Example sentences of "pay off [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Darting Grimm a cautioning glance , Jaq paid off the hired guards in local Voronovs , plus a retainer so that they would continue on call if need be . |
| 2 | As they hopped out of Armstrong , Fenella leaned in through the meter window as if paying off a real cab . |
| 3 | She has two children under five and has just £50 to spend as she is currently paying off a social fund loan . |
| 4 | When the time comes to settle your Access account , you have the option of paying off the whole amount owing , without it costing you a penny in interest , or of repaying a portion of it and paying interest on what is left . |
| 5 | As hire purchase was judged to be a system of hiring with an option to buy ( by eventually paying off the full credit price ) , HP escaped the controls of the Moneylenders Acts . |
| 6 | TRAP TWO : Running up big bills on credit cards means you 'll have trouble paying off the full debt when the statement arives . |
| 7 | Meanwhile , those of you yet to take out a home-loan but thinking of doing so might be better off going for the repayment version where you pay off a little bit of the loan and interest as you go along . |
| 8 | Doctors who are known to carry out abortions merely pay off the necessary authorities and are rarely persecuted . |
| 9 | In addition we were going to have to buy the premises for £95,000 , and pay off the old debts . |
| 10 | Or , if you can get a lower rate of interest , you could re-mortgage , ie , take out a larger loan with a new lender and pay off the old mortgage . |
| 11 | If a villager migrates to Bombay and makes a living as a hawker , he probably has to bribe a cop to stay in business and pay off the local mafia don . |
| 12 | The crystallisation of an earlier floating charge does not crystallise a subsequent floating charge since the subsequent chargee may pay off the earlier charge or agree to indemnify the company which continues to carry on business despite the crystallisation of the earlier charge with respect to any liability incurred towards the earlier chargee . |
| 13 | This was probably due either to farmers intending to hand on their asset and therefore not thinking of it as one or to younger men trying to pay off a large loan ( they also did not want to think about it ! ) . |
| 14 | Giardini ended the season in serious financial embarrassment , virtually imprisoned in his home for fear of his creditors — and it took him five years to pay off a huge overdraft of –602 . |
| 15 | They 'll be the first things to go as he struggles to pay off a mounting damages and legal costs bill of £2.5m . |
| 16 | From that time , I will be obliged to pay off an ever-increasing student loan . |
| 17 | Across Britain , Tory associations have enough to pay off the Central Office deficit and still spend plenty on local campaigning . |
| 18 | Finnegan hopes to use some of his pension benefits to pay off the outstanding arrears . |
| 19 | If a customer 's circumstances change adversely for reasons beyond the customer 's control , the finance company will look sympathetically at the circumstances and will try , subject to any restrictions placed upon it by the Consumer Credit Act 1974 , to reach an accommodation with the customer to pay off the outstanding balance in a practicable manner . |
| 20 | The Russian side also indicated that Russia would not demand that Estonia should help to pay off the former USSR 's foreign debt . |
| 21 | But within days ( i ) a bill arrives for £2.5m to pay off the former DLO employees ; ( ii ) the borough treasury suddenly lights upon a £6.5m deficit left over from 1987-88 ; and ( iii ) up pop £21m of debt repayments , mostly the result of deferred-payment agreements — glorified hire purchase — entered into when Whitehall started rate-capping in the mid-1980s . |
| 22 | By September 1991 , a combination of the impact of the recession , the high fixed costs of the Newport office and the loans to pay off the four partners had landed the firm with a £1.65m debt , £1m of which they saw as long-term borrowing and £650,000 as their working capital requirement . |
| 23 | By the terms of the Tomlin order the appellants agreed to pay off the second charge and to grant a further charge to the plaintiff for the purpose of securing payment to the plaintiff of the sum of £150,000 , such payment being one of the terms of the agreement made between the parties . |
| 24 | Charlie has taken a street sweeper 's job to earn the money to pay off the cruel landlord who would otherwise put a blind girl and her mother out onto the streets . |
| 25 | More and more people are choosing to pay off the full amount on their credit cards at the end of each month — using them like charge cards to avoid interest charges . |
| 26 | The borrower gets the amount of this loan , minus the unpaid balance of the original one , as cash in hand , and then pays off the full number of instalments needed to pay off the full sum . |
| 27 | Austerity measures : On Feb. 27 the President announced that ministers and civil servants would have to pay up to 40 per cent of their salaries into a fund to pay off the foreign debt , while private-sector firms would have to pay a " solidarity tax " . |
| 28 | The receiver 's job is to safeguard the creditor 's security , and to sell sufficient of the charged assets to pay off the secured debt . |
| 29 | Ill health and bereavement are the most common needs for which the charity gives assistance — for example , it has recently helped a member whose career was terminated by multiple sclerosis to buy an electric wheelchair , and given a loan to a member 's widow reliant on state benefits to enable her to pay off the disputed partnership settlement debts accrued when her husband died . |
| 30 | The first , Parentline , allows parents to use their own homes as security for children who want to move , but can not afford to pay off the original loan first . |