Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] pay a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had gone along once to pay a casual visit and found one of Nenna 's youngsters , the little one , cooking some kind of mess for him in Dreadnought 's galley . |
| 2 | When Bilqis , Queen of Sheba , travelled from her domain in southern Arabia to visit King Solomon , it was not just to pay a social call . |
| 3 | He was used to advertise Players ' cigarettes but was not even paid a proper fee . |
| 4 | Lisa did vaguely remember , now that Kerry mentioned it , but she 'd been so absorbed in what she was doing at the time that she had n't really paid a great deal of attention . |
| 5 | At one stage , I could n't even pay a medical bill for one of the children . |
| 6 | And the wife of the congregational minister fared no better when she explained that " owing to falling church membership " , the church no longer paid a living wage . |
| 7 | The aim behind the sections is to prevent the settlor alienating income to the trustees , and therefore perhaps paying a lower rate of income tax than he would otherwise pay , when at the end of the day he might be able to get the accumulated income back . |