Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] to [pers pn] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have not come to us for specific assistance under the know-how fund . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The reasons for this apparent perversity are probably now lost to us for all time . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |