Example sentences of "would have paid " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd have paid a small army of little boys a penny or two a day to run up and down the hill with buckets of the stuff . ’ |
| 2 | She did n't know it but I 'd have paid her double to get her ass out . |
| 3 | I 'd have paid anything . ’ |
| 4 | I said yeah just started , course if I 'd have paid money off I said lived on it you see |
| 5 | The authority spent twenty thousand pounds on the eviction , half what the squatters say they 'd have paid in rent over the two years |
| 6 | In the end I 'd have paid it back anyway . |
| 7 | Ca n't be him , if you 'd have paid five quid a ticket . |
| 8 | The advantage of this scheme is that you do n't need to remember to save the money which you would have paid to the Government later on ! |
| 9 | Yet patience would have paid still better . |
| 10 | If he 'd been Irish , they would have paid his fare over . |
| 11 | The price of those chocolates would have paid for food for an Indian family for a whole day . |
| 12 | ‘ You would have paid for Maggie , would n't you ! ’ |
| 13 | The sum was to cover compensation for the notional difference between the actual cost of the house , and what they would have paid if the defect had been known beforehand — it was not to cover the cost of the repairs . |
| 14 | Instead , he is limited to a sum which reflects the difference between what he actually paid for the property , and what the Court thinks he would have paid had he known of the defect at the time he bought it . |
| 15 | To add to his dismay , both his clothing and parachute were so clogged with peat and mud after an interesting landing that I would have paid money to have witnessed , that packing his gear up and walking out with it was out of the question . |
| 16 | It was a perfectly serious prophecy , for which I would have paid good money had I gone to one of the Haleiwa psychics . |
| 17 | The chosen method was to calculate his net loss , taking into account that he would have paid income tax on earnings , then adding back ‘ golden handshake ’ tax so that he would be left with the net amount after the Revenue had collected tax on the damages . |
| 18 | In an earlier incarnation I would have paid my dues to the temple priests and consulted the oracle : ‘ Please tell me whether the tumour in my chest has grown or diminished ? ’ |
| 19 | The US Would have paid 25 per cent of the initial costs of the ISA . |
| 20 | Even though I was earning only –20 a week ( before tax ) at that time , I would have paid to run in that race . |
| 21 | Even if he did win , the owner would buy him in after the race , so that Boardwalk would have paid back a small fraction of his training costs . |
| 22 | By the end of the ten years he would have paid the firm £9,946.80 . |
| 23 | The cost of the engraving alone would have paid for an entire single-cone Style O guitar |
| 24 | But the beleaguered Everton manager would have paid £1 million just for that precious late goal . |
| 25 | No man as prudent as William Titford would have paid out good money for a family grave unless he had some firm evidence that there would eventually be some bodies to put in it . |
| 26 | ‘ After Jaws I could have pissed in a pot and they would have paid me something , ’ he says . |
| 27 | THE predicted overspend on the new British Library would have paid for a £1 million public library for every UK local authority , leaving over £100 million for an extension to the British Museum Reading Room with a new underground storage area — which was what everyone wanted in the first place . |
| 28 | If you acquired 100 shares back in 1973 you would have paid £145 . |
| 29 | In that case , I would have paid for all the drinks , would n't I ? |
| 30 | Normally , we would have paid £46 for dinner , bed and breakfast . |