Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] for [noun sg] " 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 | Imagine my amazement when , on my first day in the new set-up , I found that everyone fought for attention by dramatizing every event . |
| 3 | Mass screening is not feasible , but targeting groups at high risk and asking them to attend for screening is perfectly plausible . |
| 4 | When the kids are really young , it 's no use expecting them to wait for Christmas Day — and two four-month-old Siberian tiger cubs at Howletts animal park , Canterbury , are no exception . |
| 5 | Feeding all the chicks equally in a poor season might well lead to all of them dying for lack of adequate nourishment . |
| 6 | For instance , although we are not self-sufficient in milk products , British dairy farmers have quotas imposed on them to compensate for French and German over-production . |
| 7 | But I 'd just like everyone to know for Daddy 's sake that he had nothing to do with it . |
| 8 | But this time I asked for Nurse Sally , the hyperactive Mrs Cody 's minder . |
| 9 | I mean I asked for cream when I came here . |
| 10 | So I asked for help ; I did n't like doing it but it seemed necessary . |
| 11 | The way I look at it is this : I asked for help , and they gave it . |
| 12 | If I asked for money from my husband he would talk of all the expenses , of how much it cost the family to keep me . |
| 13 | As for Vivian ( Lord ) Bowden I can only report that he once offered me a job in what was to become UMIST and was particularly accommodating when I asked for time to think about it . |
| 14 | In the motorway restaurant I asked for tea and wholemeal toast , and saw the usual look of incomprehension on the face of the girl behind the counter . |
| 15 | At last I was able to speak to Judge Kerwin , and I asked for news of my family . |
| 16 | At our first lunch I asked for canneloni to fill myself up . |
| 17 | And thirdly there 's a meeting at Stansted Airport of the Committee tomorrow and I wrote and said so to the Committee and said could we discuss this with the Committee tomorrow and again I asked for information to be available to the public and particularly to local Councils so they could alter the situation . |
| 18 | I enjoyed thoroughly my half-hour with Sousa for he was the most genial of hosts , but when I asked for confirmation of the Samuel Ostrander story he only smiled broadly , shaking his head . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | " I applied for school uniform grants for the kids , " said an unemployed woman in Barnsley with three children . |
| 21 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 22 | I applied for parole , and usually you get your answer a couple of weeks before the date you could be going out . |
| 23 | I applied for membership , but the day approval finally arrived , four years later , was the day we left the valley . |
| 24 | Right the what else do I want for Christmas , er well |
| 25 | family house , but I mean for space and that sort of |
| 26 | Money is tight so we need to be quite clear on I mean for instance I mean the seats have been recovered you know people smoking in the seats when they should n't be smoking and putting they 're putting their cigarette 's out on the floor I do n't know |
| 27 | and within the last say twenty five years there 's been a dramatic change in the young people 's way of thinking , maybe more of them have gone to university than they did the previous twenty five years and that there is such a difference now than there was that I mean for instance if there was a war there would n't , there would be far more conscientious objectors than there ever was before far more than erm young man saying no I 'm going to fight for my country , be patriotic I do n't think you would find , for instance , the youth of this country so patriotic as they was in the last war , your country needs you . |
| 28 | I mean for instance is a national account at do any business with us , do they ? |
| 29 | erm if if like I mean for instance we were n't clear about what we were talking about |
| 30 | And er you know he was I mean for instance at Salisbury Park he probably did n't mean anything but on Saturday when I was saying goodbye to him he said now I hope there 'll be somebody here at ten past ten to open this church tomorrow . |