Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] to pay [prep] [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 | The same meeting also approved the Conveyances of the land from the Bolney Estate Company and Mr K.K. McKenzie , and the Trustees were authorised to pay over the sums of £3,000 and £1,000 respectively ( this is several weeks after part of the course had been opened for play ! ) , and Mr J. C. Walker , the Treasurer , was asked to draw up some proposals for the Club 's bye-laws . |
| 5 | In the name of self-help , the Masai were asked to pay for the waterworks by selling cattle . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Hence between 300 and 600 Taka were required to pay for the full treatment . |
| 8 | The rest of the money was used to pay for a dinner at the Crescent Hotel . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I asked who was going to pay for the call . |
| 11 | When the respondent returned he was challenged but insisted that he was going to pay for the goods . |
| 12 | He was challenged by the warehouseman but he assured him that he was going to pay for the goods . |
| 13 | When he was challenged by the warehouseman , he assured him that he was going to pay for the goods . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The jury awarded him the libel raspberry — a halfpenny — so he was forced to pay for the whole action . |
| 16 | They refused to open the gate , and became aggressive , so I was forced to pay for the extra hours parking . |