Example sentences of "pay for [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Again it was argued that the poor should not have to pay for their own ‘ welfare ’ out of hard-earned incomes . |
| 32 | The Soviets , ravaged by Germany during the war , hoped for large-scale reparations payments from the defeated enemy , to pay for their own reconstruction . |
| 33 | ‘ Nowadays , the young ambassadors have to pay for their own trips , but to ensure there is a true cross-section of American society takes part many of them are sponsored . ’ |
| 34 | Those who had been obliged to pay for their own lunches had managed to keep awake ; those who had been the beneficiaries of hospitality of one kind or another , had dozed gently , helped by the lights and the warmth of so many . |
| 35 | The prisoners , some of whom refer to themselves , as ‘ gangsters ’ , have to pay for their own food . |
| 36 | British Rail has an ancient obligation to pay for its own police force . |
| 37 | We had to pay for our own training in those days . |
| 38 | You 'd have to pay for your own food , because — unless things look up for us — we shall have to live on grass like Nebuchadnezzar ; but that would n't cost you £1 a week , so you could manage the fare , could n't you ? |
| 39 | Four thirty nine please , oh that 's not nice is it having to pay for your own |
| 40 | ‘ I 'm a photographer , not a billionaire , so I needed to get a good idea going to pay for it all . |
| 41 | ‘ I do n't possess a mansion with a swimming-pool , a Rolls in the garage , and a business to pay for it all , ’ he admitted in a recent biography . |
| 42 | You made great play on how , ooh advertising is going to pay for it all , out of a budget of about sixty odd thousand pounds you 've got fifteen hundred pounds in in advertising . |
| 43 | If I did not have a little bit in the bank I would not be able to pay for it all . |
| 44 | to pay for it all . |
| 45 | No well they had quite a cheap way I think they had to pay for it all themselves . |
| 46 | So that you can have the resources to pay for it all . |
| 47 | Students paid for their own accommodation . |
| 48 | ‘ Flora always paid for her own drinks . ’ |
| 49 | Meryl extricated a copy of the Sunday Shocker from the rack with as much nonchalance as she could muster , and hid it within the folds of her own more conservative newspaper as soon as she had paid for them both . |
| 50 | It was to be a local public relations exercise , bought and paid for nothing more . |
| 51 | " I learnt to live with other people when I was in the Services , but when you 've paid for your own room and it is n't your domain you feel insecure . |
| 52 | he 's paid , she 's paid for it all , I know it 's fabulous paper |
| 53 | so I should , er , that should have set the precedent , I get paid for it this year |