Example sentences of "[pron] be pay [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have to stick to my guns , I 'm paying a fortune for this stuff , why should I have faulty |
| 2 | ‘ Basically I 'm paid a salary and given complete control over training his horses . |
| 3 | I translated Schiller 's Don Carlos and revised my version of Heinrich von Kleist 's Prinz von Homburg for Eric Bentley 's anthology of classic German theatre , for which I was paid a pittance . |
| 4 | She was most amusing , and described how much she had been abused by reviewers and how one man wrote to her asking her to explain what on earth her books were all about , and enclosed a stamped and addressed envelope for her reply — ‘ I used it when I was paying a bill ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ I was paying the bulk of the rental from my salary that I was earning elsewhere . |
| 6 | They had engaged soldiers for a year , but had been deprived by the truce of most of the ransoms which were to pay the troops ' wages for the second half of the year . |
| 7 | I suppose we 're talking about people who people other people the people who are paying the Poll Tax just do n't really care that much about . |
| 8 | But that does n't mean to say that what Danny said was very valuable , and as you said Adrian , the four , the four parties , the receiver , the thirty party receiver , the people who are paying the bills buyer and us are very happy in many cases with using carriage forward in a positive way not just for returns |
| 9 | The obscenity , the obscenity of a Labour Councillor , Councillor in , saying his principles mean he wo n't pay the community charge , but his principles do not extend to not claiming over fifteen hundred pounds worth of expenses , paid for by those people who are paying the community charge in . |
| 10 | Nine elected students form the overall Executive who are paid a wage and given a year off from studies to work full-time on behalf of their fellow students . |
| 11 | Nine elected students form the overall Executive who are paid a wage and given a year off from studies to work full-time on behalf of their fellow students . |
| 12 | You are paying the cost of the pollution yourself — although lots of other people may pay too , such as the workers spraying the pesticides and future generations whose water supplies are polluted . |
| 13 | It says for a quarter , which means you 're paying a quarter 's erm , like charge , which is s seven quid , but it 's only actually for a , a month . |
| 14 | It most be the case if you 're paying a profit to the sub-contractor . |
| 15 | Yeah well that 's it , if your wages are only eight quid a week if you 're paying a month 's wa |
| 16 | If you 've got four thousand pound car expenses , he might question where you 're paying the car expenses to . |
| 17 | ‘ You 're paid a retainer every month to keep me informed on developments in and around Beirut . |
| 18 | The rest of the time the students , who were paid a salary , were deployed to teach in schools throughout the country , with the back-up of distance learning materials and periodic supervisory visits from National Centre staff . |
| 19 | they really did have a proper scheme and you were paid a sort of reasonable wage |
| 20 | You were paid the money and you ran with the game . |
| 21 | Me mother 's kept me in food , she 's looked after me dogs , she 's paid the vet 's bills … |
| 22 | ’ And the one who 's paying the bribe ? ’ |
| 23 | To find out who is paying the price and who benefiting , cherchez la monnaie . |
| 24 | Robin-Anne nodded very earnestly as though she truly cared about my opinion , but her next question showed that she was paying no attention to my inanities . |
| 25 | She was running a milliner 's shop in the Market Place as early as 1822 , thence to King Street , along from the Three Swans Inn and the infant school , followed by a brief spell in Cheap Street , where she was paying a rate of 9d. and an additional amount for ‘ Stocks ’ by virtue of her fleeting partnership with someone called Grant . |
| 26 | As always she had won her way , and now she was paying the price of it . |
| 27 | Among them , the first child ever to read The Hobbit ; the son of the publisher Stanley Unwin , who was paid a shilling to read the book and say whether it should be published . |
| 28 | His failure can not have pleased the training officer , who was paid a bonus for every dealer who kept his place on the dealing floor . |
| 29 | ‘ Hardly had I arrived there than I was called back to entertain Princess Margaret , who was paying a visit to the studio , ’ recalls executive producer Peter . |
| 30 | Had an ITN camera crew been present in Safeways when my husband and I ( to use a Royal phrase ) argued so publicly over who was paying the £75 bill , heaven knows what conclusions they would have drawn . |