Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Horsley asked for £500,000 . |
| 2 | The twenty-nine year old victim was standing at a bus stop on Haddington Road when a car pulled up and the driver asked for directions . |
| 3 | Baker met for talks with a three-member Palestinian delegation led by Faisal al-Husseini , director of the East Jerusalem Institute of Arab Studies , on July 21 . |
| 4 | He sounded so fiercely protective that she wondered sadly what it would be like to have a man care for her as much as Roman cared for Berenice . |
| 5 | At about 0500 on 18 October 1990 Ballycastle was under severe threat from rising flood water and Fire Brigade Headquarters asked for help in evacuating people stranded in the area . |
| 6 | However , when Bernard applied for planning permission to build a factory on the site he was turned down by the local highways department . |
| 7 | Kicking the body off his machete , Mortimer made for Carrefour , who was frantically scraping at the grave . |
| 8 | Telephone or client bidding secured the majority : ‘ The Princess of Salm with her son ’ sold for £29,000 ( $45,820 ) , est. £30–45,000 ; ‘ Monsieur de Cormainville sold for £42,000 ( $65,436 ) , est. £25–35,000 ; ‘ The Prince of Saxe-Gotha with his Tutor ’ sold for £20,000 ( $31,600 ) , est. £25–35,000 ) ; ‘ Baron de Talleyrand ’ sold for the same amount against the estimate of £20–30,000 ; ‘ Baron de Bombelles ’ sold for £18,000 ( $28,044 ) , est. £20–25,000 ; ‘ The Duke of York on a quay ’ sold for £17,000 ( $26,486 ) , estimated £20–30,000 ; and ‘ Colonel Morrison ’ sold for £13,000 ( $20,254 ) , est. £15–25,000 . |
| 9 | The anti-Dickson camp chortled for hours in the bar about how the boy ‘ spat the dummy ’ . |
| 10 | If he fixed a price with the buyer , and the buyer asked for Modigliani 's address , the painter was likely to give away his work at a lower price or offer it as a present if the purchaser was shrewd enough to take him out for a meal and a few drinks . |
| 11 | On Dec. 16 MCC applied for bankruptcy protection under Chapter 11 of the United States code of bankruptcy law and on Dec. 20 the UK High Court placed MCC in administration . |
| 12 | Interest in ‘ Classics ’ was stronger , a Stearman YPT–9 Cloudboy sold for $87,500 ; an immaculate Cessna 37 Airmaster brought in $40,000 while a recently restored Cessna 195 realised $35,000 . |
| 13 | ( Written when the Times ( on Saturday , 20 August 1983 , p. 2 ) depicted a 1923 20 h.p. ( body 1910 ) vintage Rolls Landaulette built for Lord Lonsdale by Hamshaw of Leicester , but spelt it ‘ Launderette ’ ) |
| 14 | After regrouping , William headed for Kent and London with his main army but seems to have sent detachments out into Sussex to subdue the countryside and act as a rearguard . |
| 15 | Startled , and by now more than a little frightened , Patrick headed for Foyles , hoping to lose his followers in the bookshop 's maze of nooks and corners . |
| 16 | He thought of startling Fred and Daisy with a flood of Italian when he met them off the boat train at Victoria Station , but at the sight of them his plans fled for excitement . |
| 17 | J A McGrath reports on an 11th-hour jockey switch for a strongly-fancied Aintree contenderBookmakers areprepared for £55mbetting spree |
| 18 | If it is allowed to get too hot it also produces dioxin , an unacceptable contaminant in the TCP used for manufacture of hexachlorophene . |
| 19 | in the pool where Arethusa rose for air |
| 20 | Spanish Point club spokesman , Joe Flynn , said : ‘ Ken taxied for take-off around 4 o'clock and then climbed to about 200ft . |
| 21 | In December 1990 Chandra Shekhar met for talks with Simranjit Singh Mann , leader of one of the three main Akali Dal factions [ see p. 37915 ] . |
| 22 | Originally the Wabi and Public Windows Interface announcement were to be made separately , with PWI slated for May 19 . |
| 23 | The questionnaire addressed to the Head of Department asked for information under five headings : |
| 24 | Penny asked for help but could n't bring herself to explain the cause of her depression . |
| 25 | The President asked for Dec 1 . |
| 26 | French Foreign Minister Roland Dumas postponed a visit to Syria planned for mid-December , prompting Syrian criticism of France 's Middle East policy . |
| 27 | Corbett shouted for jacks of ale , demanding they be served the landlord 's best . |
| 28 | The crash on the A423 in Oxfordshire came as drivers headed for home after the weekend break . |
| 29 | In contrast , stand-in backs Mark Evans and Darren O'Leary excelled for London while the selectors were left in no further doubt that Jason Leonard , Brian Moore and Jeff Probyn must be England 's front row to face France at Twickenham in January . |
| 30 | Stirling , Cooper and Seekings headed for Benina which they knew from past experience was a major repair base . |