Example sentences of "[pers pn] pay [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I paid for the first of March so I 've lost li literally fourteen days have n't |
| 2 | So I paid for the electric motor of the engine to be serviced , but it never worked very well . |
| 3 | Anyway , I paid for the blessed thing . ’ |
| 4 | Would you mind desperately if just this once I paid at the other end ? ’ |
| 5 | And all you 'll get back is the £1.70 you paid on the first and second instalments . |
| 6 | The profits grew and the bank manager began to smile at Carrie whenever she paid in the weekly takings . |
| 7 | How much you pay for the eurocheque service depends on the number of cheques you issue , but there is an annual fee of £5 for your eurocheque card . |
| 8 | When you 're trying to custom fit each solo to the mood of the track , how much attention do you pay to the lyrical topic that Dave Mustaine is addressing , and his approach to it emotionally ? |
| 9 | How do you pay for the electrical energy that you use ? |
| 10 | How much extra would it cost you to pay for the free pair of tights ? |
| 11 | To the cost to Britain of membership of the EEC on her trade account must be added what she pays for the Common Agricultural Policy ( CAP ) . |
| 12 | Perhaps what told him was the attention they paid to the drunk man who weaved his way , shouting and stumbling , down the car . |
| 13 | But in so doing , they ignored a continuing problem ; and they created a new one , for the price they paid for the French troops who solved the English military problem was a monarch who was taught to be French and Catholic , and who would return to her country only when both these things clashed with the prevailing balance of power in Scotland . |
| 14 | Wanting to keep their plans secret , and convinced that ‘ no one would fund such a crazy idea ’ , they paid for the initial experiments out of their own pockets . |
| 15 | Under the Government 's proposals , taxpayers in Barnet will pay a lower tax than they paid under the discredited rating system which the Government abolished and they will pay less than they would under the Labour party 's proposals . |
| 16 | It paid for the entire holiday . |
| 17 | I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for the compliment that he paid to the special branch and to the RUC . |
| 18 | ‘ He paid for the first round out of a fiver and the third with another fiver . |
| 19 | He pays for the additional units but he values them at only . |