The debaucheries that took place behind closed doors in the rest of the city were performed openly in the Desert, and made to pay a profit.

Your ventures into uncharted technology are paying a handsome profit for your species.

They acknowledged that they had to pay their own investors a profit but said that they were in no hurry to do so.

"If they even thought they had a chance, they never would have paid such a profit," he said.

It most be the case if you're paying a profit to the sub-contractor.

This, under the conditions of the boom, paid a high profit, from which the hotel-owner collected a certain cut.

I can count on one hand the number of lucky discoveries that paid a profit in the last eighty years.

We'll expand the company and I'll get my share, unless somebody wants to buy up this interest and pay us a handsome profit.

Abercrombie said that her monthly boxing shows in a 4,200-seat arena in Houston have begun to pay a profit.

The Government also abolished interest payments, but banks pay a "profit" to depositors instead.