Example sentences of "[verb] to pay for [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If , as an example , an importer of goods in the UK needs to pay for goods purchased from the USA , the importer will have to send the money to the USA . |
| 2 | A SUPERMARKET assistant recognised a man who tried to pay for goods with a stolen credit card — because she 'd seen him as a strippergram . |
| 3 | ‘ I think it is incredible that with the supposed new spirit of co-operation , a major tourist country like France should have this quite ridiculous position where people wanting to pay for goods and services are being charged exorbitant fees , ’ he said . |
| 4 | They are still refusing to pay for licences , or to pay fines , and they seem quite prepared to go to Mountjoy Jail in a spirit of martyrdom . |
| 5 | There is also a belief that as far as possible people should be made to pay for services provided by the state , partly to reduce public expenditure and taxation , and partly because it is believed that charges will increase public pressure for services to be provided efficiently . |
| 6 | His talks in Madrid with Prime Minister Felipe González ended with a joint political declaration and agreement on a package of economic and cultural agreements included the granting to the Soviet Union of 150,000 million pesetas ( US$1,500 million ) of Spanish credit to be used to pay for imports of Spanish consumer goods . |
| 7 | I question both the justice of all governments and the principle by which my taxes can be used to pay for machines of mass destruction . |
| 8 | Midland eurocheques can be used to pay for goods and services at more than 5 million shops , garages , hotels and restaurants in 28 European countries . |
| 9 | Note that cheques and credit cards , although they are used to pay for goods directly , do not themselves count as money . |
| 10 | Such expenditure is used to pay for items of a relatively short-term nature ( such as wages and postage ) . |
| 11 | Well this is it we 've said like , there 's so much that everybody 's got to pay for non-payers is n't there ? |
| 12 | But you think it 'll kill him from one o'clock in the night till seven o'clock the next morning , it 's , it 's ridiculous and financially were no different because you 've got to pay for digs you 've got to pay for the petrol |
| 13 | Till now , Ken Livingstone had been putting up a good show , joking about John Smith serving as his deputy and arguing for defence cuts to pay for benefits rather than tax increases . |
| 14 | And the thing is that when of the , I have n't seen anywhere any kind of poll system , you know , I think it 's a , I 've always thought it outrageous as a women actually , that women have had to pay for toilets , and erm , I mean if we , you know , if we , we might , I mean , I , I would be in favour of a system where , you know , you , say a local Council issues a pass , which you pay for , have differential rates , but it 's like people paying up front for that toilet service . |
| 15 | Part of that money had been allocated to pay for pensions and vehicle leases , but now the force will have to find the money elsewhere or face cutting jobs . |
| 16 | You 'd have to pay for exams and all that , but it 's all paid for at the end of the day in n it ? |
| 17 | There 's actually a rule that members of the general committee do n't have to pay for meals . |
| 18 | We got charge accounts at Max 's Kansas City , we got a charge account with a limousine service — we rode limousines instead of taxis because we did n't have to pay for limousines and we 'd have to pay the taxis — so we were always in limousines . |
| 19 | In the absence of any agreement , or undertaking , then probably out of necessity the wife will have to pay for repairs , and explore the possibility when the trust comes to an end of applying to the court ( under " liberty to apply " ) for a variation of the division of the sale proceeds so that she is reimbursed . |
| 20 | I 'd save lots of money as I would n't have to pay for digs . |
| 21 | The number of their monthly transactions and the average value of these transactions has also been growing as they transfer monies from their savings accounts to pay for surveys , place a deposit with estate agents and so forth . |
| 22 | All she was capable of doing was gazing at him , hardly aware of her own nakedness , while her eyes and her mind told her that , far from having to pay for women 's favours , if Rune Christensen had been so inclined he could have made a fortune as a gigolo . |
| 23 | Subject to having to pay for goods in the last four categories , the customer is entitled to be repaid any money he has already paid . |
| 24 | In effect , it chose to pay for workers ' deferred consumption by staking a claim on America 's corporate profits . |
| 25 | Or , in the case of a consent order , the wife might undertake to pay for repairs . |
| 26 | The DHA would find that some of its carefully planned resources are being diverted to pay for services which may not figure in those plans . |
| 27 | In the end we compromised , Singh apologised and I agreed to pay for repairs to his sidelight . |
| 28 | He blames the crisis on the fact that the museum has been forced to pay for warders out of its own budget , which has meant that the sum of DM300,000 ( £103,000 ; $186,000 ) per year earmarked for acquisitions has been virtually used up . |
| 29 | More and more parents are now being forced to pay for essentials in a system which should be free . |
| 30 | It shows that an apparently affluent London couple will have virtually nothing left to pay for holidays , consumer durables or for saving under Labour . |