Sentence examples for were pay from inspiring English sources

Jordan said his two most common instructions were "pay attention" and "stop playing around".

It was also a time of recession, and the firm had to contract; there were pay cuts and layoffs.

Mr Williams, from Holyhead on Anglesey, north Wales, owned four mobile telephones, two of which were "pay as you go".

The staff bonus - a key profit-sharing element of the participative concept - was cancelled until the mid-1950s, and there were pay cuts in 1952.

There probably were pay increases in low-wage jobs as well, he said, because low unemployment has forced employers to pay more than the minimum wage.

Concessions for the 2014 football World Cup in Brazil are £15, while there were "pay your age" for some 2012 Olympic events but not for the blue-riband ones, such as 100m final night.

Yet strangely there were pay-offs.

Of the 44, two were pay-what-you-wish and four carried a charge of $7 or less.

Mr. Kaplan also said the F.T.C. has never alleged that Lipitor, Plavix or Effexor XR were "pay-for-delay" cases.

But then, there were pay-per-view customers who groused when, in 1988, Tyson needed only ninety-one seconds to brutalize Michael Spinks.

A third of the mortgages were pay-option loans that allowed borrowers to make less than the interest payment on the loan by adding the deferred payments to the principal amount of the loan.