Sentence examples for there were paid from inspiring English sources

First, during the tumult of her father's government, she studied at Boston University (she rejects accusations that her expenses there were paid out of public funds).

The teachers in his boarding-house there were paid with IOUs that carried interest if held long enough.

Instead, there were paid apprenticeships and structured training programmes, sometimes oppressive and stifling compared to the open-ended experiences of the luckiest or most able of today's interns, but more egalitarian: parental financial support or personal connections were much less essential for the aspiring young professional.

In local papers, there were paid articles about the coming development funded by the LNG project.

In the previous three presidential election cycles, there were paid activists who chased candidates around New Hampshire to get them on the record on the marijuana issue.

Moreover there were paid employees, often including a private chaplain or confessor, a major domo, governesses, secretary, archivist, accountant, librarian, and innumerable lower servants, such as a porter to ring a bell a prescribed number of times according to the rank of an approaching guest.

Executives there "are paid as part of a partnership," Mr. Mirante said.

But five years in the majors, and more time striving to get there, are paying off now.

Somebody out there is paying $2.70 for it.

And most reassuringly, it showed that fair numbers of people out there were paying attention.

Some entrepreneurs said there were paying too many taxes to hire talent in France.