Example sentences of "been paying [prep] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 In some sense Angela may have been paying for the assets — they had assets valued at £600,000 then , most of it in the lease on the building .
2 I 've discovered who has been paying for my education .
3 If Ebert had been paying for Axel 's debauchery , the chances were that he was behind the death of the girl .
4 The , the direct debits that you 've been paying for years but you 're not sure where they go to , that sort of thing ?
5 By the end of the " thirties , Aunt Tossie wondered for how many years she had been paying for interesting yearlings , and with very uninteresting results .
6 Gloucestershire clothiers in 1756 " laid the chain four or five yards longer on the bar " and stopped altogether an allowance of two shillings the price which they had been paying for " stopping " ( repairing ) the cloth .
7 It was revealed in August that Wiltshire Social Services have been paying for him to stay at his grandparents ' house on the Costa Blanca .
8 A council that 's been paying for a fourteen-year-old criminal to stay in Spain has been criticised in court .
9 I 've been paying for me petrol with me money me family allowance .
10 The experts say that for a woman over about 40 , SERPS is definitely going to be better , and if she has been paying into a contracted out PP scheme up to that time , she should change over then .
11 For the widow of a younger man or of one who has not been paying into a personal pension scheme for very long , this could be a very small amount — perhaps only a few hundred pounds a year .
12 Al-Kadir , the timid and vacillating ruler of Valencia , capitulated without delay , restoring the tribute he had been paying to El Cid before his second banishment .
  Next page