Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [prep] [pron] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , he can continue at that level of a hundred and ninety but he 's obviously going to have to pay more , because he 's only paid for it for ten years , or he can reduce it down to the original amount . |
| 2 | If you sent your work to a publisher and have not heard from them for two months , you should write to ask them whether or not they intend to publish it . |
| 3 | His father had even telephoned his ex-wife to tell her about what had happened and she had then spoken to Tony , who had not heard from her for some months . |
| 4 | They have not come to us for specific assistance under the know-how fund . |
| 5 | His last sexual encounter before meeting Angela had been four months previously and Angela had not slept with anyone for nine months since breaking up with her previous boy-friend with whom she had been going out tor a year . |
| 6 | For instance , if he has money of the client in his hands not entrusted to him for any specific purpose , there is nothing in the section to prevent his retaining the amount due to him out of that money . |
| 7 | A 19-year-old single girl took an overdose of tablets after claiming to be in love with a priest — despite the fact she had not spoken to him for four years . |
| 8 | The reasons for this apparent perversity are probably now lost to us for all time . |
| 9 | And now accommodation has been provisionally reserved for you for that date . |
| 10 | She had n't heard from her for some time . |
| 11 | She had n't written to me for several weeks and I was beginning to wonder what stage her marriage plans had arrived at , but was n't at all prepared for the news that greeted me . |
| 12 | There is one woman who regularly gazes across to her old home at Wouldham and if her brother is in his garden can see him plainly , but has n't spoken to him for several years . |
| 13 | One of the thousands — Wotai 's is part of T'zin 's tuman , but they have n't served with him for several years , and they were always a bit leery of him . |
| 14 | The official table of appointments in 1779 for the college of foreign affairs , which lasted until it was slightly modified by Catherine 's son Paul in 1800 , provided for each mission abroad to have two students regularly attached to it for these purposes . |