Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] pay for [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | You should have told him that we pay for it by the gallon not by the year ! |
2 | He was forced to sell his Thames-side mansion at Bray , Berkshire , for £1.5million — £700,000 less than he paid for it in 1988 . |
3 | Now it 's shrinking and the dye is coming out — look at the water , it 's bright red — you see , you ignore good instructions in your wilfulness and laziness and pride and you pay for it with a ruined skirt . |
4 | Oh it was yes , I mean y when you take now erm er a boatman , I mean , and he , he like today well they ring up , I mean today I know the Ipswich Port Authority they lay the phone on the houses and they pay for it for 'em |
5 | And he paid for it with his life ( 31:8 ) . |
6 | The priest finally concludes that the sheepskin is properly his , as he paid for it in goods not services . |
7 | She passed on to our agent the name Raphael , though he paid for it with his life . |