Example sentences of "[vb pp] to for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Version 9 will include all the specifications that must be adhered to for those designing and implementing 64-bit Sparc technology . |
| 2 | Mr George Henry Quarry , a Belfast solicitor was then applied to for some land at the top of Carrickblacker Road but initially there was no response from him and other possible sites investigated were some ground opposite where James 's Street now stands and land behind where the little Roman Catholic church was later built ( now Pritchard 's Motors ) and near the site of Edenderry Orange Hall . |
| 3 | Agnes first screwed up her face , then she stretched it before she muttered , ‘ That cousin Mary in Durham , the one you have n't spoken to for twelve years , if not longer , or , as I should say , who has n't spoken to you since she married Mr Boston , a man of supposed wealth and position , and got too big for her boots , as you 've often stated ? |
| 4 | Nobody sits at home unless they 've asked to for two or three days . |
| 5 | Successful applicants will be admitted to for one year and membership may be renewed annually on payment of further subscriptions . |
| 6 | Through her time of growing up , Miranda had had to talk so loud to interrupt the brawling , crying , canoodling jag that was her parent 's marriage , to entertain so insistently in order to divert them from the partying , bickering , kiss-and-make-up affair that absorbed them totally , that she had become as deaf to tremors and to nuances as her former games mistress shouting ‘ Bombs Coming Over ’ or ‘ Scrub the Decks ’ through a megaphone in the gym at the dim convent Miranda had been sent to for those three years of her childhood when the family had been in funds . |