Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] pay for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since 1987–88 , the state has , for the first time , been responsible for providing stationery and textbooks , which previously parents had been expected to pay for . |
| 2 | Last year , a passive solar collector on a house would have been expected to pay for itself in 12 to 15 years . |
| 3 | Prior Robert might not have been very greatly grieved if Tutilo had been made to pay for his outrageous offence with his skin , but Prior Robert had been at dinner with the abbot and several other witnesses that night , and in any case could hardly be imagined as lurking in wet woods to strike down the delinquent with his own elegant hands . |
| 4 | And now he had been made to pay for what he had done . |
| 5 | How many welfare benefits have been cut and how many freezes have been imposed to pay for taxation cuts ? |
| 6 | I can recall , back in the early ‘ 80s , serious difficulty encountered in the Castle Brand Pension Fund which , when the Company closed , was found to be in serious deficit , as part of that fund had been used to pay for earlier redundancies in that Company . |
| 7 | Now some of the money raised from its sale has been used to pay for a new art Gallery . |
| 8 | But the very thoroughness with which British industry had been converted to war work , the degree to which overseas investment had been sold to pay for the war effort , and the war-weariness accumulated over six years of privation created a twin dilemma : public expectations of a better post-war world had increased in reverse proportion to the capacity of the British economy to finance it . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | A motorist whose car damaged a crash barrier has been asked to pay for the repairs — even though the accident was n't her fault . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ I mean that presumably you would have been required to pay for your bed and board in the normal way without subsidy . |