Example sentences of "[vb past] for [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ] . |
| 3 | Prime Minister John Major and Danish Prime Minister Poul Nyrup Rasmussen met for talks at 10 Downing Street today on next week 's EC summit in Copenhagen . |
| 4 | ‘ Wild ’ Charlie Mander , the British consul , and Sheriff Felipe Almodovar , the self-styled ‘ Law South of Tierra del Fuego , ’ met for talks in an attempt to reach a settlement , but tempers rose and shots were exchanged . |
| 5 | Khadafi and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak met for talks in February and June to discuss regional issues and ways of increasing co-operation in agriculture , industry , health and telecommunications . |
| 6 | Yet other Douglas robber barons continued to indulge in their own intrigues against king and country , in the ‘ almost aimless treachery ’ , as Andrew Lang describes it , which ‘ endured for centuries from the reign of David II to that of James VI ’ . |
| 7 | And , I applied for loads of jobs and nothing ever came back . |
| 8 | At the end of two years she applied for jobs with various banks and when I met her she had just been accepted as a trainee accounting technician . |
| 9 | The flames from hundreds of eruptions had once furnace-fashioned this valley and left it with rocks precariously dangling on steep hills , scattered warningly across the path , uncertainly wedged , it seemed , against the few huts which passed for homes over an ill-repaired double span of bridge which crossed the stream feeding the lake . |
| 10 | I never cared for results never cared for results at all . |
| 11 | In the summers I rode for hours on a white pedal car with a hooter and real spark plugs . |
| 12 | They often rode for hours in contented silence , remembering the good years behind them when everything had been simple and summer seemed to last for ever . |
| 13 | The anti-Dickson camp chortled for hours in the bar about how the boy ‘ spat the dummy ’ . |
| 14 | As Christ lived for others in his relationships , so we must serve others , not only in marriage , but in all our friendships and other relationships . |
| 15 | I lived for months with real friends who loved England and could not get enough to eat from her . |
| 16 | He says he did , but that was boastful invention : Bouilhet asked for salacities from Cairo , and Flaubert provided them . |
| 17 | When the Buddha lay dying , his devoted attendant Ananda asked for instructions about the Sangha , the Order of Monks . |
| 18 | It effectively halted all plans to transport aid from the port , although the EPLF 's aid arm , the Eritrean Relief Association , asked for shipments to be resumed under its control . |
| 19 | At the station he asked for directions to the industrial estate , and walked it in a quarter of an hour . |
| 20 | Wandering from house to house I asked for directions to the ruins of the palace . |
| 21 | As Gerry and his fellow villagers talked of the better days to come , a carload of American tourists pulled up in the street beside him and asked for directions to ‘ Dannygal ’ . |
| 22 | They asked for directions to Walton Hall police station . |
| 23 | In 1985 Cox 's paper was timely and asked for shifts in American Irish and British labour politics in a wholly correct way . |
| 24 | The railway was close to the turnpike road down the Onny valley in several places and the Turnpike Trustees asked for screens to be provided in 3 locations . |
| 25 | * He also asked for swabs for drying balls and replacement brushes be made at certain tees and that a brushwood boot scraper be provided ‘ as the present iron one was ‘ impossible ’ ’ . |
| 26 | In one class a research team member asked for estimates of his height ( 5′ 7½″ ) ; the estimates ranged from 4′ 3″ to 6′ 5″ . |
| 27 | So I asked for guns to be issued , and that was done . ’ |
| 28 | These were published in April 1985 as the Invitation to Promoters which asked for submissions by October of the same year . |
| 29 | Mozart , sometimes for dramatic reasons , sometimes at the request of the designer , Lorenzo Quaglio , or one of the singers , frequently asked for alterations to be made in the text which were often strongly resisted by the librettist . |
| 30 | The 1987 Assembly of the All Africa Conference of Churches asked for opportunities for Church leaders to study so that they can cope with problems cropping up everywhere . |