Example sentences of "[vb past] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes they met for lunch or a theatre in London , on neutral ground , and both looked forward to these meetings as if they were occasions of almost illicit pleasure . |
| 2 | In his memoir of the 1960s Ali records how , following the review , Goodwin rang him , they met for lunch , and the literary agent explained that he wanted to start the new paper . |
| 3 | Representatives of the government of Papua New Guinea ( PNG ) and the secessionist Bougainville Revolutionary Army ( BRA ) met for peace talks in Honiara , the capital of the Solomon Islands , on Jan. 22 . |
| 4 | On 3 September they met for dinner at the Day 's Inn on Jeff Davis Highway in Crystal City , Virginia . |
| 5 | It was all wrong and back to front , but no one could say the old baggage lacked for courage . |
| 6 | In May Maureen registered for war work and was directed to a clerical job in an office near Sarah 's . |
| 7 | The following year he registered for study in philosophy and theology at the University of Leyden and , apart from a brief return to Rostock , remained in The Netherlands until he took up a post at the University of Copenhagen in June 1648 . |
| 8 | Eastern Airlines , the sixth-largest airline in the USA , also registered for Chapter 11 protection on Jan. 18 , and all its aircraft were grounded pending a possible sale . |
| 9 | The volume of the utterance may be loud to express anger or whispered for secrecy . |
| 10 | Banks that lent for property at the top of the market would be wrong to bail out near the bottom |
| 11 | How are musical forms and practices appropriated for use by particular classes ? |
| 12 | He choked for air , water gurgling into his ears and fighting to enter his mouth . |
| 13 | When they applied for help with arrears , " The DHSS told me to sell some of the furniture or the telly . |
| 14 | I was not short of students who applied for help in the most distressing of circumstances : mature students with spouses and children , who had been denied housing benefit and income support to which they had previously been entitled ; landlords pressing for rent payments and students with no money to pay ; arrears of rent building up ; poll tax arrears building up ; overdrafts being extended ; electricity supplies being cut off , in some cases to parents and children . |
| 15 | that er , we applied for test of proportionality , the minimum necessary , my Lord this is a , your Lordship 's focus on admission rules which of course different to what we 're concerned with here , admission to the market , erm , and it , it is the minimum necessary to ensure that all those who should be in the market and are capable of competing are in the market . |
| 16 | On Dec. 16 MCC applied for bankruptcy protection under Chapter 11 of the United States code of bankruptcy law and on Dec. 20 the UK High Court placed MCC in administration . |
| 17 | The Melrose saga began earlier this year when he was one of several players , including former Wallaby Mitchell Cox , who applied for reinstatement to play the game . |
| 18 | Geisler applied for probation for Mitchum and a further hearing was set for February . |
| 19 | When parents applied for assistance they were asked to provide general information about the family , including occupations , earnings , rent , and size of accommodation . |
| 20 | They applied for redundancy payments . |
| 21 | When he applied for immigration into Australia he had to undergo a routine medical examination . |
| 22 | " I applied for school uniform grants for the kids , " said an unemployed woman in Barnsley with three children . |
| 23 | I at once applied for leave , which was granted , and set off for Edinburgh on the overnight train . |
| 24 | I applied for leave , and departed from Victoria Station on 15 September 1946 , on the famous Golden Arrow train , which on the other side of the Channel became the Flèche d'or . |
| 25 | I arrived in England and applied for asylum . |
| 26 | From Germany , they travelled by train to Sweden , where he applied for asylum , the first American citizen to do so since the Vietnam War . |
| 27 | On 1 December , the IDA applied for permission for an asbestos waste dump on land it owned at Curraghbinny , an exclusive residential and scenic area of Co . |
| 28 | Mr Richardson applied for outline permission to build the chalets after winning approval for a hotel and golf complex at Humbleton . |
| 29 | He applied for discovery of certain internal police reports . |
| 30 | ‘ To begin with , I worked for the family , pushing the churns round the streets on the milk-cart , but then I got too old for that , and I applied for work with the Dock workers Guild at Jubilee Wharf . ’ |