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Usage examples of pays.

I should, unless he pays me first, otherwise he would be punting with my money.

I have a Christian cook, and my wife pays a good deal of attention to the cooking.

I have to buy the tapers and he pays me, and every time he has one it is noted down.

I am not surprised that everything is so dear in the city where you are, for at Venice also one pays dearly and everything is priced beyond reach.

It always pays to know the men who have the courage of their convictions.

The duke who has Wednesdays pays her rent, Count Thursday pays her milliner, Marquis Friday stocks her wine cellar, and so on.

And I gather that none of the rest of Paris pays much attention to anything that happens out in that eighteenth arrondissement.

When a man pays 100s a dozen for his champagne, and then gives it to guests like Lord Mongrober, who are not even expected to return the favour, then that man ought to be allowed to talk about his wine without fear of rebuke.

You see, the government has reduced the amount of interest it pays on the consolidated funds I have.

Of course, she makes me work very hard but at least she pays me something.

Morphew pays twelve for a long, five for a small long, and two for a small.

And so Sir Parceval pays no poor-rates and gets his pauper labour paid for by other paritches.

When it comes right down to it, no corporation or business really pays taxes.

The check goes to the corporation, which then pays a salary to the lawyer, from which Social Security and Medicare taxes are withheld.

When a consumer pays for a product in a country that has instituted a VAT system, he has no real idea how much tax he is paying to the federal government.