Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] for [noun] " 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 | I asked for £75 and was refused , so I refused . |
| 4 | When I arrived at the counter I asked for Katrina . |
| 5 | Wandering from house to house I asked for directions to the ruins of the palace . |
| 6 | On jobs , its almost certain there will be further losses during the next two years , but bear in mind that when I asked for SVS volunteers last September more than 230 people applied . |
| 7 | I asked for Hammond Innes , Frederick Forsyth , Iris Murdoch and Evelyn Waugh . |
| 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 | S I well I asked for questions before , Mr , but erm what is your question ? |
| 11 | So I asked for guns to be issued , and that was done . ’ |
| 12 | I asked for Dr Grant . |
| 13 | So I asked for help ; I did n't like doing it but it seemed necessary . |
| 14 | The way I look at it is this : I asked for help , and they gave it . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I asked for names and addresses so that I might pass on details to the police . |
| 18 | With this , well erm I was er after the first two years when I did n't get a referred lead or recommendation cos I , I had this fear in my mind that if I asked for names , they 'd actually not give them and that they would actually then cancel the policy they 'd taken out with me , I actually thought that |
| 19 | I asked for details of how well they had maintained their new figures or if , in fact , they had n't . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | At last I was able to speak to Judge Kerwin , and I asked for news of my family . |
| 22 | At our first lunch I asked for canneloni to fill myself up . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | And , I applied for loads of jobs and nothing ever came back . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | " I applied for school uniform grants for the kids , " said an unemployed woman in Barnsley with three children . |
| 28 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 29 | I applied for parole , and usually you get your answer a couple of weeks before the date you could be going out . |
| 30 | I applied for membership , but the day approval finally arrived , four years later , was the day we left the valley . |