Example sentences of "would [verb] paid " in BNC.
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1 | And even if I had , I do n't think I 'd 've paid it much attention . |
2 | He 'd have paid a small army of little boys a penny or two a day to run up and down the hill with buckets of the stuff . ’ |
3 | She did n't know it but I 'd have paid her double to get her ass out . |
4 | I 'd have paid anything . ’ |
5 | I said yeah just started , course if I 'd have paid money off I said lived on it you see |
6 | The authority spent twenty thousand pounds on the eviction , half what the squatters say they 'd have paid in rent over the two years |
7 | In the end I 'd have paid it back anyway . |
8 | Ca n't be him , if you 'd have paid five quid a ticket . |
9 | Half an hour with a drum of selective weed killer and a spray and you 'd put paid to that lot for good and all . ’ |
10 | When word came , Ted and I would obey , and we 'd get paid . |
11 | I 'd get paid at the end of the term and to into town and buy a bit of cheese ; a couple of ties ; two or three books — that was it . |
12 | Yes , they 'd , they 'd get paid twice , oh for letting 'em go and roping 'em in , I mean when a ship was swinging there 's somebody , I mean when a ship was swinging at Cliff Quay , there 's somebody got ta let go of the erm , the spring what they 're swinging on . |
13 | Do you know , I wish he 'd get paid same week we do ! |
14 | The advantage of this scheme is that you do n't need to remember to save the money which you would have paid to the Government later on ! |
15 | Yet patience would have paid still better . |
16 | If he 'd been Irish , they would have paid his fare over . |
17 | The price of those chocolates would have paid for food for an Indian family for a whole day . |
18 | ‘ You would have paid for Maggie , would n't you ! ’ |
19 | The sum was to cover compensation for the notional difference between the actual cost of the house , and what they would have paid if the defect had been known beforehand — it was not to cover the cost of the repairs . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | To add to his dismay , both his clothing and parachute were so clogged with peat and mud after an interesting landing that I would have paid money to have witnessed , that packing his gear up and walking out with it was out of the question . |
22 | It was a perfectly serious prophecy , for which I would have paid good money had I gone to one of the Haleiwa psychics . |
23 | The chosen method was to calculate his net loss , taking into account that he would have paid income tax on earnings , then adding back ‘ golden handshake ’ tax so that he would be left with the net amount after the Revenue had collected tax on the damages . |
24 | In an earlier incarnation I would have paid my dues to the temple priests and consulted the oracle : ‘ Please tell me whether the tumour in my chest has grown or diminished ? ’ |
25 | The US Would have paid 25 per cent of the initial costs of the ISA . |
26 | Even though I was earning only –20 a week ( before tax ) at that time , I would have paid to run in that race . |
27 | Even if he did win , the owner would buy him in after the race , so that Boardwalk would have paid back a small fraction of his training costs . |
28 | By the end of the ten years he would have paid the firm £9,946.80 . |
29 | The cost of the engraving alone would have paid for an entire single-cone Style O guitar |
30 | But the beleaguered Everton manager would have paid £1 million just for that precious late goal . |