Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] to pay for " in BNC.

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1 In the end we compromised , Singh apologised and I agreed to pay for repairs to his sidelight .
2 I expected to pay for twin-lens versatility with loss of picture quality , but this was n't the case at all .
3 I promised to pay for — ’
4 John , of Pontypridd , Mid Glamorgan , said yesterday : ‘ It was n't until I came to pay for a car at the auction that I realised what I 'd done .
5 I offered to pay for my transport , but ‘ No ’ was the answer .
6 Predictably , I had to pay for Charlie .
7 I was sad about this because I am a clubbable person by nature , and have never regarded a game of golf as anything but an occasion of pleasurable social exchange ; but an end to Muirfield was the price I had to pay for the championing of Meehan 's cause .
8 However , despite the fact that I had to pay for the survey , the society will not allow me to have a copy of the report .
9 And and I had to pay for it of course .
10 Do you know what the total price of the tickets would have been if I had to pay for this , one hundred and ten pounds
11 if I had to pay for it
12 It 's very difficult , I had to pay for the sheep when the Chichester was here .
13 The feeling of the court was almost a tangible thing : something vile had happened and someone had to pay for it .
14 I wanted to pay for my crime .
15 The main complaint was that Microsoft offered large discounts to PC makers who agreed to pay for a copy of MS-DOS or Windows for every machine they sold , whether or not it was actually loaded with one .
16 Who agreed to pay for Karen 's medical tests ?
17 Okay , but you 're buying more benefits , therefore you got to pay for it more
18 keep that in case you got to pay for it , it er , you wo n't do it now this moment
19 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 .
20 When she came to pay for the bill , she found that it had already been paid .
21 He says it came as a great shock , although when she was a drug addict they had wondered how she managed to pay for heroin .
22 They will only get help if they can not easily realise savings of the person who died to pay for the bill , or if paying for the bill brought their own family savings below £500 .
23 She had to pay for the lavish colour brochure ( the details of which contained many mistakes ) , she provided the historical background and ran her feet off showing people over : all they did was make appointments ( underpaid girls did that ) and yet she had to pay them thousands .
24 His weight had increased since their marriage , and she began to dread his nightly activity , but she accepted it without complaint as the price she had to pay for Corrie .
25 She had to pay for tutoring out of her supplementary benefit , but it was well worth it as she enjoyed her studies , did well , and is still friends with her tutor .
26 No , and she had to pay for the petrol .
27 She had to pay for it herself and now , she 's had no pocket money since !
28 She had to pay for eight pillows .
29 Until recently , diesel cars were slow and very noisy , the theory being that this was the price you had to pay for economy .
30 How much extra would it cost you if you had to pay for the additional choc ices ?
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