Example sentences of "[adv] pay a [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has already paid a brief visit to Middlesbrough and Hull and has been briefed in general terms on the hopes and needs of our diocese . |
| 2 | Family and friends yesterday paid a poignant tribute to the two at the murder scene . |
| 3 | TOURISM officials yesterday paid a morale-boosting visit to hoteliers in flood-hit Llandudno yesterday and pledged that they would play their part in helping the town 's recovery . |
| 4 | The Minister also paid a private visit to thirty year old Nesad Chowchavich , a Bosnian policeman who 's paralysed after being injured in a grenade attack . |
| 5 | Hopes were raised on June 28 when French President François Mitterrand , immediately after the EC summit in Lisbon [ see pp. 38942-43 ] , unexpectedly paid a six-hour visit to Sarajevo , where he met Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic and Radovan Karadzic , leader of the Bosnian Serbian Democratic Party ( SDS ) . |
| 6 | Before going to the box I therefore paid a short visit to the Tote and was in the process of staking the Sassoon mount when Wigg appeared on the horizon . |