deserve the reward

He deserved a small reward for all his hard work.

After all my hard work, I deserve a little reward, don't you think?

Your song has moved us all and you well deserve a liberal reward!

I didn't do anything to deserve a reward like this.

Such enterprise in the cause of justice deserved prompt reward.

Also, they deserve a reward too, for a body in the box they got last month.

That much hard work deserves a reward, she thought.

If for no other reason, he deserved a reward of some kind, but there was another reason, an important one.

She deserved a reward for holding up so well.

"The sort of virtue that deserves a reward - like this!"