Example sentences of "[vb past] for a [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | He applied for a grant of land and this was sold to him for a nominal sum . |
| 2 | No because , I applied for a lot of jobs |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Her output was not impressive but at least she succeeded for a couple of hours in driving the memory of Sybil 's murder into the back of her mind . |
| 6 | Do we really want to go down in history as the generation which sold for a mess of pottage the finest British companies , which have successfully built brand names and franchises of high repute over a century or more … ? |
| 7 | Allsop 's auction was a record sell-out , with all but two of 111 lots sold for a total of £6.3 million , and other auction houses reported successful sales with average prices well above the guides . |
| 8 | I told you they sold for a lot of money . |
| 9 | Bob Haboldt , who showed a mixture of Italian , French , Dutch and Flemish works mostly priced at FFr 50–150,000 , sold four , but found collectors surprised by the FFr 500,000 ( £51,500 ; $89,700 ) he was asking for a very rare study of deer by Jan Brueghel the Elder and the FFr 400,000 ( £41,200 ; $71,750 ) he expected for a study of standing men by Pietro da Cortona . |
| 10 | Like the lady who came into the shop one day and asked for a bottle of ‘ blue ’ . |
| 11 | Without consulting her , Matthew asked for a bottle of white wine to be brought . |
| 12 | Yeah he asked for a bottle of wine . |
| 13 | Secondly , the hon. Gentleman asked for a change of policy that would ensure that , before people were discharged from long-stay hospitals , proper provision was made for them in the community . |
| 14 | ‘ Asked for a bowl of warm water from the kitchen , locked his chamber and slashed his wrist . ’ |
| 15 | Auck Auckland and we went there and we went into this restaurant well believe it or not , I 've never seen food like that , I mean Joy asked for a leg of lamb , I did n't say leg of lamb , I had the cod pieces |
| 16 | They reported that they knew of no matter involving her in any way and asked for a description of the white identification cards . |
| 17 | A traveller in Scotland went into a pub and asked for a pint of bitter . |
| 18 | actually it 's a bit boring down there now but they , they had to put my , my explanation of the price of petrol er down , there 's nowhere to thing , cos th the last time I was down there I asked for a pint of bitter and this guy bought it me and said and I wanted two pound thirty or something . |
| 19 | The first petition , in July 1939 , asked for a doubling of the basic pension to £1 , and collected an estimated five million signatures during six weeks of local canvassing . |
| 20 | They looked at me apprehensively when I asked for a drink of cider or wine . |
| 21 | Gabriel knocked at the second brother 's door and asked for a drink of milk . |
| 22 | He then asked for a drink of water . |
| 23 | I tottered across to a cottage on the edge of the loch and asked for a pot of tea and a bite to eat . |
| 24 | Recently in October 1976 , her sister living in America , asked for a photograph of the old building which 1 am pleased to say was dispatched and a reply received to say she now carries it everywhere showing it to everyone . |
| 25 | Lovernius was very pleased and asked for a bag of gold and threw it to the poet who ran beside his chariot . |
| 26 | On April 16th Lord Kimball asked for a clarification of the act . |
| 27 | The developer asked for a set of QA listings to assess for himself if the person assigned to QA would approve the package . |
| 28 | Margaret inspected it and asked for a number of prints to be made . |
| 29 | So Gabriel knocked at the door of his fine large house and asked for a cup of wine . |
| 30 | She was always there , and she would tell , as she had told so often before , the remarkable story of her Jimmy , who 'd been posted as dead last December and who , six months later , had simply walked into the house , bold as you please , and asked for a cup of tea . |