Example sentences of "paid for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It paid for the entire holiday . |
| 2 | They never paid for the groceries . |
| 3 | ‘ He paid for the first round out of a fiver and the third with another fiver . |
| 4 | Most analysts are surprised at the price which CSR paid for the American ARC operations . |
| 5 | The frequent-flier coupons in practice become the property of the flier , not his employer ( who paid for the ticket ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Just who paid for the telephone call is in some doubt . |
| 9 | Tam paid for the drinks and they walked across to a table by the door . |
| 10 | Particularly the prosperous merchants and bankers , whose taxes paid for the police . |
| 11 | ‘ And who paid for the extra deliveries ? |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I said , and I pushed the instrument back and paid for the rest . |
| 14 | Uncle Bean paid for the shoeing . |
| 15 | The area close to the pond was owned by county councillor Peter Constable Maxwell and the Maxwell Family Trust , but the family generously not only made the land available at no charge , but also paid for the landscaping closest to the pond . |
| 16 | Hope also paid for the chapel . |
| 17 | The Nuffield Foundation ( which paid for the feasibility study ) has given £30 000 and the trustees are advertising for a project director this week . |
| 18 | Thurot 's first attempt to land in Ireland , near Londonderry , was a failure and one of his ships became separated and never rejoined him , leaving four to turn up next on the Isle of Islay off the coast of Argyll in western Scotland , where , with a courtesy rare among invaders , he paid for the provisions he needed . |
| 19 | For most people the church provided the main consolations in a short and hard life : devotions , ritual and , occasionally , the feasts of Scot ales , where the parson paid for the drink , and on great occasions , such as the Feast of St Pancras in Lewes , festivities and public ceremony . |
| 20 | ‘ He gave the glass , I paid for the labour . ’ |
| 21 | Wanting to keep their plans secret , and convinced that ‘ no one would fund such a crazy idea ’ , they paid for the initial experiments out of their own pockets . |
| 22 | But the money with which we paid for the house — and with which she bought her nylons and expensive corsets — came from scrap metal : though her father never spoke to her again after she left her first husband , she was his only child and he died intestate . |
| 23 | Anyway , I paid for the blessed thing . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I paid for the rent for the villa , which I arranged myself with a Belgian count who owned it , and also paid the air fares for all the Mellors , ’ she said . |
| 25 | This generous loan from the Vatican is in exchange for payment by the German episcopal conference for a new air conditioning system in the Vatican Library 's book stacks , a deal arranged by the Stuttgart Belser-Verlag which also paid for the exhibition 's catalogue ( by Jonathan Alexander , Eberhard König , Jean Michel Massing and others ; DM98 ) . |
| 26 | Newman paid for the drink . |
| 27 | He paid for the drinks and took them back to the others . |
| 28 | Conditions of work were not pleasant ; landowners tried to get their estates cultivated by indentured labourers who had come out under a contract to work for some years for the man who paid for the journey or anyone to whom he sold the right to command their services . |
| 29 | I paid for the petrol and the mints , and the young chap said : ‘ It 's Geoffrey Boycott sat in that car , is n't it ? ’ |
| 30 | She paid for the Regiment 's presents each Christmas and presented them to the legionnaires . |