Example sentences of "paid [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Wtewael was then sold to a man from a bank who paid between DM350,000 and 400,000 for it , with the proviso that the sellers would receive an additional commission if the picture could be successfully auctioned for more . |
| 2 | If he paid between twelve and fifteen thousand pounds a kilo , Carmichael has a hundred grand inside that safe . |
| 3 | While yesterday 's purchase price was kept confidential it is believed that Mr Arkley paid between £150,000 and £200,000 for each of his new pubs . |
| 4 | They paid through the nose for ‘ one-to-one intensive tuition from qualified experts supported by sophisticated resources incorporating the latest technology ’ . |
| 5 | I paid through US Approach . |
| 6 | I 've still got the rhinu he paid as his first premium . ’ |
| 7 | It was a wine that they paid about a penny or twopence a glass for . |
| 8 | He paid about fourpence if he could get away with it . |
| 9 | But I paid about four hundred for it Oh but you had to if you wanted it . |
| 10 | well we paid about three pounds for those springs |
| 11 | a right good'un it were , our Arthur give me torch and I had to buy a battery , I paid about three pound odd for this battery |
| 12 | We paid about five fifty , I was up , I was in the actual compartment going home . |
| 13 | Retail is unwilling to help the opposition by saying what it paid for Kent . ’ |
| 14 | That does not mean plummeting house prices — the old adage about most people simply refusing to move rather than sell their house for less than they paid for it remains as true as ever . |
| 15 | It paid for a lot of education . |
| 16 | It paid for the entire holiday . |
| 17 | They never paid for the groceries . |
| 18 | ‘ He paid for the first round out of a fiver and the third with another fiver . |
| 19 | What , drink with a man — drink the whisky he paid for — and then lie in wait to kill him ? ’ |
| 20 | And they paid for it . ’ |
| 21 | WDCS paid for vital repairs to a whale rescue boat in Massachusetts , USA . |
| 22 | So now , Hanson has recouped well over £1billion of the £3.3billion it paid for ConsGold . |
| 23 | Most analysts are surprised at the price which CSR paid for the American ARC operations . |
| 24 | The frequent-flier coupons in practice become the property of the flier , not his employer ( who paid for the ticket ) . |
| 25 | In a report to be published shortly , the Office of Scientific Integrity of the National Institutes of Health ( which paid for the research reported in the paper ) concludes that key data for the paper were faked . |
| 26 | ‘ Better if they paid for some more staff . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | So she paid for it on the spot and took it home . |
| 29 | No one wanted me to do the set , so I paid for it myself . |
| 30 | But in so doing , they ignored a continuing problem ; and they created a new one , for the price they paid for the French troops who solved the English military problem was a monarch who was taught to be French and Catholic , and who would return to her country only when both these things clashed with the prevailing balance of power in Scotland . |