Example sentences of "[been] pay for " in BNC.
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| 1 | In some sense Angela may have been paying for the assets — they had assets valued at £600,000 then , most of it in the lease on the building . |
| 2 | I 've discovered who has been paying for my education . |
| 3 | If Ebert had been paying for Axel 's debauchery , the chances were that he was behind the death of the girl . |
| 4 | The , the direct debits that you 've been paying for years but you 're not sure where they go to , that sort of thing ? |
| 5 | By the end of the " thirties , Aunt Tossie wondered for how many years she had been paying for interesting yearlings , and with very uninteresting results . |
| 6 | Gloucestershire clothiers in 1756 " laid the chain four or five yards longer on the bar " and stopped altogether an allowance of two shillings the price which they had been paying for " stopping " ( repairing ) the cloth . |
| 7 | It was revealed in August that Wiltshire Social Services have been paying for him to stay at his grandparents ' house on the Costa Blanca . |
| 8 | A council that 's been paying for a fourteen-year-old criminal to stay in Spain has been criticised in court . |
| 9 | I 've been paying for me petrol with me money me family allowance . |
| 10 | He said he had been paid for the picture , but admitted that ‘ in order to entice bidders ’ he had agreed with Sotheby 's that payment would be spread over three instalments . |
| 11 | She knows from home that many trains do not run because thousands of peasants have not been paid for hauling wood to the engine fuel-dumps for the whole of 1920–1 , and so have refused to carry on . |
| 12 | On the Moscow Petrograd line workers reported in the middle of February that they had not been paid for all January ; in the Caucasus the backlog in August stretched back to October 1921 . |
| 13 | These imports have to be paid for and what is interesting — and why manufacturing is vital to us — is that over the past hundred years , if not longer , seventy per cent of these imports have been paid for by the export of British manufactured goods . |
| 14 | He had been paid for by his country of origin — reared and raised as capitalist underdevelopment had willed it for the labour markets of Europe . ’ |
| 15 | Columbia 's recent spending spree has partly been paid for by Sony . |
| 16 | ‘ Some of our members are owed nothing , some have been overpaid and some have not yet been paid for the 1990 harvest , ’ said Mr Corbett . |
| 17 | They have not been paid for aerial installation work which BSB had promised to subsidise . |
| 18 | A surrender value may not be available if premiums have been paid for less than two years . |
| 19 | A paid-up policy is only available if premiums have been paid for three years and the reduced sum is £400 or more . |
| 20 | J. H.E.P. is cheap to produce , once the cost of the dam , the power station and the cables for distribution of the electricity have been paid for . |
| 21 | The preoccupations of this text are most readily explained on the view that , to bar missio , value had to have been paid for an object under trust . |
| 22 | He had heard that forty pounds a year had been paid for a girl to be looked after in the asylum of Dr Perfect in West Malling . |
| 23 | Jalhousie is an all-inclusive resort which means that when you arrive everything has already been paid for . |
| 24 | Although gays continue to be present in these organisations in large numbers , it is interesting to see what price has been paid for continued government funding . |
| 25 | Selling goods that have not been paid for appears to need redress . |
| 26 | The fact that goods have not been paid for does not prevent ownership in them passing to the purchaser unless , of course , they are subject to a properly communicated and valid retention clause . |
| 27 | A consignment of vital arms for the war with the accursed President Sadeq of Iraq had been paid for by Teheran , to be delivered by ship . |
| 28 | Our new £250,000 maintenance depot at Churston has been paid for out of revenue as well as footbridge repairs at Churston , a new signalling system and major works at Kingswear station . |
| 29 | The nursing advertisement would have been paid for by the DoH . |
| 30 | The army itself seems unsure of this proposition , perhaps because it is waiting to see who is most likely to meet its wage bill : many soldiers have not been paid for months . |