Sentence examples for paid tom from inspiring English sources

Metro bought the screen rights for two hundred and fifty thousand dollars and paid Tom a hundred thousand to write the script, though the movie was never made.

But he paid Tom twelve thousand five hundred dollars for the loft conversion, approximately one-eighth of what it would have cost with a New York contractor.

The strategy paid off when Toms saved par, making a 12-foot putt to win the tournament.

The repetitive window imagery reminds us that we are all peeping toms, paying to look.

I suppose I could become one of those northern Uncle Toms of the voiceover world, paid to sound down to earth and unthreatening (ie thick): "We can offer yer some of t' best mortgage deals around".

Federal Highway Administration emergency funds paid for the tunnel, which is named for the man who secured initial financing —Tom Lantos, a congressman who died in 2008 — but which many residents call "the people's tunnel".

And they have no greater moral obligation than do the highly paid Tom Brokaw or Dan Rather to help a TV network keep down its costs.

Staley recently paid Tom Stoppard two hundred and twenty-five thousandollarsrs for sixty-two linear feet of his detritus, including a report card from 1944, when he was seven.

For each dollar he got paid, Tom Hanks movies averaged $12 of gross income.

For each dollar he got paid, Tom Cruise movies averaged $11 of gross income.

The U.S. attorney's office has also subpoenaed records from the Central Basin district, including documents involving a district contract that paid Tom Calderon more than $750,000 in consulting fees since 2004 for political and legislative advice.