Example sentences of "[verb] pay for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You want paying for your help ? ’ |
| 2 | It would be a new tax , involve paying for something that is at present free and would hit hardest at low-income car-owners . |
| 3 | This would not apply , for instance , to reference use of the library , where public use qualifies us for a discount on book purchases , but would apply for , say , postal loans of slides , commercial enquiries , online searches , photocopies and so on , where such services would use staff time and involve paying for resources which we would not otherwise have to buy in . |
| 4 | This represents a notional calculation of the benefit gained by living in one 's own house or , in other words , the rent which one would consider paying for the use of the house . |
| 5 | The abandoned house they bought needs repairs , but the agency helped to pay for some of the necessary work . |
| 6 | The legacy also helped to pay for Sánchez Cotán 's ‘ Still Life with game , fruit and vegetables ’ , painted in 1602 . |
| 7 | When a customer wants to pay for something through the system , he or she presents a banker 's card or a Visa credit card to the shopkeeper . |
| 8 | Not everyone wants to pay for the highest level of service available , so clients can select the level of service they require . |
| 9 | The biggest villain in the escalation of health-care costs is the ordinary American citizen , who demands maximum coverage for everything but wants to pay for nothing . |
| 10 | needs to pay for it . |
| 11 | No parent needs to pay for the essential items . |
| 12 | If , as an example , an importer of goods in the UK needs to pay for goods purchased from the USA , the importer will have to send the money to the USA . |
| 13 | Mrs Thatcher will have to be satisfied with the assurances she will receive from Mr Bush , who will tell her that , since defence cuts are politically inevitable , it is far better for modest and planned reductions to be proposed by his cabinet and the Pentagon than for swingeing cuts to be imposed by the US Congress , which is already chafing at the thought of the US budget deficit being deepened to pay for the defence of the wealthy Europeans . |
| 14 | The kind of article that someone who lives my kind of life finds himself having to write to pay for that kind of life . |
| 15 | But why was the party so keen to have two national daily newspapers published in Dar es Salaam when it was clear that they would use up much-needed funds in the initial investment and could not guarantee to pay for themselves ? |
| 16 | A SUPERMARKET assistant recognised a man who tried to pay for goods with a stolen credit card — because she 'd seen him as a strippergram . |
| 17 | A plump woman in a white wool suit and dark glasses bought it and tried to pay for it by cheque . |
| 18 | Then because of another mix up with their concert promoter in England , they discovered they did n't have enough other venues booked to pay for their stay . |
| 19 | Further , the acceptance of the need for rearmament connected with the Korean war on the part of the parliamentary leadership led to a damaging split within the party , with Bevan and Wilson resigning over Gaitskell 's budgetary measures designed to pay for the arms . |
| 20 | ‘ If people want to pay for perfection that 's fine by me . ’ |
| 21 | Yes I want to pay for me er papers so |
| 22 | The monarchy should be abolished and the land of the aristocracy confiscated to pay for putting England back on its feet . |
| 23 | Anyway , the speaker added , with a grin , the women are willing cooperators , for they ‘ can not understand why their visitors expect to pay for sex ’ . |
| 24 | He did not need to pay for it . |
| 25 | Both self-employed , and having the required skills , the two set about raising the £150 they would each need to pay for the journey as well as the tools and materials they would need . |
| 26 | The decision to design the lamp and gear separately was made so that consumers did not need to pay for control gear each time they bought a 2D lamp . |
| 27 | We w er we would , we would only need to pay for them at the rate where they lived . |
| 28 | You do n't need to pay for it ! |
| 29 | If additional work , or special items such as gold taps are requested by you , then you will be expected to pay for these . |
| 30 | It seems odd that I should be expected to pay for the privilege of assisting in this way , in particular , as I doubt that these changes will alleviate the falling numbers of applicants to medical schools in the UK . |