Example sentences of "[vb past] for public [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Detectives in Northwich yesterday appealed for public help in catching the pair . |
| 2 | The African Institution , when the time came for public agitation , was unfitted for the task because of its direction by ‘ men of rank and high position ’ . |
| 3 | Largely at Mr Shillington 's expense , the unfinished church was completed and opened for public worship in 1802 . |
| 4 | In 1912 she was elected as a Labour councillor in the London borough of Kensington , where she pressed for public provision of baby clinics , school meals , improved council housing , employment schemes , and prohibition of sweated labour . |
| 5 | Reagan hammered away at themes which he had been developing for some years and which would be wheeled out every time he ran for public office . |
| 6 | Some who had failed to get out of the way in time bore the scars like war wounds or medals which they paraded for public admiration . |
| 7 | If he hoped for public sympathy from his revelations about the affair and marriage , he was very wrong . |