Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] apply for a [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | Alexa said she had applied for a modelling but had received no reply . |
| 5 | She 'd known exactly what she was getting into when she had applied for a job with the commodity brokers , McKenzie Dunton . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He had applied for a grant but at the time Liverpool City Council was snowed under by applications . |