Example sentences of "[was/were] pay off " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reagan was ecstatic and Weir was paraded before the media at the White House to demonstrate how the president 's firm Middle East policies were paying off . |
| 2 | W those with incomes below £40 a week , only 21 per cent were paying off credit transactions currently , compared with 45 per cent with incomes between £40 and £79 a week , 58 per cent between £80 and £124 a week , and 57 per cent over £125 . |
| 3 | As usual his tactics were paying off . |
| 4 | Then we 'd draft reports , prepare maps , collect photographs , collate lists of growers and traffickers , plot their relationships , determine which illegal ports they were using and who they were paying off , make eight copies of everything and finally send it up the street to the embassy . |
| 5 | In fact , when all his debts were paid off , the money was quickly spent and he soon found himself waiting to collect his $55 a week on the unemployment line at 75 East 13th Street , where he happened to be caught by an eagle-eyed Life photographer before the film 's release . |
| 6 | British seamen in the US deserted in droves , alarming the new British government and bringing about a revived dialogue not only on seamen 's complaints about the inadequacy of British pay , the constantly recurring problems of loss of wages and effects when torpedoed and the inroad made by railway fares when they were paid off from diverted ships , but also on the dangerous state of mind of seamen who were incensed by the conviction that they were constantly subject to neglect , mishandling and coercion . |
| 7 | Every one of those men who went in the forces , who lived to tell the tale , was given their jobs back when they came back , because their jobs were replaced by women during the war , drivers and conductors , they were replaced by women and as the men came back , so the women were paid off , so everybody who came back from the war was given their job back . |
| 8 | A company director recently asked that he be allowed to plough a £250,000 tax liability into the business while debts were paid off in instalments . |
| 9 | A liquidator was called in on March 25 1905 , and finally in the August all 600 men ( at the company 's height it had employed 800 ) were paid off and sent home . |
| 10 | Yet the people who were paid off seem to have disappeared from the jobs market . ’ |
| 11 | You got a few months and then you were paid off you were back on the dole . |
| 12 | It was so quiet , but Dr Rolleston 's good training was paying off . |
| 13 | The waiting in the wings was paying off . |
| 14 | Their torches barely penetrated the gloom , but they could have laid the charges by feel in complete darkness : all their training was paying off . |
| 15 | Over the last year he had worked hard to create an image for himself and it was paying off . |
| 16 | She looked the place over while Josie was paying off the cab . |
| 17 | An hour later , when she was paying off her taxi outside the house , the sun , as though to make amends , was breaking through the cloud in a watery way , bathing the red Victorian brick in a soft bland light . |
| 18 | The Cranwell tennis coaching I had received was paying off and my rugger was improving . |
| 19 | One was to pay off Vikings . |
| 20 | Yet that was paid off in December 1880 . |
| 21 | In July 1961 a new manse was bought in Margretta Park for £4100 ; the debt was paid off by 1963 . |
| 22 | IBM UK Ltd is likely to underwrite the construction by Mimtec Ltd , an electronics manufacturer owned by Murray International Holdings Plc of a new plant in Gourock , a few miles from IBM 's Greenock personal computer factory : the plant would employ about 400 people assembling personal computers under contract to IBM ; according to the Financial Times , some £9m of the cost of the plant would be met by an enterprise trust , with the rest from grants ; IBM would ultimately take over the plant when the trust was paid off . |
| 23 | The original mortgage was paid off and the balance invested in the business . |
| 24 | And as I I recall on a Saturday morning I used to have to take the er one and sixpence each Saturday back to this House , and they used to issue us a little receipt and I remember my father keeping all those receipts until it was paid off . |
| 25 | The time you done three days you was paid off . |
| 26 | In 1763 he was paid off and two years later he embarked for India . |
| 27 | For they 'd no work you see and the staff there was paid off . |
| 28 | He was paid off eventually , supposedly on medical grounds , ’ he said . |
| 29 | The ‘ Dolphin ’ was paid off in Sheerness in 1896 and after her engines had been removed she became a seagoing training ship . |
| 30 | He no longer needed a tutor : Walahfrid was paid off with the abbacy of Reichenau , where he could help hold Alemannia against Louis the German . |