Example sentences of "pay for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | payed for his crimes and he was |
| 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 | After all , paying for something that does not work is presumably more likely to produce frustration than receiving the same ineffective care ‘ free ’ . |
| 4 | And I often think to myself , when I 'm paying for something , think to myself , oh I would never have paid that years ago . |
| 5 | They said lots of women think a man is a mean git if he does n't insist on paying for everything . |
| 6 | I think he 's da oh his dad 's paying for everything first . |
| 7 | Only Jonathan had no qualms about paying for her wherever they went , but maybe that was because he was as rich as she was , even if it was all his father 's money . |
| 8 | In the early 1980s , the society began operating deficits , paying for its expenses by either liquidating chunks of its endowment or selling securities that had been donated in trust . |
| 9 | Each generation of workers is in effect paying for its predecessors ' pensions , in the confident hope that the next generation will pay for theirs . |
| 10 | Well to-do visitors would have taken it as their right to be given a tour of the house and gardens as they travelled the country in past centuries — today visitors from all over the world come to Blenheim — their entrance fees paying for its up-keep . |
| 11 | Germany is paying for its railways , not privatising them . |
| 12 | Mr Hartling 's predecessor , Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan , avoided such pitfalls by simply chartering private jets and paying for them out of his not inconsiderable private coffers . |
| 13 | ‘ A young lecturer is meant to be able to get friends without paying for them . ’ |
| 14 | Mr Anderson has been using the case to support his argument for a change in the law to allow suppliers to recover goods supplied to a customer who goes out of business before paying for them . |
| 15 | ‘ After all , you would be paying for them out of your own pocket . |
| 16 | After the miscarriage Dr Rollerson , Maud 's father , had insisted on paying for them to make an extended tour of Europe , so that Maud could regain her health , and James 's dream of a permanent post at St Bartholomew 's Hospital was indefinitely postponed . |
| 17 | Even he who may be paying for them ! |
| 18 | There are ways of getting things without paying for them . |
| 19 | Dock paying for them . |
| 20 | ‘ And I 'm not paying for them if they 're not what I want . |
| 21 | You ca n't spend the rest of your life paying for them . |
| 22 | I suppose we could have pushed ourselves and got these things , but I think we both knew that erm if we did , we 'd probably have to sell them halfway through paying for them . |
| 23 | This is because people can obtain the non-excludable benefits of public goods without paying for them . [ … ] |
| 24 | And they get them , if they 're lucky , even without paying for them . |
| 25 | If taxes are not providing the education , health-care and national welfare services that the public wants , will the public be willing to go on paying for them ? |
| 26 | The problem can also arise where Y takes goods from X under a sale of goods contract which contains a retention of title clause , i.e. a clause stating that Y is not to become the owner unless and until he has paid for them and that if Y re-sells them before paying for them , X 's ownership is to transfer from the goods to the proceeds of the re-sale received by Y. Suppose Y sells the goods to Z before he has paid X for them . |
| 27 | Once the Tunnel opens — or maybe just before it does and before the French realize what 's going on and think up a way to stop it — he 'll sell them for maybe a thousand times what he 's paying for them now . ’ |
| 28 | I 'm not bothered about paying for them |
| 29 | It also proposes that all components for a motorcycle must be approved for each model of machine so bikers could not use alternative tyres , for example , without paying for them to be tested and approved for their motorcycle . |
| 30 | He left the store without paying for them . |