Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] paid " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , the only the time he 'd been paid |
| 2 | Only 49 per cent of companies surveyed were paid by 75 per cent or more of their customers within the agreed credit period and 20 per cent said that half their customer were failing to pay on time . |
| 3 | He said he had been paid for the picture , but admitted that ‘ in order to entice bidders ’ he had agreed with Sotheby 's that payment would be spread over three instalments . |
| 4 | He said that at the original trial , the magazine had no idea £25,000 had been paid to Mrs Sutcliffe by Mail on Sunday reporter Barbara Jones - and nor had the jury . |
| 5 | If , on any of the pay days , your employee was not due any pay ( for example , if wages had been paid in advance at holiday time ) , the ‘ blank weeks ’ are still included in the calculation . |
| 6 | If on any of the pay-days , your employee did not get any pay ( for example , if wages had been paid in advance at holiday time ) , the ‘ blank weeks ’ are still included in the calculation . |
| 7 | In the first half of 1921 nearly all workers and state employees had been paid almost entirely in kind but by june 1922 66 per cent came in the form of cash . |
| 8 | It was found that scant attention had been paid to raising the cultural level of party members . |
| 9 | He had been paid for by his country of origin — reared and raised as capitalist underdevelopment had willed it for the labour markets of Europe . ’ |
| 10 | Thirty pounds had been paid to Lucrece Ltd , High Street , Kingsmarkham ( his wife 's wedding outfit ? ) and another thirty in the same week , the last week of May , to Excelsior Electrics , Stowerton ( Pertwee 's record player ? ) . |
| 11 | The Communist Party newspaper , Rabotnichesko Delo , revealed that unknown sums of convertible currency had been paid to foreign publishers to produce Mr Zhivkov 's books . |
| 12 | If BP boss Sir Peter Walters had been paid the same proportion of sales he would have received a salary of £8.1billion . |
| 13 | He felt sure the man had been paid some sort of allowance for putting him up , but it did n't look as if any of it was going to be spent on food . |
| 14 | There would be change enough from her £5,000 after the funeral expenses had been paid , and I felt a little better after that . |
| 15 | They frequently attempted to reduce the basic wage of workers and to reduce the cost of living addition which had been paid throughout the war and in the immediate post-war years . |
| 16 | It proved a remarkable race for Naali who had been paid by the promoters to act as a pacemaker and drop out at the halfway stage . |
| 17 | He did not know how much had been paid but believed it was less than £50m . |
| 18 | After proper tribute had been paid to the heroic efforts of its singers and orchestra , the Royal Opera 's general director , Jeremy Isaacs , came on to the stage to make a special presentation to Sir Edward Downes . |
| 19 | When pressure was eventually put on L.E.A.s in the 1950s to take over employment of the various county organisers whose salaries hitherto had been paid from Carnegie Trust funds , most authorities did so on condition that the organisers ' work should be extended to schools . |
| 20 | They too had been paid in oil to get round the world trade boycott . |
| 21 | The cost of one of Stein 's instruments was 300 gulden , twice the annual salary Mozart had been paid in the service of Colloredo . |
| 22 | They belonged without doubt to the successful minority , but a heavy price had been paid by most of them . |
| 23 | Any money remaining after the fiddler had been paid , was given to the couple as a wedding present . |
| 24 | A belated denial that any subsidies had been paid to Neophane did not materialise until June 1991 , when the Italian government explained that extensive inquiries had been necessary because the original allegations lacked detail . |
| 25 | He had heard that forty pounds a year had been paid for a girl to be looked after in the asylum of Dr Perfect in West Malling . |
| 26 | Towards the close of the century , large tracts of the Highlands had been surveyed but little or no attention had been paid to the islands . |
| 27 | The statement would simply say that an exchange had been arranged in conditions of total secrecy , as demanded by the kidnappers , an unspecified ransom had been paid , and that they had broken their word . |
| 28 | Savory argued that a stranger to whom money had been paid in breach of trust could only be held liable as a constructive trustee to account for the money after he had parted with it , if it could be shown that he knew the money misapplied was trust money . |
| 29 | The Woolwich Equitable Building Society was entitled as of right to interest on the repayment of a capital sum that had been paid to the Inland Revenue pursuant to Regulations that were ultra vires and void . |
| 30 | In this case , the mortgagee had been paid and only the receivers were awaiting their remuneration and costs . |