Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [prep] [pers pn] 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 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 .
6 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 .
7 The reasons for this apparent perversity are probably now lost to us for all time .
8 And now accommodation has been provisionally reserved for you for that date .
9 She had n't heard from her for some time .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 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 .
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