Example sentences of "we pay for " in BNC.
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| 1 | p.p.s have I got the figures about right for how much we payed for players — Beeney ( .35m ) , Kelly ( 0 ) , Dorigo ( 1.3 ) , Fairclough ( .6 ) , Wetherall ( .15 ) , Strach ( .3 ) , Speed ( 0 ) , Macca ( 1.3 ) , White ( 1.25 — this is the one I 'm most unsure of ) , Wallace ( 1.6 ) and Deane ( 2.9 ) ? |
| 2 | Perhaps it was after all impossibly naive and idealistic to expect that frontiers would cease to be watched , but just what price are we paying for the security effected by border controls ? |
| 3 | Q : We paid for our holiday in Paphos , Cyprus , in January , but 36 hours before we were due to leave our tour operator , Saga Holidays , rang to tell us the Roman Hotel in Paphos was double-booked and to offer us the first week at another hotel which was , in our opinion , inferior . |
| 4 | That was very unprofessional and we paid for it . ’ |
| 5 | But the money with which we paid for the house — and with which she bought her nylons and expensive corsets — came from scrap metal : though her father never spoke to her again after she left her first husband , she was his only child and he died intestate . |
| 6 | Pub landlord Nigel Moxham said : ‘ We only realised after the race that Gaby had been saved by the boat we paid for . ’ |
| 7 | We paid for this with great sacrifices , and we will never leave . |
| 8 | We are getting what we paid for and all is right with the world . |
| 9 | Put the carpets , put everything in and er and we paid for it and they still go ad now course the national union 's taken it over but when we joined the national union there were two things that er I stipulated before we 'd join . |
| 10 | But we have all endured the archetypal house price bore — ‘ You wo n't believe what we paid for our house in Normandy … ’ . |
| 11 | We paid for tea , but the money went to the Red Cross . |
| 12 | It also , in those days was mileage for the tyres was paid on the number of miles run per tyre , so at the end of the month you could record , you knew what tyres were on a certain bus , you knew of how many miles that bus had done , so you recorded that particular tyre on that bus had run so many miles and it was that that we paid for our tyres that way . |
| 13 | We paid for our ‘ tenancy ’ by cleaning and tidying the kitchen , gardening , clearing out the gutters etc . |
| 14 | the coach to the breeders ' evening that 's what I mentioned before , we paid for the refreshments and the rent show secretary has only claimed two pounds which is a scandal really she 's probably paid twenty out , twenty pounds |
| 15 | We paid for it ourselves , but covered expenses by cutting soul-destroying administrative jobs which only involved keying in names . ’ |
| 16 | We paid for the holiday with just with change out of our pocket |
| 17 | We paid for all these dodgy old ladies |
| 18 | And then we paid for a winter clean . |
| 19 | And he refuses to recognise that high interest rates are the price we pay for that deficit . ’ |
| 20 | But what sticks in the mind is how easily the City was able to use the self-regulatory nature of the investor protection system — ‘ we pay for it , so get him off our backs ’ — to twist the arm of the government . |
| 21 | After all , we pay for piped , chlorinated water , why not for cleaned-up air ? |
| 22 | Collecting waste is the responsibility of Local Councils and we pay for this through our taxes . |
| 23 | THE PRICE WE PAY FOR DETERRENCE |
| 24 | If dross is the price we pay for freedom of expression , there is nevertheless a point at which such dross may become pernicious . |
| 25 | We pay for that beauty as well as functionality in most goods . |
| 26 | Serious worries about this disappearing vital resource herald big changes in the way we pay for water supplies . |
| 27 | We pay for this however in the vulnerability of wood to moisture . |
| 28 | ‘ The government does it with poll tax bills , letting us know how much we pay for those who wo n't , so why not extend it ? |
| 29 | Yet even so , the dispensary was busy every day , and we did have a great deal of work , dealing with the humdrum , everyday ailments — yaws , measles , ‘ flu and accidents — accepted by the Polynesians with a philosophical resignation , as though they were saying , ‘ This is the price we pay for living in paradise . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Never get a fine week like we just had , ’ agreed his neighbour , ‘ but we pay for it . |