Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] apply for [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tried to apply for a credit card , but they refused me . |
| 2 | I must have mentioned how expensive my activities were becoming , because Suzy suggested that I tried applying for a grant . |
| 3 | I had applied for an Adjournment debate on this subject , but I realised that the hon. Member for Rotherham ( Mr. Crowther ) had a prior right , representing as he does the NLVA . |
| 4 | Fields , he learned , owned a ‘ paper ’ airline , British Atlantic , which had applied for a licence to fly from Gatwick to Newark airport , New York , on an air ‘ frequency ’ which had been vacant since the collapse of Laker Airways two years before . |
| 5 | Alexa said she had applied for a modelling but had received no reply . |
| 6 | She 'd known exactly what she was getting into when she had applied for a job with the commodity brokers , McKenzie Dunton . |
| 7 | His appointment on a two-year contract will disappoint David Hobbs , the caretaker who had applied for the job on a permanent basis , but Chris Caisley , the Odsal chairman , hinted yesterday that patience might bring a reward for the Northern captain . |
| 8 | No further appeal was possible under Austrian law , but defence lawyers said that they wanted to apply for a retrial because of new expert evidence which cast doubt on their client 's conviction . |
| 9 | Even his genetic code was noted , from when he 'd applied for a work permit , but no matter how subtly Reynard interrogated , no matter how bright his ideas of lateral interrogation , every time he drew blank . |
| 10 | The Ombudsman found that the DTI committed errors in its advice to Barlow Clowes back in 1976 and if it had applied for a licence then it would not have been granted one . |
| 11 | He had applied for a grant but at the time Liverpool City Council was snowed under by applications . |
| 12 | And then , anyone who owed less than £200 had to wait for the start of the next law term in another four months if he wished to apply for the discharge which would come upon his delivering his whole property to the single creditor who had stayed with the process as long as that . |
| 13 | According to its prospectus , it intended to apply for an Act of Parliament empowering it to acquire all the land south of Downing Street , as far as Parliament Square , between St James 's Park and the river . |
| 14 | Johnson was told by his lawyers that he , the churchwardens , the Parochial Church Council and LGCM ( all of whom had applied for the faculty ) were likely to lose the case . |