Example sentences of "[vb past] for a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Stan called me and we met for a chat at his home . |
| 2 | NINE former staff at the old Williams & Glyn 's Bradford Branch were soon talking about ‘ the good old days ’ when they met for a reunion in one of the city 's wine bars . |
| 3 | Soon after his call , they met for a meal at Shoney 's Big Boy restaurant where Franks/Schafer introduced him to Burchette , who was then working from home as a one-man security service , and to Jack Terrell , a former operative of Oliver North 's in Central America . |
| 4 | Robert Bevan , one of their number , had worked at Pont-Aven and had known Paul Gauguin , and Sickert , whose sympathy with France went deep , owned a house in Neuville , on the outskirts of Dieppe , which he lent for a time to the Gilmans . |
| 5 | Without Coleman 's knowledge , and without consulting the DIA ( on this basis , they had no reason to do so ) , either Hurley or Dany Habib had subsequently used those papers — in particular , the copy they had taken of Coleman 's Thomas Leavy birth certificate — to obtain a passport for one of their own people in Egypt , thus cocking the trigger for a possible violation alert when Coleman also applied for a passport in that name two years later . |
| 6 | Not all the crew was impressed with the wild beauty however , although Dave Scadding , my number one really fell in love with Scotland , so much so that he applied for a transfer to Kirkwall on our return to Southampton . |
| 7 | He applied for a grant of land and this was sold to him for a nominal sum . |
| 8 | We applied for a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund on the basis that its support alone could save the church . |
| 9 | In the Federal Court in Sydney yesterday , a banking syndicate headed by HongkongBank Australia applied for a trustee to be appointed after Mr Bond , 53 , failed to repay about £110 million arising from a personal guarantee he gave on a loan to his former Greenvale nickel project . |
| 10 | The details of the case were outlined by prosecuting solicitor , Huw Evans , who applied for a remand in custody until next Monday . |
| 11 | At the suggestion of the Delta Commander he applied for a post at UNACO and was finally accepted six weeks later after a succession of exhaustive interviews . |
| 12 | He applied for a post in the service of the archduke : but Ferdinand was advised by his mother not to burden himself with such ‘ useless creatures who travel around all over the place , like beggars ’ . |
| 13 | He applied for a patent for his design on 26 July 1907 . |
| 14 | In the 1650s Howard evidently also developed an interest in industrial practices , and on 27 October 1660 he applied for a patent for a new method of tanning , the subject of a printed broadsheet , Brief directions how to Tanne Leather according to a new Invention ( n.d . ) . |
| 15 | In 1678 he applied for a patent for a new way of processing flax , which may have been related to investigations of this topic made under the society 's auspices in the 1660s . |
| 16 | Connolly was sentenced to one day 's imprisonment , after which he applied for a summons against the labour master for alleged assault . |
| 17 | I applied for a place at the Methodist Institution training college in London — and have heard I have been accepted . ’ |
| 18 | No because , I applied for a lot of jobs |
| 19 | It is also alleged under the name Garawand he applied for a loan of more than £40,000 to buy the house in Southfield Crescent , Stockton , where he was living . |
| 20 | And under the name of Garawand he also applied for a loan of £43,225 to buy the house in Norton , Stockton , in which he lived . |
| 21 | I applied for a job on Query and got it . |
| 22 | I applied for a job at Anglia as a news reporter . |
| 23 | His confidence grew and he applied for a job at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre at Stratford upon Avon . |
| 24 | The act of conception , staring at a typewriter for much of 1985 in a flat in Notting Hill Gate so depressed me that I immediately thereafter applied for a job as doctor for Amoco , who were then exploring for oil near Morondava . |
| 25 | After reading a letter about youths and unemployment , the gist of which was their unwillingness to work , I was incensed by the statement , ‘ Even if they applied for a job in the catering industry , it would be something ’ . |
| 26 | Rodney Hampton ran for 138 yards and Jeff Hostetler passed for a pair of touchdowns . |
| 27 | He put my felonious body in the stocks of his arm and led me off in the direction of what passed for a garden at Sussex , a series of brick-edged parallelograms that could n't have looked more artificial if they had been planted with cathode-ray tubes , instead of hardy perennials . |
| 28 | Naykene had written an article in which he alleged that all members of the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council , which ruled for a period in 1979 , had benefited from an illegal foreign loan . |
| 29 | In 1989 he led for a circuit on his only previous ride in the race , on one Kersil with Little Polveir , the eventual winner , and West Tip in close attendance . |
| 30 | Alison Berry describes how she cared for a patient with a difficult leg wound in the community |