Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] pay " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Saturday everyone got paid . |
| 2 | I 'm aware of having made only two conscious sacrifices for the sake of my young , and neither of them has paid off . |
| 3 | When the Malay leaders of Malaysia assert that the Malays are ‘ bumiputras ’ , sons of the soil , and therefore to be accorded privileges as against the Chinese and Indian Malaysians , only the unkind would point out that the Malays were also immigrants from an earlier period , and that no-one has paid attention to the claims of the real indigenous peoples , the Dayak and other tribes of the forestland . |
| 4 | Not everyone wants to pay for the highest level of service available , so clients can select the level of service they require . |
| 5 | Thus when I favour pay for ‘ childcare ’ I mean the day-to-day domestic care of people who need it ( obviously I would include adults too infirm to care for themselves ) . |
| 6 | Well , 'e give me 'alf-a-crown , so I 'ad to pay me dues in the way of informin' 'im . |
| 7 | I 'ad to pay three bob for a decent one . |
| 8 | I think I must make the ordinary orders to costs , well what I will do is erm doctor must I think pay the costs of the appeal against the order of master erm both here and below on the other hand the defendant seems to be able to bear the costs of the appeal against the September order , that 's the order , that 's the order of , is that Mr ? , er sorry when I say the doc doctor bears the costs must er in fact he must , right , it is the August , that 's the August decision both , both before erm the taxing officer and on this appeal and er the , I dismiss the defendants appeal against the September board with costs |
| 9 | I was determined , so I agreed to pay it back every week . |
| 10 | In the end we compromised , Singh apologised and I agreed to pay for repairs to his sidelight . |
| 11 | ‘ I got paid tonight . ’ |
| 12 | How much I used really depended on what time of the month it was , on when I got paid , like . |
| 13 | I think that this time I decided meself that I was gon na come off when I got paid . |
| 14 | And I got paid one and six some weeks for a weekly ticket . |
| 15 | ‘ I got paid ! ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I got paid ! ’ |
| 17 | then I got sort of er saving because I got paid what redundancy protection and everything , and I says to her oh bugger it I 'm gon na pay that off and then |
| 18 | I got paid for August which was quite clever really cos my date would of been sort of half way through to book my holiday |
| 19 | Soon as I got paid last month . |
| 20 | Er , I got paid , I got paid for the disabled games last year |
| 21 | Er , I got paid , I got paid for the disabled games last year |
| 22 | I think there 's a few times I was gon na pack in cos I used to do the same amount of work as everyone else and I got paid |
| 23 | I expected to pay for twin-lens versatility with loss of picture quality , but this was n't the case at all . |
| 24 | Whilst learning to take the rough and the smooth of rugby fortunes with a philosophic air , Townsend has already reacted to criticism with refinements to his play that have been a factor in his selection for Australia : ‘ I tend to pay heed more to criticism than to praise . |
| 25 | ‘ At the end of the exhibition , looking at a painting entitled Black on Grey , and dated 1970 , I tried to pay attention , ‘ bare attention ’ , to its visual forms . |
| 26 | ‘ No , ’ he said , when I tried to pay him . |
| 27 | And actually , until I 'm in a steady , ongoing relationship with a woman , I expect to pay … ‘ |
| 28 | If someone wants to pay 3.0 mil for Deane god help them — are then any quoted values on Rush and Ferd — both players we have recently been linked with . |
| 29 | Applications are usually expensive , often costing several hundred pounds ; after all , someone has to pay for the advertising and the glossy box . |
| 30 | Meanwhile I propose paying a visit to the offices of the Wiener Tageblatt . ’ |