Example sentences of "[pron] paid for " in BNC.
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1 | They ask me how much I paid for everything I was wearing , how much I pay for my room at the pension , how much salary I shall be getting at the university — a salary to me ridiculously small , little more than pocket-money , but for the majority of working-class Spaniards a fortune . |
2 | No one wanted me to do the set , so I paid for it myself . |
3 | I paid for them , and I 'm hungry . ’ |
4 | I own it , I paid for it , but it would only go to someone that was old enough , mature enough . |
5 | In other words I got what I paid for , considering the price . |
6 | ‘ He gave the glass , I paid for the labour . ’ |
7 | Anyway , I paid for the blessed thing . ’ |
8 | ‘ I paid for the rent for the villa , which I arranged myself with a Belgian count who owned it , and also paid the air fares for all the Mellors , ’ she said . |
9 | Even afterwards , when I was a teenager , I paid for my bad timing , coming just too early to enjoy the fun and freedom that waited round the corner . |
10 | It is really my own it was n't given by the government I paid for it . |
11 | I paid for the petrol and the mints , and the young chap said : ‘ It 's Geoffrey Boycott sat in that car , is n't it ? ’ |
12 | Seventy grand I paid for it , and that was the national debt then I can tell you . |
13 | I paid for three plants ( £4 ) and when I got home , cleaned them and put them in two of my tanks . |
14 | Later , I paid for a room in Bradford for him to work in . |
15 | I paid for the taxi because he had no change . |
16 | This was confirmed when Epson quoted £200 for a 2Mb memory module — that 's nearly half the price I paid for the PC ! |
17 | And I learned to drive — mum and dad paid for my driving lessons and I paid for the driving test . |
18 | So I paid for the electric motor of the engine to be serviced , but it never worked very well . |
19 | So I paid for it . |
20 | He said , behind me , ‘ These , I paid for . ’ |
21 | Calmly I paid for the pod 's berth and walked away , neither too fast nor too slow . |
22 | THELMA RITTER , the woman behind the counter in Kelly 's , looked at me sideways when I paid for doughnuts and coffee with a wet hundred-dollar bill . |
23 | ‘ But that 's hardly more than I paid for it ! ’ protested Edward Crumwallis , his voice high with outrage and fear . |
24 | ‘ Allowing for inflation , it 's very much less than I paid for it . ’ |
25 | I paid for it . |
26 | It 's just my size and I paid for it . |
27 | I paid for a tub of polyripple already with the stuff in it |
28 | Ha ha I paid for the tickets I 'm gon na drink it . |
29 | I paid for it did n't I , a pound in a draw . |
30 | Guess how much I paid for it ? |