Example sentences of "pay [adv] [n mass] for the " in BNC.

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1 NatWest paid around £355,000 for the freehold to Pearl Assurance , and for its money it has a building with a ground floor of 1,952 sq ft plus first floor offices of 1,749 sq ft .
2 ‘ We paid almost £9,000 for the car but we will be lucky to get £4,000 for it , ’ said Mr Lewis who believes the teenager should at least have been made to do community work .
3 Of particular interest will be the information that : 1 ) Michael Smurfit subscribed for £500,000 ( and not £100,000 as reported elsewhere ) shares in UPH , the company that first acquired the site from the liquidator ; 2 ) Larry Goodman is also a shareholder in UPH through Paribas ; 3 ) John Finnegan , the principal in Finnegan Menton , was an advisory in the original sale to UPH ( at £4.4m ) and to Telecom ( at £9.4m ) only 17 months later ; 4 ) The site had been offered to other property developers by Finnegan Menton at £2.7m in 1988 ; 5 ) The sale to the so-called European consortium , i.e. Noel Smyth 's friends , ( at £6.75m ) was only fully concluded days before Telecom paid over £9.4m for the same site ; 6 ) The bank behind the Smyth/Doherty consortium in Ansbacher Bank .
4 They pay around £30 for the first jump , including membership of a club , but the cost decreases as they make more and more jumps .
5 The City reckons Gas will pay out 14.2p for the whole of 1992 compared to 13.4p last year .
6 LEEDS fans will be able to watch their team 's European Cup play-off against Stuttgart on Friday live on ITV , who will pay around £200,000 for the rights .
7 The President Group of Taipei , Taiwan has effectively paid about $150m for the Wang Laboratories Inc operations in Taiwan .
8 The President Group of Taipei , Taiwan has effectively paid about $150m for the Wang Laboratories Inc operations in Taiwan .
9 SAP has paid around $2m for the stake in iXOS , which produces graphical user interface software and already provides SAP with document imaging technology .
10 SAP has paid around $2m for the stake in iXOS , which produces graphical user interface software and already provides SAP with document imaging technology .
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