Example sentences of "[vb past] for [noun sg] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On 3 September they met for dinner at the Day 's Inn on Jeff Davis Highway in Crystal City , Virginia . |
| 2 | Banks that lent for property at the top of the market would be wrong to bail out near the bottom |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 4 | Further honours awaited him at Bologna , where he applied for membership of the Accademia Filarmonica . |
| 5 | Particular controversy surrounded the disability scheme , known as WAO , under which 900,000 people ( or more than twice the number of unemployed ) , who were classified as too disabled to work , received 70 per cent of their last salary until they qualified for receipt of the state pension at 65 . |
| 6 | Forty patients who qualified for admission to the study ( Tables I and II ) were randomly assigned to receive either omeprazole ( 20 mg twice daily ) ( Antra , Astra Chemicals , Wedel/Holstein , Germany ) before meals and amoxicillin suspension ( 500 mg four times daily ) ( Amoxypen suspension , Grünenthal , Stolberg , Germany ) before meals and at bedtime for two weeks ( group I ) or bismuth subsalicylate ( 600 mg three times daily ) ( Jatrox , Röhm Pharma , Weiterstadt , Germany ) before meale , metronidazole ( 400 mg three times daily ) ( Clont 400 , Bayer , Leverkusen , Germany ) and tetracycline ( 500 mg three times daily ) ( Hostacylkin 500 , Hoechst , Frankfurt , Germany ) after meals , and ranitidine ( 300 mg at night ) for two weeks ( group II ) . |
| 7 | What passed for reality on the discworld reasserted itself with a rush of sound . |
| 8 | In the meantime , Improv has been ported to Microsoft Corp 's Windows 3.1 , slated for release by the end of the year . |
| 9 | He had felt the power of his position when he had taken a bottle to the room of any major and propositioned for information on the talk in the mess when he , the KGB 's ears , was not present . |
| 10 | To her relief , Elinor was not slumped on the floor ; deathly white , she clung for support to the silver brocade hangings of her bed . |
| 11 | They asked for money for the child 's family . |
| 12 | ‘ We asked for permission during the day and could n't get it , ’ Vincent protested . |
| 13 | When the landlord 's agents and the militia arrived , the tenants offered the whole of next year 's rent in advance if only Mrs. Pedelty would leave them at peace ; it had taken half an hour to get word to her of this offer and to bring back her refusal Then they asked for compensation for the land they had cleared and she sent back to say if they persisted in the claim she would sue for dilapidation and waste . |
| 14 | He asked for prayer about the journey to Jerusalem , knowing the tensions that existed between the Christians who had been of the Jewish faith , and those who were converted Gentiles . |
| 15 | Putting aside what does not concern us here , cases where the petitioner asked for redress against the King himself , we may note two kinds of cases where this extraordinary relief is asked for : |
| 16 | We took it up with the Education Officer who asked for information about the family . |
| 17 | I enclose the completed form that you mentioned for hire of the school classroom for Parish Council meetings . |
| 18 | A docker was never sure what to expect when he reported for work in the morning . |
| 19 | However , when she disappeared into the powder room at the hotel where they stopped for lunch on the way back to London and Dunbar went off to book a table in the restaurant , he and Aubrey had a moment alone together . |
| 20 | Ruth drove on to Puerto de Sóller where she stopped for refreshment on the seafront where trams rumbled behind her . |
| 21 | The crash on the A423 in Oxfordshire came as drivers headed for home after the weekend break . |
| 22 | ‘ Furious ’ then sailed for Tail o' the Bank to pick up our Atlantic anti-submarine escort . |
| 23 | When the rehearsal was finally over , they adjourned for lunch in the billiard room , where the covers on the tables had a splendid buffet laid on them . |
| 24 | Outside the old Stasi headquarters in the Lichtenberg district of East Berlin demonstrators stormed and ransacked the building and were only persuaded to stop after Modrow and New Forum round table delegates broke off their meeting and appealed for calm at the scene itself . |
| 25 | Prime Minister Narasimha Rao appealed for calm in the face of what he called a ‘ grave crisis ’ . |
| 26 | At a reception hosted by the mayor of Paris , Jacques Chirac , Yeltsin appealed for support from the West for his reforms , warning that if Russia 's economic reform plan failed , " a dictator could surface " . |
| 27 | As party chairman Sir Norman Fowler is used to being asked why … here he took his role literally … and in a keynote speech appealed for unity at the grass roots . |
| 28 | Benjamin Tillman and John McLaurin ( both Dem. , South Carolina ) , 1902 : censured for fist-fighting in the chamber . |
| 29 | When the time came for civilization on the planet of the Perks , they built war-trains , undermining engines , mole bombs . |
| 30 | And not having an appetising recipe for tinned peas , I turned for inspiration to the PM 's love of curry . |