Example sentences of "[pron] applied for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Consider , for example , the case of two owners of agricultural land on the periphery of a town , both of whom applied for planning permission to develop for housing purposes — the first being given permission and the second refused on the ground that the site in question was to form part of a green belt . |
| 2 | I applied for the occasional post that I thought might be interesting , but never heard anything back . |
| 3 | I applied for the post and was interviewed by the headmaster , a man of about my own age who was ‘ mad on Puccini ’ , and consequently thrilled to bits when I recognized |
| 4 | They offered not only to plant a tree in my name , if I applied for a policy , but also the choice of a free radio alarm clock or a telephone . |
| 5 | So I applied for my discharge and it was granted . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I applied for membership , but the day approval finally arrived , four years later , was the day we left the valley . |
| 8 | I applied for several and this one came up , that 's all , I did n't choose it particularly . ’ |
| 9 | My dress — I looked like the other people employed in the job I applied for . |
| 10 | It is rather like something that I used to do as a young groundsman coming up through the ranks , when I applied for vacant jobs all over the place , the bigger and more prestigious the place the better , and more often than not without the slightest intention of taking the job if it had been offered ! |
| 11 | I applied for it about six months ago . |
| 12 | I applied for an interview , and shortly afterwards found that I had a new job . |
| 13 | With this in mind , I applied for a post-registration course , and eagerly looked forward to benefiting from a new , challenging and mature approach to nurse education . |
| 14 | " I applied for school uniform grants for the kids , " said an unemployed woman in Barnsley with three children . |
| 15 | It was a big disappointment to me that when I applied for the news editor 's job , I did n't get it . |
| 16 | I applied for a job at Anglia as a news reporter . |
| 17 | No because , I applied for a lot of jobs |
| 18 | And , I applied for loads of jobs and nothing ever came back . |
| 19 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 20 | I applied for parole , and usually you get your answer a couple of weeks before the date you could be going out . |
| 21 | I applied for a research fellowship at Gonville and Caius College ( pronounced Keys ) . |
| 22 | Aye , cos about six month ago there was a job come up in our office for like a trainee assistant manager type , well an assistant to an assistant manager kind of thing so I applied for it and another woman in the office applied for it cos she 's been here for like sixteen years or whatever . |
| 23 | take it in the end but erm anyway I got this diploma and er then I was quite annoyed because erm Social Services then erm pu the Welfare for the Blind was dealt with by the Public Health Department and a vacancy occurred in the Public Health Department for erm Blind Welfare Officer , or at least a Welfare Officer for the Blind and I applied for it and erm , they er did n't make an appointment because they did n't er get in other applications but they di they did n't offer me the appointment . |
| 24 | I applied for a job on Query and got it . |
| 25 | ‘ I got my chemistry degree and like everybody else I applied for whatever jobs were going at the time . |
| 26 | I applied for a place at the Methodist Institution training college in London — and have heard I have been accepted . ’ |
| 27 | And I applied for that job , and I got it . |
| 28 | Before being offered my current job in a family centre , I applied for dozens , and I know at least two rejections were based on the fact that I am a man . |
| 29 | In 1969 , I applied for the post of Senior Lecturer at the new University of Lancaster , in the north of England ( about 240 miles north west of London ) . |
| 30 | I applied for a job and three people turned |