Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] pay for [art] " in BNC.

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1 DERBY were made to pay for a sloppy display of defending as Guy Whittingham scored after seven and 50 minutes to take his season 's tally to 29 .
2 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 .
3 For the peasantry , the terms of Emancipation , under which they were compelled to pay for the land , were a bitter disappointment .
4 In the name of self-help , the Masai were asked to pay for the waterworks by selling cattle .
5 Although Muslims in some areas paid cizye , the burden of this tax bore most heavily on the Christians , who were required to pay for every male of twelve years of age on a sliding scale , according to his assessed wealth .
6 Hence between 300 and 600 Taka were required to pay for the full treatment .
7 The rest of the money was used to pay for a dinner at the Crescent Hotel .
8 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 .
9 I asked who was going to pay for the call .
10 When the respondent returned he was challenged but insisted that he was going to pay for the goods .
11 He was challenged by the warehouseman but he assured him that he was going to pay for the goods .
12 When he was challenged by the warehouseman , he assured him that he was going to pay for the goods .
13 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 .
14 The jury awarded him the libel raspberry — a halfpenny — so he was forced to pay for the whole action .
15 They refused to open the gate , and became aggressive , so I was forced to pay for the extra hours parking .
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