Sentence examples for paid do from inspiring English sources
They key is treading the line between 'demanding pay' (don't) and explaining why you ought to be paid (do).
People are badly paid, do appalling jobs they won't leave for fear of ending up on the dole.
So if, for instance, public servants are open to bribery because their wages aren't being paid, do we target the servant or the paymaster?
Ministers reaching out to the hard-working low paid do not make a convincing case for saying that their "national living wage" reforms will compensate for cuts in what used to be called the social wage – benefits and services – elsewhere.
The rarest of all possible — Jesus Christ, you've ordered your drink and paid; do I really have to stand here for another forty-five seconds while you repack your purse, the contents of which you've spilled out on the counter like you're setting up a fucking yard sale or something?
"But I would not have thee, reader," Dante's turning to us in an apostrophe, as he has done before, "fall away from good resolve for hearing how God wills that the debt be paid; do not dwell on the form". He's telling us not to care about the images as such "of the torment, think of what follows, think that at worst it cannot go beyond the great Judgement". He sort of is making a preemptive strike.
The advances we were paid didn't justify it.
Total costs were defined as the total claims paid; claims that were not paid did not contribute to total costs.
Those who can afford to pay do so.
