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

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1 One of the fellows was paying for the éclair anyway .
2 The scheme could help to curb traffic on Hong Kong 's crowded roads as well as distributing the cost of paying for the roads more fairly .
3 Mm , paying for the wrapping though
4 They paid for the holiday out of her redundancy money .
5 The area close to the pond was owned by county councillor Peter Constable Maxwell and the Maxwell Family Trust , but the family generously not only made the land available at no charge , but also paid for the landscaping closest to the pond .
6 Then they take the basket to one of the checkout points and pay for the goods there .
7 you pay for the privilege then do n't you ?
8 So the emphasis now is more on the people themselves , basically Neighbourhood Watch is your scheme , it 's not a police thing , we support it , we pay for the hall tonight , we pay for the signs for the street and we give you all the literature free , but it is your scheme and it 's how you want it to be .
9 I thought ooh that 's nice to hear , we pay for the area up there then do we !
10 Who will pay for the crossover still in use by the Stanlow tanks each week to be moved so that locos can still be run round trains ?
11 Let them pay for the kebabs anyway .
12 With this view , if the 80 year old or the 40 year old can pay for the surgery then it is offered .
13 ‘ They can pay for the lorries out of that . ’
14 With Chosen Heritage you can pay for the funeral now at today 's prices then stop worrying about the increasing costs . ’
15 Usually it is up to the ratepayers in the area to pay for the clean-up afterwards .
16 Father had , apparently , told her she was ‘ too stupid ’ to take a degree in maths , told her she could n't do a joint degree in physics and German because he could n't afford to pay for the year out , and had influenced her to apply for A university because that was where he had taken his degree .
17 It may be thought that this was a remarkably small price to pay for the opening up of our democratic processes to the public .
18 Rachel cheers me up by saying she was leaving anyhow , and if he wants her to pay for the night then she will and to hell with it .
19 The Davies admit they will never be able to truly thank the American doctors — or the people who helped raise £350,000 to pay for the transplant finally made possible by a £150,000 gift from King Fahd of Saudi Arabia .
20 They would perhaps like to buy it , but they ca n't sell their property and also if they can sell theirs and they look at the cost of the property and they work out how much they 've got to pay for the mortgage then they find they ca n't afford it .
21 Even the argument that there was not enough money to pay for the programme soon dissolved when heritage languages were actually seen to help immigrant students succeed in other subjects .
22 It might be even better to write the clause as : If the Buyer fails to pay for any delivery in accordance with the terms of this contract , the Seller may withhold further deliveries until the Buyer pays for the deliveries already made .
23 If we assume that the customer has paid for the goods then the first entries would have been to increase the bank by £600 and include in the profit and 1088 account sales of £600 .
24 I was paid for the lessons not in money but in food , so we always had enough oil , sugar , cheese and butter — commodities that were now difficult to obtain .
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