Example sentences of "who [vb past] for " in BNC.
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| 31 | He also dealt with the many petitioners who asked for favours or for help . |
| 32 | In Madrid workers who asked for union elections were sacked . |
| 33 | Will the Minister confirm that in the summer he met a group from Derbyshire county council who asked for £140 million , spread over the next three years , to get rid of all outstanding repairs and make necessary improvements ? |
| 34 | The delay was with the approval of District Council at the request of the developer , who asked for time to consider if Hill could be improved . |
| 35 | Of 1200 families who asked for help in 1991 , 56 percent of marriages are breaking down , 55 percent are depressed , 39 percent are drinking too much , and one in five is abusing their partner . |
| 36 | Another one who got out is a doctor who translated for me . |
| 37 | The late Miss Pepper , who lived for some years at The Bield , spoke of the ‘ throwing up ’ of fleeces during clipping to a helper on the gallery . |
| 38 | In the entrance hall of he present church the 20 bronze plaques commemorate both old and young — from Desmond William Green , who lived for 6 weeks , to many who died in the fullness of age . |
| 39 | For instance , this year there will be a film marking the centenary of Leo Walmsley , the novelist who lived for many years at Robin Hood 's Bay . |
| 40 | The story of Hereward was later popularised by the novelist Charles Kingsley ( 1819–1875 ) , who lived for some years at Barnack Rectory , about four miles to the south-east of Stamford . |
| 41 | We know that Lethieullier was also interested in anatomy , for in 1734 he had offered to the Royal Society three infants preserved in spirit , ‘ … of which one Elizabeth Baggs , a hard labouring woman in Oxford , was delivered at one birth in 1714 ’ and who lived for but a few hours afterwards . |
| 42 | A neighbour at his home in Southend , Essex , said : ‘ He was a smashing lad who lived for the Army . |
| 43 | Bottcher Strawalde is an artist who lived for several decades in the shadow of the Berlin Wall ( the film was discovered or rediscovered by Parisians a month ago at the Jeu de Paume ) . |
| 44 | A powerful figure in Ragusa was the Benedictine friar Mavro Vetranović , who was born in 1482 and who lived for over eighty years . |
| 45 | A contemporary of Gundulić was Junije Palmotić ( 1606–57 ) , a Ragusan noble who lived for a time in Bosnia , and who drew upon the Slav folk tales as well as on contemporary Italian and ancient classical traditions for the abundant outpouring of songs , satires , verse epics and dramas which he composed . |
| 46 | Most of Rory 's pals in London were in the International Marxist Croup , but here he was ; wandering the hills with an upper class dingbat who just happened to be married to his sister and who lived for huntin' , shootin' and fishin' ( and seemed to spend the absolute minimum amount of time in his castle with his wife ) , and who had just last year rationalised half the work force in the glass factory out of a job . |
| 47 | Aislabie , who lived for most of his adult life at Lee Place , Eltham , Kent , and at East Park Place , Regent 's Park , died at this latter residence 2 June 1842 . |
| 48 | And all the time you were n't really there , you were somewhere else entirely , and the funniest part of it was that you ended up looking like a pro , like a model who lived for these moments in the public eye . |
| 49 | An inquest has heard that a baby boy , who lived for less than an hour , could have died because of injuries caused by forceps used during his birth . |
| 50 | On the one hand , there were those who argued for a simple causal relationship between education and security in the labour-market . |
| 51 | This quest for control of resources caused a row in the London Borough of Newham last week when a council recommendation to fund a refugee centre was — unsuccessfully in the end — opposed by Muslim councillors , who argued for a Muslim centre instead . |
| 52 | Even within the non-union camp , the British idea of a loose grouping of European states in close association with the United States faced opposition from those who argued for a ‘ third force , essentially a cooperative European security arrangement without American participation : General de Gaulle had already made it clear in 1946 that he favoured this path . |
| 53 | The French objective was spelled out more clearly in November by Couve de Murville who argued for a complete overhaul of the Community institutions , in effect implying a revision of the heart of Rome . |
| 54 | I was always the one who argued for equal ages at Ladymont . |
| 55 | Many look to those classical theorists , such as J. S. Mill and Jean-Jacques Rousseau , who argued for a participatory system of democracy where citizens are sovereign . |
| 56 | Such a view was challenged in the middle of this century by Robert Walcott , who argued for a more sophisticated understanding of the nature of the party structure under William and Anne . |
| 57 | The conference was marked by a split between the USA , Soviet Union and Saudi Arabia on the one hand , who resisted the imposition of specific emissions cuts , and the remaining Western countries , including Europe , Japan and Australia , on the other , who argued for the adoption of a freeze on C02 emissions at present levels by the year 2000 . |
| 58 | To see Portillo as the chief axeman even sent shudders down the spine of some Tory back-benchers who argued for keeping large areas of the welfare state out of the Government 's review , particularly health and pensions . |
| 59 | Appeals : If planning permission is refused , the person who applied for it can ask the Department of the Environment to reconsider the decision . |
| 60 | Millions who applied for the minimum 100 shares in the great water sell-off are likely today to be told their applications are being met in full despite a huge oversubcription to the £5.24billion privatisation . |