Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [pron] [adv] [verb] for " in BNC.

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1 And under the name of Garawand he also applied for a loan of £43,225 to buy the house in Norton , Stockton , in which he lived .
2 Whereas in Northumberland it rarely lasted for a whole day and almost never appeared on consecutive days , in London and Surrey it seemed to shine uninterrupted for weeks at a time .
3 In Britain we often listen for a person 's accent .
4 Although there are over 20 million individual shareholders in Japan they only account for a quarter of the total shares held .
5 That time my father was on the deck giving a dramatic blow by blow account of Dunkirk , which was overheard by a family from Stoke-on-Trent who promptly dived for their life jackets .
6 SDLP lost a seat here as in Armagh which together accounts for the reduction in their representation by two seats as between the Assembly and the Convention .
7 On Saturday she again walked for some hours around and about the tree-lined , wide , clean streets of the spa town with its artistic colonnade and its many curative springs .
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