Example sentences of "up the bill " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ironically , the hostel was charging so much in rent that while I did have to stay there , I was better off on the dole with the housing people picking up the bill than in cleaning work and having to pay it myself . |
| 2 | ‘ I had hoped that I might be able to find you some accommodation around here , but apparently it 's the duty of your local council in London to rehouse you and nobody else wants to pick up the bill . ’ |
| 3 | When he later took the trouble to add up the bill he discovered that the actual cost was Fr 1,481 , around £140 : an overcharge of £40 . |
| 4 | The contractors are rightly concerned that they should not be forced to pick up the bill for problems which are not of their making . |
| 5 | Adding up the Bill . |
| 6 | Pay-as-you-go means that today s contributors pay for the pension of today 's retired people — on the basis that the next generation will pick up the bill for today 's contributors when they retire . |
| 7 | Everything depended on contributors picking up the bill in ten , twenty or thirty years . |
| 8 | SERPS consists of no more than a promise that future generations will pick up the bill . |
| 9 | ‘ Someone always has to pick up the bill . ’ |
| 10 | If a Thursday coincided with a Saints Day , we were rewarded by being able to go across to Mrs. Robbins ' after the service and order a pennyworth of sweets apiece — the Hospital trustees picking up the bill . |
| 11 | There is a growing , often unstated , anticipation that the private sector will pick up the bill for public services . |
| 12 | But remember — raid your savings now and Santa wo n't pick up the bill . |
| 13 | In other words , limited liability is an incentive for management to play for high stakes and allow the general public to pick up the bill . |
| 14 | HOLLYWOOD heart-throb Tom Cruise picked up the bill for a group of students he saw trying to impress their girlfriends . |
| 15 | But the hotel may well bump up the bill with all sorts of spurious charges . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'd been getting records on tick from Billy for ages , ’ explains Havanna 's Tony Scott , ‘ so I said to him ‘ If I make up a record , would you square up the bill ? ’ |
| 17 | Colt went to the Khan Murjan in the old quarter only when someone else picked up the bill . |
| 18 | ‘ You wo n't be paying for inappropriate placements and you wo n't be picking up the bill for carers later . |
| 19 | But a major difficulty remains : SSDs will be reluctant to commit themselves to picking up the bill for several months ' residential rehabilitation for someone who may have arrived in the area the previous week . |
| 20 | The risk theory , therefore , requires an important value judgment in relation to any particular governmental activity : if that activity inflicts loss on private individuals , should those individuals be expected to bear it or should the government pick up the bill ? |
| 21 | He held onto my suit while she added up the bill ( more than £20,1 could n't help noticing ) , took his money , gave him change , wrapped the flowers and poked them under his arm . |
| 22 | Nor , more modestly , does it provide any reason why the Treasury , responsible for the ultimate public obligation to pick up the bill for public bodies which can not be allowed to default , should exercise a prudential interest in its performance . |
| 23 | The reality has been that our core funding , like that of so many other bodies , has been progressively reduced , by City Hall in our case , and we are constantly threatened with having our funding removed entirely , the premise being that BAT will pick up the bill . |
| 24 | Even if BAT do pick up the bill , as they have for East Belfast Community Council and the Centre for Neighbourhood Development , they can offer only 2 to 3 years project funding or finance for capital projects . |
| 25 | He wrote to McKenna , concerned about the continued obstruction and urging that the Home Office should speed up the bill 's progress . |
| 26 | Edward picked up the bill and examined it . |
| 27 | I think that the compan companies out there have not made any profits for about five years , and they 're desperate to return to er an even keel , and they are going to force up the price of goods and services as soon humanly possible , and we 'll pick up the bill . |
| 28 | Indeed , he was selected to carry up the bill of settlement to the Lords , and in 1702 piloted through Parliament a measure to attaint the pretender . |
| 29 | A Work will begin on drawing up the Bill . |
| 30 | He has also failed to recognise that the Welsh people will have to pick up the bill for his spending policies . |