Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] for [noun sg] " 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 | But this time I asked for Nurse Sally , the hyperactive Mrs Cody 's minder . |
| 4 | I mean I asked for cream when I came here . |
| 5 | So I asked for help ; I did n't like doing it but it seemed necessary . |
| 6 | The way I look at it is this : I asked for help , and they gave it . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | At last I was able to speak to Judge Kerwin , and I asked for news of my family . |
| 11 | At our first lunch I asked for canneloni to fill myself up . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | " I applied for school uniform grants for the kids , " said an unemployed woman in Barnsley with three children . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 17 | I applied for parole , and usually you get your answer a couple of weeks before the date you could be going out . |
| 18 | I applied for membership , but the day approval finally arrived , four years later , was the day we left the valley . |
| 19 | Leontyne Price sang ‘ Visse d'Arte , ’ from ‘ Tosca ’ : ‘ I lived for art and love … |
| 20 | I had no sister , I went to all-boys schools , I lived out of town , never went to parties and while for others girlfriends were the in-thing , I lived for sport . ’ |
| 21 | As I fought for bar space to order the drinks , I looked over my shoulder and caught her making hand signals to a bunch of her friends camped on the stairs leading up to the Ladies ' toilets . |
| 22 | Later came the acute attacks of asthma — and the need for Caroline to pummel me ( it 's hilarious only in retrospect ! ) as I fought for breath . |
| 23 | I fought for breath between heaves , snatching down flecks of vomit and coughing and spewing at the same time . |
| 24 | I probed for information about flights to other Alpine gateways . |
| 25 | So I mean if I , if I produced for instance si five or six masters and then people can go and do copies here and there that 's actually not a bad way of doing it . |
| 26 | A. T. I passed for Sergeant seventeen years before I got made up . |
| 27 | ‘ Ah , but he did in the annuals I got for Christmas . |
| 28 | Look what I got for mother . |
| 29 | And I shouted for daddy . |
| 30 | I tried for bail time and time again , but it just was n't on . |