Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] to pay for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 1897 the Royal Navy conducted a punitive expedition against Benin ( in what is now Nigeria ) and brought back to Britain a large number of bronze castings which were sold to pay for the raid . |
| 2 | For the peasantry , the terms of Emancipation , under which they were compelled to pay for the land , were a bitter disappointment . |
| 3 | In the name of self-help , the Masai were asked to pay for the waterworks by selling cattle . |
| 4 | Shell manufacture in Blundell Street car shed during the First World War : 200,000 shells were produced here , largely by female labour , yielding a profit to the Town of £16,000 , which was used to pay for the erection of the Cenotaph war memorial on Princess Parade . |
| 5 | And so , if it came to that , would George , whose only worry when the tree toppled was who was going to pay for the damage . |
| 6 | I asked who was going to pay for the call . |
| 7 | When the respondent returned he was challenged but insisted that he was going to pay for the goods . |
| 8 | He was challenged by the warehouseman but he assured him that he was going to pay for the goods . |
| 9 | When he was challenged by the warehouseman , he assured him that he was going to pay for the goods . |