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• he paid him to clean the place up;  he paid her off the books and in kind where possible
• This time was most dreadful for Lilian. Thrown on her own resources and almost penniless, she maintained herself and paid the rent of a wretched room near the hospital by working as a charwoman, sempstress, anything.
• The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about[...]and so on. But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention. Partly, this is a result of how online advertising has traditionally worked: advertisers pay for clicks, and a click is a click, however it's obtained.
• she offered to pay the bill;  he has paid his debt to society
• The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again.
• Yet in “Through a Latte, Darkly”, a new study of how Starbucks has largely avoided paying tax in Britain, Edward Kleinbard […] shows that current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate what he calls “stateless income”: […]. In Starbucks’s case, the firm has in effect turned the process of making an expensive cup of coffee into intellectual property.
• It didn't pay him to keep the store open any more.
• to pay attention
• not paying me a welcome
• They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace, explored wherever they were permitted to explore, paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups.
• crime doesn’t pay;   it will pay to wait
• He was allowed to go as soon as he paid.
• He paid for his fun in the sun with a terrible sunburn.
• Many employers have rules designed to keep employees from comparing their pays.
• The skipper Mr. Cooke had hired at Far Harbor was a God-fearing man with a luke warm interest in his new billet and employer, and had only been prevailed upon to take charge of the yacht after the offer of an emolument equal to half a year's sea pay of an ensign in the navy.
• pay toilet