Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] pay the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had to pay the new increase ! |
| 2 | We have no choice ; when my father died in nineteen seventy-nine I had to come to an arrangement with the Capital Taxes Office , that , er for not paying the full value of the er death duties on the value of the contents of the house , I had to open it to the public , quite frankly , if then and even more now , if I had to pay the full amount , I 'd have had to sell everything which my family have collected over the last seven hundred years . |
| 3 | As well as being a mate of Yeti 's at school we worked together at Whiteleys , the department store in Queensway , on Thursday evenings after school and all day Saturday — for which we got paid the grand total of 36 shillings or £1.80 today . |
| 4 | Bargain-hunters flocked to the stores , believing they were getting a good deal only to find they had paid the normal price or , in some cases , more . |
| 5 | When Model returned with his wife and children , Constable Bedford asked them if they wished to pay the fixed penalty immediately . |
| 6 | We issued a summons and he failed to pay the full sum on time . ’ |
| 7 | My husband did not have enough marks to pay the bill , so he offered to pay the equivalent amount in Sterling . |