Example sentences of "we paid for " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | That was very unprofessional and we paid for it . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Pub landlord Nigel Moxham said : ‘ We only realised after the race that Gaby had been saved by the boat we paid for . ’ |
| 5 | We paid for this with great sacrifices , and we will never leave . |
| 6 | We are getting what we paid for and all is right with the world . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But we have all endured the archetypal house price bore — ‘ You wo n't believe what we paid for our house in Normandy … ’ . |
| 9 | We paid for tea , but the money went to the Red Cross . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | We paid for our ‘ tenancy ’ by cleaning and tidying the kitchen , gardening , clearing out the gutters etc . |
| 12 | 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 |
| 13 | We paid for it ourselves , but covered expenses by cutting soul-destroying administrative jobs which only involved keying in names . ’ |
| 14 | We paid for the holiday with just with change out of our pocket |
| 15 | We paid for all these dodgy old ladies |
| 16 | And then we paid for a winter clean . |