Example sentences of "pay for the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He payed for the education of children from the families who could n't afford it , and the ablest of the children he sent to university . |
| 2 | He was outstanding in charity and compassion , paying for the release of prisoners who were detained for debts and succouring families in time of need , but giving strict charge that they should not acknowledge the source of this help . |
| 3 | Okay , ninety , ninety-five per cent of the premium is actually paying for the level of cover . |
| 4 | Salon perms are expensive because you are paying for the expertise of the technician and their time — an average perm takes approx. two hours for short to mid-length hair , more if hair is longer . |
| 5 | At the coal face , the butties were responsible for the actual mining processes , overseen by colliery company officials ; the butties were in charge of organizing and paying for the winning of coal , though not in all cases for its transport to the pithead . |
| 6 | ‘ Perhaps now you can appreciate my dilemma — about paying for the damage to your car ? ’ |
| 7 | In Lesotho , the US Agency for International Development is paying for the installation of Robbins & Myers pumps , made in the US . |
| 8 | This did not prevent him paying for the installation of a swimming pool to amuse his children who roamed around their new domain during the holidays . |
| 9 | Had she driven poor Tina away by hesitating about paying for the installation of a bathroom ? |
| 10 | Brenninkmeyer , together with funding from the federal government and the Land , are paying for the work to be done before the treasures go back on display in Quedlinburg next summer . |
| 11 | and doing that you 're paying for the opportunity of having erm other services |
| 12 | In addition , any covenant requiring the tenant to appeal against a refusal of planning permission ( particularly at the cost of the tenant ) should be resisted as the tenant could find itself paying for the cost of the landlord appealing against a refusal of planning permission for the redevelopment of the premises at the end of term , where the tenant may wish to take a renewal of the lease . |
| 13 | Besides , I 'm paying for the betrayal by telling them about the body . |
| 14 | Many cities run the trees through chippers , paying for the operation by selling the mulch or using it in public parks . |
| 15 | They were introduced in the seventeenth century as a method of paying for the upkeep of highways when other methods had failed . |
| 16 | Farmers have the extra cost of paying for the upkeep of many drainage ditches to control flooding . |
| 17 | Russia took 75 per cent ; Moldova and Ukraine would finance in full the troops on their territories and participate in financing joint forces through absolute contributions ; Tajikistan , Kirgizstan and Turkmenistan were not paying for the upkeep of troops on their territory . |
| 18 | It also has the dubious privilege of paying for the administration of the board . |
| 19 | UB is paying for the acquisition by the issue of £9 million-worth of shares , with the balance in cash . |
| 20 | With a statutory duty to promote standardisation , the nationalised Boards were willing to go ahead with these schemes , paying for the conversion of consumers ' apparatus as well as of their own mains , even where the returns to themselves were not adequate . |
| 21 | The National Gallery is paying for the conservation of the painting . |
| 22 | This represents a notional calculation of the benefit gained by living in one 's own house or , in other words , the rent which one would consider paying for the use of the house . |
| 23 | But then you 're paying for the use of the boat as well are n't you ? |
| 24 | We paid for the holiday with just with change out of our pocket |
| 25 | During 1484 he and his fellow goldsmith Thomas Wood paid for the insertion of a bay window bearing their arms in the eastern wall of the Hall . |
| 26 | With her literary earnings she paid for the education of a young sister , who became her amanuensis and moved to Edinburgh with her in 1847 . |
| 27 | Then , just out of curiosity , who paid for the hotel in Dublin ? |
| 28 | ‘ I paid for the rent for the villa , which I arranged myself with a Belgian count who owned it , and also paid the air fares for all the Mellors , ’ she said . |
| 29 | I do n't think you know who shot Jay Hammond , but I 'm sure you know who paid for the job to be done . |
| 30 | On the other hand the person in the street appears doomed to see ever more of the countryside becoming inaccessible , pay higher food prices , and through higher taxes pay for the storage of grain mountains , beef mountains , wine lakes and so on . |