Example sentences of "[vb pp] pay for a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One calf saved pays for a lot of training , and this is particularly so in the case of a precious bloodline . |
| 2 | Why should n't , why should n't we be made to pay for a health service ? |
| 3 | Now the group has helped pay for a bronze sculpture in memory of the navvies . |
| 4 | Members of Maghull Chapel have already helped pay for a well to be dug to give the village drinking water . |
| 5 | The rest of the money was used to pay for a dinner at the Crescent Hotel . |
| 6 | I 've got to pay for a turn |
| 7 | The business-inclined Whigs believed that victory in Europe would automatically secure our overseas interests : the land-owning Tories , with their traditional dislike of the high taxation needed to pay for a standing army , sought to achieve the same ends with peripheral maritime operations , carried out by the Navy , which could largely pay for themselves by taking other powers ' colonies and trading posts . |
| 8 | William Rathbone [ q.v. ] had offered to pay for a matron and trained nurses for three years , as an experiment , to be supplied by the Nightingale Fund , and Florence Nightingale had nominated Agnes Jones . |
| 9 | This was a major objective of burial societies and other forms of insurance ; irreplaceable possessions were often pawned or sold to pay for a funeral . |
| 10 | Pensioners who have given a lifetime 's service to the nation should not be asked to pay for a T V licence , and those out of work through no fault of their own , except for a government policy . |
| 11 | Troubled Telecom Eireann has abandoned a plan to build a new headquarters in Ballsbridge , Dublin , and the decision may cost the company more than £6m ; it bought the site for £9.4m in 1990 , but it is now worth only around £5m ; the company may also be required to pay for a government investigation into the purchase , which is also under scrutiny from the Fraud Office . |