Example sentences of "he pay for [pron] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 But — oh , Ellie , there was such a to-do last time , Phena carrying on as though she were the only person in the world who had been lied to , and I know it was hard for her , and Feargal would have given her all this without a blink , but she wanted to play the martyr , and now makes him pay for it in oh , so many little ways . ’
2 You know he paid for it to be
3 And he paid for it with his life ( 31:8 ) .
4 She passed on to our agent the name Raphael , though he paid for it with his life .
5 Shortly after this he paid for it by cheque and on request signed a statement that property in the van was not to pass to him until the cheque was cleared .
6 He was forced to sell his Thames-side mansion at Bray , Berkshire , for £1.5million — £700,000 less than he paid for it in 1988 .
7 The priest finally concludes that the sheepskin is properly his , as he paid for it in goods not services .
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