Example sentences of "paid for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Retail is unwilling to help the opposition by saying what it paid for Kent . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It paid for a lot of education . |
| 4 | It paid for the entire holiday . |
| 5 | They never paid for the groceries . |
| 6 | ‘ He paid for the first round out of a fiver and the third with another fiver . |
| 7 | What , drink with a man — drink the whisky he paid for — and then lie in wait to kill him ? ’ |
| 8 | And they paid for it . ’ |
| 9 | WDCS paid for vital repairs to a whale rescue boat in Massachusetts , USA . |
| 10 | So now , Hanson has recouped well over £1billion of the £3.3billion it paid for ConsGold . |
| 11 | Most analysts are surprised at the price which CSR paid for the American ARC operations . |
| 12 | The frequent-flier coupons in practice become the property of the flier , not his employer ( who paid for the ticket ) . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ Better if they paid for some more staff . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | So she paid for it on the spot and took it home . |
| 17 | No one wanted me to do the set , so I paid for it myself . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | In Port Sunlight W. H. Lever paid for Christ Church Congregational Chapel . |
| 20 | According to Mr Hagger the company has lost many thousands of pounds because it paid for a loan that was not forthcoming . |
| 21 | Just who paid for the telephone call is in some doubt . |
| 22 | Q : We paid for our holiday in Paphos , Cyprus , in January , but 36 hours before we were due to leave our tour operator , Saga Holidays , rang to tell us the Roman Hotel in Paphos was double-booked and to offer us the first week at another hotel which was , in our opinion , inferior . |
| 23 | Tam paid for the drinks and they walked across to a table by the door . |
| 24 | The reason for the difference seemed to be that the DHSS paid for nursing home treatment in a number of instances : ‘ They took the pension and attendance allowance and the DHSS paid the rest . ’ |
| 25 | The CEGB paid for advertisements in its magazine and funded WWF publications . |
| 26 | Particularly the prosperous merchants and bankers , whose taxes paid for the police . |
| 27 | ‘ And who paid for the extra deliveries ? |
| 28 | ‘ Who paid for our page in Variety ? ’ inquired Jo . |
| 29 | Insurance may ONLY cover the current market value of your car , not what you paid for it . |
| 30 | Instead , he is limited to a sum which reflects the difference between what he actually paid for the property , and what the Court thinks he would have paid had he known of the defect at the time he bought it . |