Sentence examples for collecting a check from inspiring English sources
When her boyfriend proposed and she decided to call off the trip to start planning her wedding, she thought that collecting a check would be just a formality.
— For weeks, John and Kathy Matthews have agonized over the choice: accept $818,000 in a lump sum from General Motors to buy out Mr. Matthews's pension or keep collecting a check of $4,854 a month.
"There is a complete disconnect between thinking about building a business and then thinking about, very much at the later stage, actually collecting a check," she says.
On the other hand, if you merely purchase a single family home and rent it out, collecting a check once a month, the activity may very well not rise to the level of a trade or business.
You certainly have to be a fierce competitor just like the rest of these guys and not let it weaken your spirit any that you're just here collecting a check," he said.
"They knew that I was not just there to collect a check, but to really help them answer their questions".
An insurance company's actuaries took their best guess on your life expectancy while you hoped to outwit them and collect a check into your 90s.
Mr. Ross and his family came out of hiding today to collect a check for half of the record $363 million prize.
"We teach men and women to see their work as not just where they collect a check, but actually as their calling in life," he says.
