Example sentences of "and [vb past] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He felt like the boy 's father ; he loved and cared for Grégoire as if he were his son . |
| 2 | He told them how morally indefensible was the policy of apartheid , and asked for prayer for Africa . |
| 3 | Some time after this Mrs Meehan wrote to me that her husband was innocent , and asked for assistance in having his case reviewed . |
| 4 | The government has declared a state of emergency and asked for assistance from the US . |
| 5 | But I had informed the police and asked for help even before the doorbell rang . |
| 6 | A mother may set out some crayons and paper or plasticine while she gets on with the ironing but she should expect to be interrupted and asked for help . |
| 7 | Last year , in response to a request from South Africa 's Bishop of Kimberley , three Carmelite nuns in Germany , knowing Darlington 's links with South Africa , contacted the convent and asked for help . |
| 8 | Another letter from the middle school was about a visiting theatre group and asked for money as well as a tear-off slip . |
| 9 | The 14-year-old boy was walking the alsatian along a path between Park Avenue and Penparcau , Aberystwyth , Powys , when the attacker , who was aged about 20 , approached him and asked for money . |
| 10 | A slattern brought a small table for Athelstan to rest his writing tray on , and of course a jug of wine and two goblets , though Athelstan shook his head and asked for water . |
| 11 | But the following day she telephoned a local newspaper , the Sowetan , saying she feared for her life , and asked for protection . |
| 12 | But without doubt the most contentious defector to reach the West was Anatoli Golitsin , who arrived at the office of the CIA 's station chief in Helsinki in Finland in December 1911 and asked for asylum for himself , his wife and daughter . |
| 13 | He was refused entry to Kuwait and asked for asylum in France.President Giscard d'Estaing asked the Shah his views and the Shah made one of the worst mistakes in his reign by agreeing the Khomeini should go to France , He assumed that the obstreperous priest would be les of a threat to him in distant , Christian France than in neighbouring , radical , Islamic country . |
| 14 | In Peking he contacted missionaries and asked for baptism . |
| 15 | If we had wanted that we would have used medical questionnaires to evaluate physical and mental health , listed the facilities and defects in each house , and asked for income and expenditure budgets . |
| 16 | Just to say that erm we 're very keen to see that the Mid Sussex Council has come to the county and asked for guidance and I 'm very pleased also with the response that is er proposed back to them . |
| 17 | The Earl of Warwick , one of the judges , protested and asked for time to produce charters and other evidence so that ‘ we might still enjoy with quietness the possessions of our ancestors which had bin oute of the Forrest for three hundred and thirty yeares ’ . |
| 18 | This practically ruined him but rather than take the easy way out and declare himself bankrupt , he called a meeting of his creditors and asked for time to pay . |
| 19 | The crisis-hit jewellery firm were fined £1,000 for false labelling — and asked for time to pay . |
| 20 | He went to an Indian fortune-teller and asked for advice . |
| 21 | Melissa declined Barney 's offer of wine and asked for mineral water . |
| 22 | There was one occasion when he went into a café and asked for tea and then while he waited he suddenly saw a solution to a theological argument which he had with Leslie Owen the warden , and his waving of hands was so convulsive that the café refused to serve him with the tea . |
| 23 | I see from my files that Simon Murison-Bowie sent you two copies of the Agreement for this tape which required signing on behalf of the University of Toronto and return to us , and asked for confirmation of your tape specification requirements in his letter of 19 February . |
| 24 | With my letter , I sent you two copies of an Agreement that had been drawn up for signature on behalf of AT&T , and asked for confirmation of your tape specification requirements . |
| 25 | It is intended that such a timetable should be updated and agreed for circulation to staff each April . |
| 26 | Substrate was applied to the sections and incubated for 3–5min , resulting in a brown reaction product . |
| 27 | They were composed in the years of the Exclusion crisis , during which Locke 's patron , Shaftesbury , and others , sought to exclude James , then Duke of York , from the succession to the throne , and argued for government by consent and for the right to religious dissent . |
| 28 | While the government broadly supported the United Statesled coalition and the use of force to reverse the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait , the opposition Labour Party was questioned US intentions in the area and argued for pressure to be exerted on Iraq through an intensification of economic sanctions . |
| 29 | During the second month , two unsigned claims were processed and passed for payment , which were then returned to the claimants for signature . |
| 30 | On 1 November 1781 he appeared before a board at the Navy Office , produced the necessary certificates and papers , answered the examining captains ' questions satisfactorily , and passed for lieutenant , the board observing that ‘ he was more than 31 years old ’ , which suggests the lack of a birth certificate . |