Example sentences of "[vb past] for [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the post of Missioner at Warrington became vacant , he applied for it at the age of 38 , and he remained at Warrington until his retirement thirty years later . |
| 2 | Wherever we travelled amongst the islands we would collect rare and exotic shells which became for us like fragile clues in a paper-chase of changing life-forms as we moved across historical as well as zoographical boundaries . |
| 3 | Mother cared for him with a gentleness born out of genuine relief at still having him to care for . |
| 4 | ‘ He 's old enough to have respect for one who cared for him during his teenage years . |
| 5 | Before kiln operator Steve Kelly died at 55 , he asked for help to be given to the team of Macmillan nurses who cared for him in his last months . |
| 6 | She knew he cared , he showed it , but he would n't say the things she wanted to hear — that he cared for her to the exclusion of all others , and wanted her in his life to the exclusion of all others . |
| 7 | Born in Plymouth , Devon , to a poor stonemason , also called John and his wife Elizabeth , John Kitto was a sickly lad who cared for nothing but books . |
| 8 | But the moment the military dictatorship resorted to armed aggression against British subjects the radical student protester , who cared for nothing but his ideals and for justice , freedom and equality , unhesitatingly sided with the invaders and began to protest , not against them , but against his own government 's attempts to restore the freedom , democratic rights and civil liberty of those who had lost them ! |
| 9 | And look at her … turning soft with admiration for a man who cared for nothing but his ambition . |
| 10 | After the winner I rode for him at York . ’ |
| 11 | I had a fair idea as to who had done it , and I passed on my suspicions about so-and-so and so-and-so , and asked for something to be done about it . |
| 12 | At a function in Bucharest the British Ambassador asked for something from home . |
| 13 | We asked for nothing but a few gestures — |
| 14 | Being a child when the state was publicly engaged in making children healthy and literate was a support against my particular circumstances , its central benefit being that , unlike my mother , the state asked for nothing in return . |
| 15 | She seemed uncertain of her English , and asked for everything to be repeated . |
| 16 | I once specially asked for him to be there and then demanded to know at the rehearsal who was this man sitting with the flutes . |
| 17 | His mother , unable to find the strength to battle against him , wrote to the school and asked for him to be excused . |
| 18 | A week later the labour master was convicted ; he was fined ten shillings and costs , although the solicitor who was defending him asked for him to be sentenced to a term of imprisonment ( in which case , an appeal could have been lodged ) . |
| 19 | I was told that the manager had gone to lunch , and when I asked for him to be bleeped I was told again that he had gone to lunch and that he had left his bleep at the switchboard — all in a tone that suggested that this was standard behaviour . |
| 20 | He asked for them to be clearly marked , packed in damp moss and sent to Lord Cornbury 's by Oxford Chapel , ‘ where I am to be around generally any morning before ten if you ever have time to call ’ . |
| 21 | One evening he asked for one with his coffee , which I gave him . |
| 22 | Zborowski supplied the charcoal , paints , canvas , and brushes ; he also hired the models ( Modigliani insisted that they must be paid three to five francs an hour ) and any accessories , although the painter rarely asked for anything but the human figure for his work . |
| 23 | I asked for you to be brought here to do a specific job . |
| 24 | Repetitive enough to appeal to Matthew , 4 , who asked for it at bedtime four nights running , and with sophisticated touches appreciated by William , 6 , normally a boy of the He Man persuasion . |
| 25 | I asked for it at the suggestion of my cousin Sarah , who was slightly older than me and whom I greatly admired . |
| 26 | The report on the projected sales for the next quarter , he asked for it at the last meeting , it 's okay . |
| 27 | I asked for it on Wednesday , she 's gone me one , she put in this bag and |
| 28 | So far I 'd managed to avoid giving him the exact address , but now he asked for it with a determined note in his voice — " Just in case I 'm down that way " and I was forced to invent one , praying that he 'd never check up on it . |
| 29 | The Prospect Inn has two of its decorative lino floors intact , although the owners , Whitbread , destroyed the original pole sign outside when the tenants asked for it to be repaired . |
| 30 | Bright too had misgivings in this area , particularly about size of the single conductor , and asked for it to be enlarged . |