Example sentences of "[pers pn] paid for the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | So I paid for the electric motor of the engine to be serviced , but it never worked very well . |
2 | Anyway , I paid for the blessed thing . ’ |
3 | But in so doing , they ignored a continuing problem ; and they created a new one , for the price they paid for the French troops who solved the English military problem was a monarch who was taught to be French and Catholic , and who would return to her country only when both these things clashed with the prevailing balance of power in Scotland . |
4 | Wanting to keep their plans secret , and convinced that ‘ no one would fund such a crazy idea ’ , they paid for the initial experiments out of their own pockets . |
5 | It paid for the entire holiday . |