Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then Swindon asked for a million pounds , Chelsea offered nothing , and Hoddle was valued at a maximum of 175 thousand pounds . |
| 2 | Rodney Hampton ran for 138 yards and Jeff Hostetler passed for a pair of touchdowns . |
| 3 | Sunderland asked for a £50,000 facility fee for admission to their match with Middlesbrough . |
| 4 | With her new role Alison qualified for a company car . |
| 5 | A NIGHTCLUB bouncer accused of murdering Marie Wilks asked for a cloth to clean his car hours after her disappearance , then asked to keep the cloth , a court was told yesterday . |
| 6 | Whitehall asked for a slower offtake of the gas , a guarantee that UK companies would share in the development of three platforms in 1990 , 1992 and 1994 , and that the natural gas liquids ( NGLs ) from Sleipner should go by UK pipelines to Flotta in the Orkneys . |
| 7 | Chris Nicholls from Plymouth asked for a Turbo The Tortoise infinite lives poke , so thanks go to W Keenan from Tyne and Wear for his/her help . |
| 8 | On 16 March 1992 Wright applied for an extension of time in which to renew his application for leave to appeal against conviction and the application was listed to be heard on the same day as Christou 's appeal . |
| 9 | I take a hotel on the rue Larbi Ben M'Hidi , formerly the rue d'Arzew where Camus lived for a while , a street of arcades and white buildings with yellow ornamentation . |
| 10 | Two years ago the 41year-old received a similar amount when his former teams of Liverpool and Arsenal met for a testimonial match . |
| 11 | Bella asked for a divorce because she was going to marry Jim . |
| 12 | They were both astonished and Lomas stopped for a moment to stare at the floor . |
| 13 | On a snowy winter 's day in 1948 , Czech communist leader Klement Gottwald posed for a photo with his inner circle . |
| 14 | Benjamin 's parent 's home was created by Richard Sylbert on a sound stage , but the underwater sequences , which Dustin practised for a week , were shot in a real outside pool with a glass wall for photographic purposes . |
| 15 | But le Havre and Cherbourg opted for a simple and austere classicism , with the new vogue for geometrical emphasis to the fore . |
| 16 | Corbett rested for an hour whilst his old friend , arms full of sheaves and rolls of parchment , searched the records of armorial bearings and heraldic designs . |
| 17 | French Foreign Minister Roland Dumas arrived for an official visit on Nov. 22 . |
| 18 | The death in December 1989 of Prime Minister Herbert Blaize allowed for a reshaping of Grenadian politics during 1990 . |
| 19 | Bella telephoned for a taxi . |
| 20 | Gorbachev returned for a second visit on Nov. 18-21 , 1988 , accompanied by the Foreign Minister , Eduard Shevardnadze , and the Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers , Vladimir Kamentsev . |
| 21 | Initially Mitterrand pressed for a rejection of the Senate 's amendments on the grounds that they amounted to an attempt to elevate the powers of the indirectly elected Senate to those of the directly elected National Assembly . |
| 22 | This maintained a trend of conciliation begun the previous year when Iran 's Majles Speaker Rafsanjani was invited to meet King Fahd during his visit to Saudi Arabia for the annual pilgrimage and Crown Prince Abdallah called for an end to the war and the submission of the two sides to ‘ just and honest mediation ’ . |
| 23 | Portugal called for an end to Indonesia 's " illegal occupation " of its former colony . |
| 24 | But as Mrs Fleetwood watched for a police car the pair stole £120 and fled . |
| 25 | Speaking before the meeting , West Belfast MP Dr Joe Hendron called for an increase in intelligence operations on loyalist paramilitaries . |
| 26 | During his visit Dumas called for an acceleration in the reform programme already under way in Laos . |
| 27 | Brazil called it a step backward in international relations and Mexico called for an immediate cessation of hostilities . |
| 28 | While Singapore was enthusiastic , Malaysia remained cautious , and Indonesia called for a greater concentration on intra-ASEAN rather than external economic relations [ for Indonesian relations with ASEAN countries see p. 37580 ] . |
| 29 | Georgina chatted for a few minutes about the qualities she considered desirable in a secretary ; she even asked Celia 's opinion . |
| 30 | Following nine years service in the RAF , Ken worked for a number of companies , before joining Haven Automation in 1979 as an instrument engineer . |