to be erected in the town , recollected how Pilgrim 's Progress had been the first book given to him as a child . |
| 21 | What 's the most you 've ever paid for a fish ? 32p |
| 22 | As ever , the continuing disposal of Zeppelin material was a highlight , over £3,000 being paid for a Hindenberg coffee cup and saucer ! |
| 23 | The last straw was the court revelation that Mona Bauwens , the daughter of a PLO official , paid for a luxury holiday for Mellor and his family . |
| 24 | The Mirror revealed last week that tax-payers paid for a luxury £3,000 bath installed in Diana 's private apartments at Kensington Palace . |
| 25 | Hundreds of trippers who had paid for a front-row seat in a grandstand overlooking the departing flotilla left in anger when they were told the scaffolding viewpoint was potentially unsafe and would not be used . |
| 26 | Travel expenses were paid for a maximum of three months . |
| 27 | Storage costs are paid for a maximum period of 12 months in local authorities , six months at Nabisco and three months at Pilkingtons . |
| 28 | What 's the most you 've ever paid for a fish ? |
| 29 | Why would a maker fit DR-DOS , when it had already paid for a copy of a Microsoft system ? |
| 30 | On the one hand , the size of the guarantee which must be paid for a famous player 's name and , on the other , how much support the player would give to the company . |