Pay for
Pay for verb - Have as a guest.
Spend
Spend verb - To hand over or use up in payment.
Both terms in one sentence
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In Dragon Age: Origins, you spend most of the game chasing after Loghain to make him pay for his crimes.
Source: Cry for the Devil -
Max and his friends' upper class and wealthy families pay for their schooling while they spend their time drinking, smoking marijuana, and pulling pranks.
Source: Ivy League for Everyone -
In The Secret of Monkey Island, spend all your coins, one by one, in the soda machine, until you don't have enough to pay for the sword, the shovel and the map.
Source: Unwinnable by Insanity
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