Sentence examples for paid expensive from inspiring English sources

The charges are almost always either subsequently dropped or dismissed in court, but by then the innocent person has been illegally detained, arrested, sometimes jailed, and possibly paid expensive legal fees.

The rest of us could get by in emergencies by paying expensive fees or bribes.

Small businesses waste thousands of hours completing forms, visiting state offices and paying expensive lawyers and accountants.

Not long ago foreign secret services would pay expensive real-life slinky, living breathing honeytraps to bring the country to its knees.

"You don't pay expensive lawyers to work over the Bank Holiday weekend unless your intentions are pretty clear," said a spokesman for the group.

Many mobile phone customers base their buying decisions on whether they will have to pay expensive roaming charges when they travel out of their home area.

Meanwhile, the NHS has to pay expensive locum rates to fill the gaps, and the rewards of investment in training are reaped by another country.

Because they bought into what proved dodgy property investments through a self-invested personal pension (Sipp), they must continue to pay expensive administration charges.

"It is the old question of whether you want to pay expensive rent or buy expensive advertising, to get the brand name out," he said.

Homeowners who have claimed for subsidence on their insurance are stuck paying expensive premiums to existing providers because no other insurers will offer them cover.

Gov.uk has also been built using open source technology, which means we don't have to pay expensive software licensing costs.