Example sentences of "was [verb] to pay for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shell manufacture in Blundell Street car shed during the First World War : 200,000 shells were produced here , largely by female labour , yielding a profit to the Town of £16,000 , which was used to pay for the erection of the Cenotaph war memorial on Princess Parade . |
| 2 | I asked who was going to pay for the call . |
| 3 | When the respondent returned he was challenged but insisted that he was going to pay for the goods . |
| 4 | He was challenged by the warehouseman but he assured him that he was going to pay for the goods . |
| 5 | When he was challenged by the warehouseman , he assured him that he was going to pay for the goods . |
| 6 | And so , if it came to that , would George , whose only worry when the tree toppled was who was going to pay for the damage . |
| 7 | The jury awarded him the libel raspberry — a halfpenny — so he was forced to pay for the whole action . |
| 8 | They refused to open the gate , and became aggressive , so I was forced to pay for the extra hours parking . |