Example sentences of "[not/n't] pay for " in BNC.

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1 In one incident alone near Smolensk , seventy-four persons were arrested for not paying for their journey .
2 Fair value , which drops to 22 on Monday , is the notional premium for buying all Footsie stocks now but not paying for three months , taking into account both dividend payments and interest costs .
3 However , the fact that the futures contract for June settlement continued to trade at a 26-point premium to ‘ fair value ’ ( 23 points — the notional premium for buying all Footsie stocks now , but not paying for two and a half months ) indicates that most pundits see the market making further headway after Easter .
4 I tell you , I 'm not giving you a penny more for clothes , I 'm not paying for any driving lessons when you 're seventeen , I 'm not shelling out for another disco , I 'm not giving you another lift to a party that everyone else in your year 's going to and you 'd be a freak if you missed it .
5 What we decided to do , because I thought that 's what you 'd been pressing for , was to show that as the equivalent affect of , okay , you think you 're making these profits but you 're actually enjoying services that you 're not paying for .
6 ‘ And I 'm not paying for them if they 're not what I want .
7 Russia took 75 per cent ; Moldova and Ukraine would finance in full the troops on their territories and participate in financing joint forces through absolute contributions ; Tajikistan , Kirgizstan and Turkmenistan were not paying for the upkeep of troops on their territory .
8 Understandably , despite such possible complexity , the purchaser will not be interested in the legal semantics of how the contracts are to be transferred but will be interested in two main practical concerns : firstly , in receiving the benefit of the contracts in return for performing the burden and secondly , in not paying for a contract if the purchaser can not benefit from it .
9 It 's true that more people are hanging on to their cars and strangel ; y not paying for their servicing .
10 He claimed the firm had had previous difficulties in getting paid by the council , with one school not paying for five months .
11 Well you 'd think they could because you are not paying for the service are you ?
12 You 're not paying for mine are you ?
13 and there was about that much bacon on the bacon slice , the rest were fat , I says I 'm not paying for that .
14 Which I 'm not paying for any more !
15 You have n't got any choice where we 're going , you 're not paying for it .
16 you 're not paying for that are you ?
17 You see there , there was a er not paying for it , asking about it , the finance committee how very cold it was for the elderly and they sit in there while some get taken home and
18 Why should the Tory party not pay for its own advertising out of party political funds rather than constantly using taxpayers ' money to try to get its message across ?
19 They are undoubtedly right that it has now become clear that the Government will not pay for the expansion it desires at a level which will protect high quality .
20 It was clearly foreseen , though not stated , that these would be drawn mainly from the workhouses , either because the relatives of the dead could not pay for interment , or because they had not been notified of death .
21 Sir , — Both Mr. Newland and Mr. Chandler have referred to my earlier letter on prescription charge exemptions , when I pointed out that five out of six people do not pay for prescriptions .
22 But without it she could not pay for her coffee and salad .
23 Since government did not pay for the expenses of witnesses , this cost also fell on the cattle owner .
24 The DSS will not pay for an ‘ individual ’ grave , so a ‘ common ’ grave ( that 's with companions , either already waiting or pending ) , is what you 'll get .
25 The women remained firm that unless the entire order was completed they would not pay for the hot whiskies .
26 The theory of politics argues , on the supply side , that political parties , in bidding for support , end up by promising more than they can deliver and that , on the demand side , this leads to inflated expectations since the electorate have incentives to vote for increased services because they do not pay for them directly and because there may be little correlation between tax payments and government benefits .
27 The employer does not pay for holidays or sickness and the nurse in turn works at her convenience .
28 The king , however , did not pay for them , not least because he was saving by this means the need to provide the beneficiary with a pension from the exchequer .
29 Parke B. , at p. 630 , concluded that the payment ‘ was not voluntary , because , in effect , the defendant told the plaintiff 's clerk , that if he did not pay for certificates when he wanted to make extracts , he should not be permitted to search . ’
30 Second , the electorate will have every incentive to vote for more government services because they do not pay for them directly and individual tax payments may bear little ( if any ) relationship to the benefits which they may derive from such services .
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