Example sentences of "[pron] for information " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then went to the Citizen 's Advice Bureau ( CAB ) at Wembley , as my husband had suggested , and asked them for information about how to join a union . |
| 2 | In the nineteenth century , however , those who conducted the research did not really believe that their subjects would tell them the truth reliably if they asked them for information directly , and so they drew inferences about people 's ideas , religious beliefs , political commitments and so on from the type of literature they had on their shelf or the pictures they had on their walls . |
| 3 | Phone them for information . |
| 4 | The extent to which British administrators depended on them for information varied greatly according to the social composition of the district and the competence of the civil servant in charge . |
| 5 | He 's got friends there who 've moved on to the staff , and he reckons he can pump them for information without making any official waves . |
| 6 | If the Hapsburgs occupied Paris and a couple of Austrian soldiers asked you for information about a Frenchman , would you tell them ? ’ |
| 7 | I am writing to you for information about the kind of courses I read about in the article on the Features Page of last week 's Daily Telegraph which gave the address of your organization . |
| 8 | We shall comply promptly with all reasonable requests from you for information about your accounts . |
| 9 | ‘ Ah , but that was when I was only pumping you for information , not giving it to you . |
| 10 | He had time to have a word with everyone and on the occasions when I met him in England he was more than helpful — unlike some of his colleagues in the Press room who pestered you for information when at Leopardstown , then pretended you were from another planet when you went to a big meeting in England . |
| 11 | Nobody ever brought the matter up with Eve ; and as for Mossy Rooney , who had replaced some of the window frames and the guttering , it would have been pointless asking him for information . |
| 12 | ‘ I rely on him for information . |
| 13 | So Schaffer sat with a stack of paperback books from Hamilton 's corner rack , and occasionally tried to catch Hennessy to pump him for information . |
| 14 | Yes , I pay him for information . |
| 15 | He had nothing to give Merymose to take to Kenamun , and the priest-administrator would not thank him for information which cast suspicion on two of the most powerful men in the country . |
| 16 | The centre 's administrator general Marion Julien said museums throughout the world were keeping in daily touch with her for information about the row over the works , which are on loan from the Pushkin Museum in Moscow and the Hermitage in Saint Petersburg . |
| 17 | Was he just making polite conversation with his uninvited guest , or was he pumping her for information ? |
| 18 | The 1958 Act could be interpreted simply in terms of the needs of departments themselves for information , although in practice we do attempt to apply historical selection criteria . |
| 19 | The result was that yesterday they turned on us for information as to the number of men to be dropped , the weight of stores and the mileage and so on , all of which was essential for them to know if they were to fit out the aircraft properly . |