It's not as though I can't afford to pay him market price and more.
The man could not afford to pay, and yet he had never needed his wife more.
Your parents can't afford to pay for a new bed.
She cannot afford to pay someone to stay with her mother.
Because we can't afford to pay them a moment longer!
I'll work hard and then we can afford to pay more.
We cannot even afford to pay for air that our children can go out and play.
They just couldn't afford to pay that kind of money.
When I saw what they could afford to pay, that didn't seem too hard to understand.
I asked my mother how we could ever afford to pay for this.