Example sentences of "pay [adv prt] the [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People are still paying off the debt they ran up when they borrowed on the back of roaring house prices in the eighties . |
| 2 | Do not take it for granted that Accounts will be paying up the way you want or that suppliers will stay with you if they do n't get paid on time . |
| 3 | John of Marmoutier tells the legend that Geoffrey le Bel dressed up as a rustic and listened to complaints about his prévôts ’ rapacity ; on his return to court , he paid back the sums they had extorted , and threatened them with death if they continued to defraud the peasantry . |
| 4 | Money was a problem because I 'd spent all the dosh I 'd got for the car , and I needed my grant to pay off the overdraft I 'd built up . |
| 5 | And to pay off the mortgage they 've got to charge so much |
| 6 | ‘ Which is why he was looking for you — although how on earth he expected to persuade you to pay up the difference I do n't know ! ’ |
| 7 | This can be used to pay back the capital you borrow now . |
| 8 | She spends the next ten years taking in washing , slaving away to pay back the money they borrowed to replace it . |
| 9 | He says he 's taken up running ; he says he 's given up smoking ; he says he 's planning to pay back the money I lent him . |
| 10 | The tent might blow away , I might get bitten by a snake , or I might not be able to pay back the £1,500 I had borrowed to finance the trip . |