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Example sentences for "pay him"

  • But I pay him in proportion to the exertion he makes.

  • I pay him $25, and I go to the talking-machine company and the company does not dare to proceed.

  • Well then, he said, that if I did not like to trouble my father about such a trifle, and yet was determined to pay him, it could be very easily managed.

  • The king could require in war the personal attendance of his vassals, that is, of almost all the landed proprietors; and if they declined the service, they were obliged to pay him a composition in money, which was called a scutage.

  • By the laws of Ethelbert, any one who committed adultery with his neighbor's wife was obliged to pay him a fine, and buy him another wife.

  • The company gathered eagerly round, expecting I would retaliate wittily, or pay him back in his coin of abuse.

  • I was not in a position to pay him back at the moment, yet I made a vow to give the new Mongo a free passage in irons to Cuba before many moons.

  • His letters conveyed the news that Government had voted a thousand pounds for his relief, and were besides to pay him a salary[74].

  • I offered to pay him half of the $500 if he would give up and go home; but he peremptorily declined making any compromise whatever.

  • Between this scene and the time when the anxious Boehmer, having a little bill to meet, beset Madame Campan about his letter and the money the Queen was to pay him, there intervened six months.

  • Rayner felt a sincere compassion for his old messmate, and obtained leave to pay him a visit, anxious to ascertain if there were any extenuating circumstances by which he might obtain a remission of his punishment.

  • But if you promise to pay him, you are bound to do so," observed Bill.

  • Le Duc having communicated his good fortune to Jack and his other friends, and invited them to pay him a visit whenever they could get on shore, took his leave.

  • As soon as the princess understood that the prince of Persia waited for her, she immediately went to pay him a visit.

  • They found the amount to be so considerable, that all the presents which the caliph and Zobeide had given them at their marriage were but just enough to pay him.

  • After promising to pay him well, he returned to his inn.

  • Pay him one to-morrow, and after that, go and visit once a month, without speaking to me, or waiting for my permission.

  • If I had money to pay him to-morrow, I'd insult him on the spot.

  • You must speak to him without--pay him by-and-by.

  • And upon my saunies, Connor, I'd rather any time go up to my neck in wather than meet a man that I owe money to, whin I can't pay him.

  • It was at this period that his old friend Nogher M'Cormick came to pay him a visit; it being the last time, as he said, that he would ever have an opportunity of seeing his face.

  • A stockholder cannot compel the corporation to pay him a percentage of the profits until a dividend has been declared.

  • A promises B to pay him $100 if B will promise to work for him for one month.

  • A promises to sell his dog to B if B will promise to pay him $5.

  • If, however, B in consideration of A's promise to pay him interest at a certain rate after March 1st, extends the time until April 1st, C is discharged.

  • In 1877 Mr. Gye, knowing that I had engaged Gayarre, and well assured that I should not have done so had not Gayarre been a good artist, offered him double what I was to pay him.

  • I had been ready to pay him L7,000 as rent for a single year, but this he would have refused.

  • After ten or twelve days an agent arrived from America who had heard of his success, and offered him L1,000 a month, which was five times what I was to pay him.

  • No matter how many men are over him, or how many men pay him, or fail to pay him, he stands under the wide heaven the one man who is master of the earth.

  • This paper-ticket I give him--for this berth I lie in--does it pay him for it?


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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